T-lab Workshops

How do we transform the Cape Metropolitan food system into one which is sustainablie and secure? This is the essential question which has birthed the T-lab; a series of workshops gathering stakeholders from various spheres and backgrounds in order to imagine ways to shift a system in crisis.

By bringing together a diverse group of actors that are actively engaged in creating alternatives in the food industry, such as

restaurateurs and chefs, producers, informal food traders, indigenous food foragers, food scientists, and academics, the T-lab sought to create bridges between people that would never otherwise have interacted.

Hosted by the Centre for Sustainability Transitions (CST) and the Southern Africa Food Lab, a number of T-labs have been held in order to  empower and inform participants.

Read more about recent T-lab events here, here and here.

Read more in our reports:

• T-Labs for Alternative Food Systems in the Western Cape
• T-lab for Coastal Wild Foods in the Western Cape, South Africa
• Sustainability Science (2022): Leveraging the potential of wild food for healthy, sustainable, and equitable local food systems: learning from a transformation lab in the Western Cape region
• Design-thinking workshop: Social entrepreneurs and co-construction with beneficiaries
• and in this article which explores Coming to terms with the messiness of T-Labs.