*In the light of recent events at London Bridge, London Borough Market is no longer able to host this session. The session will now take place at The Calthorpe Project on Gray's Inn Road.

This event is part of the Unusual Suspects Festival, a unique festival of ideas, solutions and discussion which runs across different London venues from 14-16 June 2017.

This Unusual Suspects Festival session will explores the power of food to transform a place – be that a local community in England, a municipality in Spain or a city the size of London. Food is too often under-utilised as a tool of change and transformation.

At a time when stories around food are often negative, we need to highlight brilliant work that is happening across the UK and the rest of the world. Whilst on one hand, there are too many Londoner’s who wonder where their next meal is coming from, and we are at a crisis point in terms of our sustainability and food security, on the other, there are brilliant pockets of innovative examples that show how food is transforming societies all over the world.

Food is something that connects us everyday not only to each other, but also the natural world. It is therefore an incredibly powerful medium for thinking and acting collaboratively to tackle a range of social challenges.

Hosted by London Borough Market, this session will give you hope and inspiration demonstrating how our food waste can be repurposed to solve food inequality issues; how food can be used as a tool to break down barriers and build community unity, and how markets, cities, governments and companies can play a role in changing mindsets on where our food comes from.

OUR CHALLENGE TO YOU! Help us make this session unusual! Bring along you mum, your dad, your child, your partner, your colleague or anyone else who would not usually attend an event like this. We need to start talking to people we know, and people we don't, in a different way. Join us!