17 Jun

Zoom

Communication, imagination, and collaboration in climate response

Field with crops. Two persons in the background.

We welcome researchers, other staff and students within and outside of SLU to this webinar in SLU's series of "Climate Conversations" hosted by SLU Global, SLU Future Food and SLU Urban Futures. On this occasion, the focus will be on communication, imagination, and creative collaboration in Swedish climate response.

Target audience: We welcome researchers, other staff and students within and outside SLU with an interest in these questions.

Despite growing awareness of climate-related risks in Swedish food production, adaptation planning still overlooks key voices and fails to ensure adequate flows of knowledge within and across sectors. This webinar held as part of SLU's Climate Conversations will explore this topic in talks from three SLU speakers – and open discussion with attendees – on the knowledge needs of farmers, the role of creativity in municipal collaboration on food preparedness, and how collective visions of the future – referred to as "imaginaries" – can each be harnessed to inform climate adaptation governance.

Speakers: 

  • Christoffer Söderlund Kanarp, Department of Urban and Rural Development; Division of Environmental Communication, SLU – "How government authorities in Sweden make sense of adaptation – and the role of global imaginaries in adaptation governance"
  • Kristina Blennow, Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, SLU – "Knowledge needs for effective communications with Swedish farmers on climate change adaptation"
  • Andrew Gallagher, Department of People and Society, SLU – ”Sustainability, resilience, preparedness? Implementing approaches to complex food system challenges in Swedish municipalities”

The talks will be followed by an open discussion with speakers and attendees, moderated by Paul Egan, SLU Global and Håkan Jönsson, Food and Cities.

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Facts

Time: 2025-06-17 10:00 - 11:30
City: Zoom
Organiser: SLU Global, SLU Future Food and Urban Futures
Additional info:

Food and cities

Food & Cities is a collaboration between SLU Future Food and SLU Urban Futures. The project communicates SLU’s existing research and aims to create new encounters between different disciplines and sectors. The project seeks to identify knowledge gaps and cross-disciplinary research questions and investigates how a long-term thematic focus on food and cities could be established at SLU.   

SLU Global is a unit at the Vice-Chancellor's Office that supports and facilitates the university's efforts to collaborate with low-income countries and regions, based on the Global Goals of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.

SLU Future Food is a platform that stimulates and develops cross-disciplinary research and collaboration for economically, ecologically and socially sustainable food systems.

SLU Urban Futures is a strategic platform that develops and strengthens transdisciplinary research, education and collaboration in sustainable urban development.

Climate conversations at SLU: SLU Global and SLU’s four Future Platforms promote scientific climate conversations at SLU. There are webinars and seminars open for all and some events for SLU staff only.


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