Carolyn Steel
Author, Hungry City and Sitopia
Carolyn Steel is a leading thinker on food and cities. A London-based architect and academic, she wrote the award-winning books Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives (2008) and Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World (2020). Her concept of sitopia, or food-place (from Greek sitos, food + topos, place) has gained international recognition across a broad range of fields in design, ecology, academia and the arts.
Carolyn studied architecture at Cambridge University and has since taught at Cambridge, London Metropolitan University, Wageningen University, Slow Food University (Pollenzo) and at the London School of Economics, where she was inaugural studio director of the Cities Programme. Her lecture series Food and the City, delivered at Cambridge between 2002-12, was the first of its kind.
Carolyn is a non-executive director of Kilburn Nightingale Architects in London and a trustee of the Oxford Food Symposium. She writes and broadcasts regularly about food, cities and culture and is in international demand as a speaker. Her 2009 TEDGlobal talk has received more than one million views.
Carolyn will deliver the Congress Keynote on Wednesday 11 June.
