Irene Frassoldati Talks Nourishing Communities at NLA Breakfast Talk

Irene Frassoldati, Urban Designer, joins panel presentation and discussion on Nourishing Communities: Food at London’s Core

Irene Frassoldati joined a panel at the recent  NLA (New London Architecture) breakfast talk discussing our research project M-Nex. The research  explores the intersection between food, energy consumption and water in our cities.

She shared a platform with other stimulating  speakers including Agamemnon Otero, Co-founder and CEO, of Energy Garden, a truly inspiring network of projects across our city that offers a plethora of opportunity to engage in food growing married with energy production; Flynn Williams of Stride Treglown talking about their work on the Circular Kitchen, an initiative to provide community spaces for food growing, sharing and preparation and  Lady Lucy French, Chief Executive Officer, Fleet Street Quarter, and her work in bringing food growing actively back into the City of London.

Irene’s presentation advocates for strategic spatial planning in our cities, for this vital land use and for showing clients examples of what could be achievable “People need to see to believe” if we are to harness this opportunity to beyond a Utopian dream and instead integrate food growing into the fabric of every part of our city.

There was a call for connecting the multiple organisations that exist into a metabolic map and for our planning system to instigate a use class that recognises this vital use of our urban space.

An uplifting and inspiring start to the morning that had us all thinking about how food can nourish communities.