Globalisation]]> Ecosystems]]> Sustainability]]> Venue: CREATE Tower, 1 Create Way, Theatrette, Level 2, Singapore 138602

Our present global crises oblige us to accelerate the move towards a low-carbon future. This includes the transition from a linear economy, defined by the consumption of finite resources and the accumulation of waste, to a circular economy, which redefines growth by prioritising both people and the planet. In our current linear economy, the food sector and its bio-waste accounts for the largest single component of municipal waste landfills and is a significant source of greenhouse gases such as methane. As part of a circular economy, bio-waste can bring gains linked to multiple higher-value products, such as natural fertilisers for agriculture, energy production, and even protein feed for aquaculture or farming. In this keynote address, Huerta presents the main impacts of a linear economy food system and the importance of introducing a well-functioning circular economy food system. She will focus on applying solutions from the natural world and how to implement a sustainable organic loop system.]]>
Paula Huerta]]> Asia]]> Europe]]> North America]]> South America]]> Middle East]]> Oceania]]> Africa]]>
Sustainability]]> Ecosystems]]> Venue: CREATE Tower, 1 Create Way, Theatrette Level 2, Singapore 138602

Despite all good intentions and efforts of establishing sustainable food systems to support a steadily growing global population, traditional food production systems and their associated value chains are exceeding our planetary boundaries. This talk highlights how ovel production technologies, integrated sustainabiity assessment and further data integration into national food systems through nutritional, environmental and social indicators could be a basis for a holistically developed, more sustainable food system. The focus for innovative system changes is emerging microalgae processing and production.]]>
Iris Haberkorn]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Ecosystems]]> Technology]]> Sustainability]]> Venue: CREATE Tower, 1 Create Way, Theatrette Level 2, Singapore 138602

Food science and technology has a fundamental and considerable overlap with medicine, and many clinically important applications were born out of translational food science research. Globally, the food industry generates huge quantities of agro-waste and food processing by-products that retain significant biochemical potential for upcycling into important medical applications. This review explores some distinct clinical applications that are fabricable from food-based biopolymers and substances, often originating from food manufacturing side streams. These include antibacterial wound dressings and tissue scaffolding from biopolymers cellulose and chitosan as well as antimicrobial food phytochemicals for combating antibiotic-resistant nosocomial infections. Furthermore, fermentation is discussed as the epitome of a translational food technology that unlocks further therapeutic value from recalcitrant food-based substrates and enables sustainable large-scale production of high-value pharmaceuticals, including novel fermented food-derived bioactive peptides (BPs).]]>
William Chen]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Ecosystems]]> Technology]]> William Chen]]> Ecosystems]]> Sustainability]]> To Gathering: Food Flows
Saturday, 18 February 2023
10.00am – 1.00pm
Venue: Kampung Kampus, 91 Lorong Chencharu, Singapore 769201

What does it take to make food? How can we connect with our food stories, heritage and systems in creative ways? Composed around Ground-up Initiative, a low-carbon footprint campus, this experience offers a two-part journey, beginning with a guided tour where participants get their hands dirty through composting and harvesting, followed by a creative exercise exploring how we can deal with loss and bounty in the systems that sustain us—so that we can sustain them. To Gathering is a series by Brack, a Singapore-based platform for socially engaged artists in Southeast Asia who are interested in dialogical exchanges across mediums, disciplines, and communities.]]>
Alecia Neo]]> Madhumitha Ardhanari]]> Southeast Asia]]>
Ecosystems]]> Sustainability]]> Indigenous Knowledge]]> Raine Melissa Riman]]> Southeast Asia]]> Sustainability]]> Ecosystems]]> Hear Artist-in-Residence Wang Ruobing share about her art practice focused on our relationship with the environment around us. During this residency, Ruobing is continuing her ongoing investigation into the marine coastline ecosystem. By experimenting with found objects and collaborations, she intends to uncover new reflections and narratives on our current way of living.]]> Wang Ruobing]]> Southeast Asia]]> Sustainability]]> Ecosystems]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Magdalena Magiera]]> Postcard]]> Southeast Asia]]> Asia]]> Europe]]> Sustainability]]> Ecosystems]]> Ute Meta Bauer]]> Magdalena Magiera]]> Southeast Asia]]> Asia]]> Europe]]> Biodiversity]]> Botany]]> Ecology]]> Ecosystems]]> The Anthropocene]]> 4 October 2021 - 31 March 2022
NTU CCA Singapore]]>
Chua Chye Teck]]> Southeast Asia]]>