Archive for April 2021

First-year students in the Food For Thought and Food class embarked on a cross-curricular Field Experience to Plant Chicago. Education Manager, Rock Evans gave the students a tour of the work done at Plant Chicago, which furthered their investigations of food origins, distribution, and economies. On the STEAM side, students got a deep understanding of…

The Food For Thought course re-directs our investigations from the interior of the self back into the world that formed our selves, with particular focus on the way our food — how we find it, grow it, nurture it, store it, and distribute it — has given rise to the structures of the world most…