Provocations: What will we eat in the future?

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Provocations: What will we eat in the future?

01 Apr 2026
06:30pm - 07:45pm
$10
RMIT Storey Hall, 336/348 Swanston St, Melbourne

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As climate change, population growth, and ecological collapse reshape how we produce and consume food, we need to think outside the (lunch) box to find solutions.

Our dynamic panel, hosted by ABC presenter Hilary Harper, will discuss food systems, waste, packaging experts and inventive cooks as they explore what we'll be eating in the future, and how food security, food sovereignty, nutrition and wellbeing are interconnected and dependent.

How can we eliminate food waste, recycle and extend food life, and secure food systems in the face of the climate emergency, a plastics dependence, and a tumultuous water-energy-food nexus? What does the future of food taste and smell like and who gets to decide what's put on our plates?

Learn what's simmering in food science, what's sizzling in food and packaging innovation, and rethink the main course on the dinner plates of the future.

Speakers

Bruce Pascoe, Aboriginal farmer and writer of literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays and children's literature. His publications have won numerous awards including the groundbreaking, bestselling book Dark Emu
Ben Shewry, internationally renowned chef, restaurateur, and creative obsessive. Owner of Attica in Melbourne and writer of the books Origin and Uses for Obsession
Bhavna Middha, sustainable consumption scholar and Deputy Associate Director of the Regenerative Environments and Climate Action Theme at RMIT's School of Global, Urban and Social Studies
Natalie Jovanovski, health sociologist and Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow in RMIT's School of Health and Biomedical Sciences and Social Equity Research Centre (SERC)

This event is part of Provocations – RMIT University's Talks and Ideas series.

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RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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