SEeD for Change: The Systemic Event Design Project Applied to Terra Madre Salone del Gusto for the Development of Food Communities

Franco Fassio, Marcello Bogetti, Damiano Cortese () and Alessandra Savina ()
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Franco Fassio: University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo, 12042 Cuneo, Italy
Marcello Bogetti: LabNET SAA School of Management, University of Turin, 10124 Torino, Italy
Damiano Cortese: Foreign Languages and Literature and Modern Cultures, University of Turin, 10124 Torino, Italy
Alessandra Savina: University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo, 12042 Cuneo, Italy

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 24, 1-21

Abstract: In the contemporary era, food plays a key role in balancing environmental, social, and economic balances, not only due to its primary identity as a resource that nourishes living beings and the planet but also through the processes triggered by stakeholders who act at the internal local food systems. In the latter, an orientation towards sustainability is increasingly urgently required, capable of achieving a widespread creation of shared value. In this scenario, the International Slow Food Association operates, which also, through the Terra Madre Salone del Gusto initiative, coordinates communities and events located throughout the world on the theme of “good, clean and fair” food. This article aims to analyze, through the lens of the systemic approach, the interesting and multifaceted impacts of this event, as an opportunity to disseminate and contagion of ideas, attitudes, and behaviors around the themes of sustainability and biodiversity, but also as a moment of consolidation and creation of relationships between and within local food systems and local communities. The research project presented, entitled “SEeD for Change”, was coordinated by the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo with the University of Turin and helped to focus on the actors, relationships and contexts that actually and virtually hosted the event: places in which through a common and shared language, change has been generated.

Keywords: systemic food events; local food community; systemic design; slow food; international and local food networks; food awareness; sustainable food systems; food consumer behavior; food community governance; food events in COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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