Food Matters & Materialities Conference

A cover of the Food Matters & Materialities: Critical Understandings of Food Cultures conference program. The cover has the texture of brown craft paper with a small bundle of mushrooms in the bottom right corner. At the top reads "Online Conference September 22–25, 2021," while the title of the conference is in large bold writing in the centre of the cover.

The Food Matters & Materialities Conference took place virtually in September 2021. My role with the conference was to design all visual content, including plenary posters, Twitter presence, website, virtual meeting space (via QiqoChat), programs, and outreach materials, as well as to help host conference panels via Zoom.

All programs and posters were designed with colour contrast accessibility in mind and use interactive hyperlinks to help users navigate within the documents.

Posters & Programs

A selected page from the conference program highlighting the conference's keynote speakers, Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart and Emily Yates-Doerr.

A selected page from the conference program highlighting the program at-a-glance. Within is a table for the panels and plenaries scheduled for the conference. — Download the program at-a-glance here.

Outreach Materials

Conference reporters also wrote individual outreach materials on various panels and presentations. I illustrated each piece and formatted it for sharing via the conference website. View all outreach materials here.

A sketched illustration of a fist in the air holding a bunch of carrots and a cast-iron frying pan. They are surrounded by peppercorns, anise, and hot peppers. — Illustration for “Food as a Form of Resistance: Fighting Back Against Social & Environmental Injustices” by Lalla Maiga and Grace Ingraham.

An illustration of eggs, bananas, almonds, and an avodado, each in their own speech bubble. — Illustration for “Are There Any Absolute or Universal Truths When it Comes to Food?” by Fleur Esteron, Myriam Durocher & Kathy Dobson.

Virtual Meeting Space

We turned to Qiqochat, a highly customizable web intermediary for Zoom, to help speakers and participants navigate the virtual space of the conference. We designed this interface to fit with the conference’s other visual presences.