Global Challenges and Man Food

Between Sept-Dec 2019, the Man Food team undertook a scoping project for some new research in the Maasai Mara, in collaboration with colleagues at the Technical University of Kenya. We looked at how local and indigenous knowledges and practices were responding to climate uncertainty, and marking a shift from traditional livestock-based pastoralism to alternative food…

Project update and summary

Things have been a little quiet on here, as the Man Food team has taken some time to work on other projects and to do more background stuff (developing new partnerships, applying for further funding, writing up, etc.). We’ve presented findings of the project at a number of conferences and seminars, and had some really…

Global Food Security blog

Project lead Emma Roe has written a blog for Global Food Security (UK cross-government programme on food security research) website, you can read it here 

Becoming an ecological citizen

Man Food was based on the ‘becoming an ecological citizen’ methodology, which seeks to connect humans and nonhumans (in this instance food animals and environments) through embodied engagements rather than purely intellectual ones. You can read more about it in the summary sheet below, or in a longer academic paper by Emma Roe and Michael Buser…

And All The Men We Saw Today Video

And All The Men We Saw Today was developed as an audio work, to be listened to on its own or in situ in Bedminster, Bristol. We have worked with film maker Simon Clode to document the walk in October 2017. There is a short trailer version here and a full length (50 minute) archive version…

Man Food Toolbox

We’re creating a toolbox that will work as a kind of DIY version of the Man Food workshops. The ideas is that individuals, groups and organisations can use it for their own purposes. It’s still a work in progress, which a partner organisation in Bristol will be trialling over the coming months. Do please have…

And All the Men soundtrack

The Man Food artists-in-residence, Joanna Young, Kip Johnson and Jamie McCarthy have worked tirelessly over the summer to produce a really beautiful and moving artistic response to the project. A guided performance audio walk around Bedminster, it weaves together voices from some of the workshop participants with broader issues around food and the environment. We had…

Bristol Events in October!

The Man Food project has been progressing well, and we’ve just finished the last of eight workshops with groups of men in Bristol. They’ve been such a rich source of discussion and reflection, and we’ve thoroughly enjoyed meeting, and cooking and talking with all of the men who’ve taken part. While we’ve yet to fully…

‘And All the Men We Saw Today’, A sensory audio walk

We’re very please to announce that Man Food has been working with three incredible artists-in-residence over the last couple of months: Joanna Young, Kip Johnson and Jamie McCarthy. They’ve been attending some of the workshops, and doing their own research and creative explorations of food and the city. They are developing a sensory audio walk…

WANTED : GYM MEN!

Are you a man? Do you exercise? Are you interested in protein? We’re running FREE Man Food workshops in Bristol to find out about food, the environment and men who exercise – whether it’s training at the gym, playing sports, a health referral, etc. We’re looking for men from a range of ethnic backgrounds and…