Tuesday, May 11, researchers from F2G discussed public space during social distancing, with two other HERA projects; PUTSPACE and SPAS. This was the third in a series of webinars by HERA. “Rethinking public spaces in times of social distancing” was organized by three HERAnet projects: PUTSPACE, SPAS and FOOD2GATHER. A presentation of the webinar can […]
FOOD2GATHER, together with other HERA projects PUTSPACE and SPAS, will hold a webinar on ‘rethinking public spaces in times of social distancing’. All interested are welcome to join! Please click here to read more about the event and to register. Keynote speakers are Laurent Thévenot (École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) and F2G’s Rick […]
Researchers from FOOD2GATHER attended the conference Migrant belongings: digital practices and everyday life this year, which took place digitally 21st-23 April. The F2G project investigates the roles that food play in creating public spaces and shaping communication and relations between places and the people who inhabit them. For this conference, we thus organised a panel […]
On October 22nd and 23rd, we organized our annual FOOD2GATHER meeting. These two days were the opportunity for us to meet up, share our ideas, to discuss our research advances, and to plan our future activities. However, this time, we were not able to enjoy sunny Italy or its delicious cuisine between our two intensive […]
(Scroll down for the text in Italian) Today is October 4, 2020, the high tide slips through the streets of Venice silently, the streets turned into canals. These water canals look like the old streams I saw as a child in Afghanistan or those canals that carried the weight of water helping the peasants in […]
The European Sociological Association’s (ESA) midterm conference for the consumption research network kicked off late August on Zoom, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. FOOD2GATGHER had a designated roundtable to discuss the use of foodscapes in researching migration and public spaces. The roundtable started with some presentations of FOOD2GATHER members (Gun Roos, Laura Terragni and Helene […]
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Food can create contact between people and places. Just look at popular food festivals or food markets. The EU financed project, FOOD2GATHER, is coordinated by OsloMet and is simply put about public spaces, people and food as an arena for integration…
The European Sociological Association’s midterm conference for the consumption research network kicked off late August. The conference took place online, at Zoom, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. FOOD2GATGHER had a designated roundtable to discuss the use of foodscapes in researching migration and public spaces. The roundtable started with some presentations of FOOD2GATHER members Gun Roos, […]
The FOOD2GATHER project kicked off with the first official meeting spanning over two sunny and eventful days in Oslo. Click here to read the project’s students and junior researchers’ experiences of the kickoff.