EDUCATION
• Doctoral Candidate since 2018 at Aalto University, Department of Design, supervisor: Prof. Mikko Jalas
Personal research grant from KONE Foundation (2021-2022)
• MAA, 2015 - The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts | Urbanism & Societal Change programme
• Bachelor of Architecture, 2013 - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna | IKA
PREVIOUS WORK
• research at Aalto University's Department of Design
• teaching in the Creative Sustainability Master's program of Aalto University
• co-founder and urban strategy lead at Atelier Kite
• at Viennese architecture practices feld72 and querkraft
• for property developers, local councils, charities and community initiatives
PUBLISHED WRITING
Fodor, K., Jalas, M. 2025. Foodscapes: Making Sense of Urban Food Provisioning Practices.
Food, Culture, & Society, 1-25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2025.2512142
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Fodor, K. 2022. 'Design at the End of the Food System: Hybrid Foodscapes in the Realm of Consumption'.
In C. Sage (Ed.), A Research Agenda for Food Systems. (pp.243-257). Edward Elgar.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800880269.00021 (link to the book) (chapter manuscript here)
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Fodor, K. 2021. The Hybridization of Food Spaces:
Changing Spatial Logics in Urban Food Systems and Prospects for Sustainable Diets.
The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. 27, 1 (Jun. 2021), 102-118. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48416/ijsaf.v27i1.83. (open access pdf here)
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Fodor, K. 2018. Lessons from launching an alternative architectural practice. Architectural Design. 88, 3 (May. 2018), 62-67
TALKS, PANELS & CONFERENCES
• RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2024 (link), Royal Geographical Society, London, 2024
• Systems Thinking for Impact at the Entrepreneurship Winter School of Aalto University, 2024
• YHYS Colloquium: Sustainable Welfare. The Spatial Implications of Food Citizenship (link), Aalto University, 2021
• Eating for 1.5°C: Round Table on Climate Change and Sustainable Diets (link), The American University of Rome, 2021
• Accommodating Urban Food Futures, Nodus Talks + Design Museum (link), Helsinki, 2021
• Sustainable Food Systems < > Sustainable Diets Conference (link) The American University of Rome, 2019
• How to Make a Just Food Future: Alternative Foodways for a Changing World Conference (link), Univeristy of Sheffield, 2019
• Future Food Symposium (link), University of Nottingham, 2019
• Sustainability Science Days: Innovations in Sustainable Food Systems (link), Aalto University, 2019
• Food & Resilient Cities: Climate Change, population growth & urban development, panel discussion at Dodo Helsinki
• New Wave Public Design: Towards a National Food Service symposium, Festival of the Mind by Sheffield University, 2018
• Life & Politics in Metropolitan Cities: Hob Hub, a Kitchen to Share, at City Living in Jätkasaari Housing Fair, Helsinki, 2018
• Urban Jigsaw: What next? talk and panel discussion, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2018
• An evening on housing and food - talk & panel discussion with Tim Lang, Carolyn Steel & Dan Hill​, Royal Academy of Arts, 2016
ORGANISING EDUCATIONAL EVENTS
Some events/symposia/courses/summer schools I've been involved in organising and hosting include:
• Systems Thinking MA Course for Aalto University, 2020-2024
• Nodus Talks series 2018-19, Design Museum Helsinki (video here)
• Welfare City Futures Symposium at Aalto University, 2019 (program here)
• EASA 2017: Hospitality, Fredericia, Denmark - an annual international architecture summer school (event site)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
• Urban Foodscapes 1.5 video installation at Designs for a Cooler Planet, Helsinki Design Week 2022
• Hob Hub: A Kitchen to Share at City Living in Jätkasaari Housing Fair, Helsinki, 2018
• Babette's Town Feast + Fredericia Food Lab at 'National Food Service Exhibition', Foodhall Sheffield, 2018
• Hackney Kitchen by Atelier Kite (Urban Jigsaw curated by Owen Hopkins) Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2016