A Foodscape for Equity, Ecology, and Circular Economy |
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Presented by Ellee Igoe
A UC San Diego course | A free event open to the public
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San Diego has more small, organic, woman-owned farms than any county in the United States and less than 2% of what our farms grow is consumed locally. Within this abysmal statistic is a fantastic invitation to re-envision our local food system and re-define who gets access to healthful foods, how we interact with the land, and who owns our supply chain. This talk will explore concrete examples of how the farmers, eaters, and allies of Foodshed Cooperative are leveraging public/private partnerships to take on climate change, address health equity, and cultivate viable small businesses so that our region can actualize food justice for all.
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Ellee co-founded Solidarity Farm, a small, diversified fruit and vegetable operation in 2012 and began exploring carbon sink farming methods after a historic heat event in 2015 decimated their crops. In 2019, she helped co-host a Carbon Sink Convergence that inspired the establishment of Foodshed San Diego, a farmer-owned cooperative dedicated to ecological, climate-smart farming and supporting small farm businesses to nourish San Diego’s historically marginalized communities.
She is now Foodshed’s operations coordinator and works for the County of San Diego CalFresh Healthy Living Team as a Small Farm Aggregation Specialist. Ellee has an MA in community and regional planning from the University of Oregon.
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Design and Politics in Transition |
Faculty Hosts: Lilly Irani, Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió |
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Lilly Irani is an associate professor of communication and science studies at the University of California, San Diego, where she also serves as faculty in the Design Lab, Institute for Practical Ethics, and Critical Gender Studies program. Her interdisciplinary research examines the cultural politics of high-tech work, focusing on how innovation cultures are produced and contested. Drawing on her background in computer science and design, Irani explores the intersections of technology, labor, and development, particularly in South Asia and global AI economies. She is the author of Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India (Princeton University Press, 2019), which received the 2020 International Communication Association Outstanding Book Award and the 2019 Diana Forsythe Prize. Irani co-founded Turkopticon, a platform advocating for digital labor rights, and contributes to fields such as science and technology studies and human-computer interaction. Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship, and the National Science Foundation.
Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió is an assistant professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at UC San Diego. He co-directs the Just Transitions Initiative, is a member of the Indigenous Futures Institute, and serves on the faculty of the Design Lab. His research explores the architectural and urban history of modernism in the Americas, emphasizing intersections of technology, law, geopolitics, labor, and capitalism from the 19th to 20th centuries. Shvartzberg Carrió earned his Ph.D. in architecture from Columbia University, an M.A. in aesthetics and politics from CalArts, and both a B.Sc. and M.Arch from University College London. Professionally, he has worked with prominent firms like OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Barozzi Veiga, and David Chipperfield Architects. His scholarship has been supported by institutions such as the Getty Research Institute and the Graham Foundation, and he has contributed to exhibitions including the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. At UC San Diego, he teaches courses on architecture, geopolitics, and design praxis for equitable transitions.
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Design@Large will return in Fall 2025. Stay tuned for updates! |
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A course. An event. A community service. |
The Design@Large speaker series highlights a different central theme within design during each fall, winter, and spring quarters to inspire attendees and showcase the brightest minds tackling issues impacting humanity. Design@Large is a course at UC San Diego and is also open to the public as a way of sharing cutting-edge research an innovative insights with a wider audience. General registration opens two weeks before each event on our Eventbrite page.
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