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What opportunities exist within the Downtown Tulane campus footprint and Central Business District to demonstrate, experiment, and integrate food and non-food productive green infrastructure into the urban landscape? What impacts would these initiatives have on the environment (heat island effect, stormwater management), safety (heat-related deaths, vandalism), public health (air quality, food access), and aesthetics (real estate value, tourism)? Join Dr. Fiona Yeudall, community stakeholders and researchers to explore how New Orleans can address the negative impacts of climate change while fostering a thriving local and regional food system and more equitable access to local, healthy, and sustainably grown food.

PRESENTERS

Dr. Fiona Yeudall, PhD RD, is the Director of the School of Nutrition and Associate Director of the Centre for Studies in Food Security at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her work focuses on sustainable livelihoods, food systems, and food & nutrition security. She will be sharing her experience promoting urban agriculture in Toronto, including the rooftop farm at Toronto Metropolitan University, as part of the Carrot City project(https://www.torontomu.ca/carrotcity/index.html).

Dr. Melissa Fuster is an associate professor in the Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and a social entrepreneurship professor at the Taylor Center for Social Innovation Innovation and Design Thinking. Her work examines the contextual factors influencing food practices and the policies and interventions implemented to improve them, with a current focus on urban food environments and local food access.

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This Design Dialogue is part of the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine “Green Infrastructure, Food Systems and Building Climate Resilience in New Orleans” symposium, taking place Thursday, October 10th. For more information about this event and to register, please visit: https://sph.tulane.edu/climate-change-gulf-south-symposium. Design Dialogue attendees are strongly encouraged to attend this earlier event, as it will shape our conversation!

ABOUT THE DESIGN DIALOGUE SERIES

Design Dialogues is a speaker series hosted by the Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking. Speakers from various fields share the way they approach changemaking, design thinking, design justice, and systems change. Sessions are often interactive, hands-on, and always inspiring.