Timothy Seekings 

Originally from Germany and the United Kingdom, Timothy Seekings has been living in Taiwan since 2014 where he has been investigating the worlds of alternative proteins, edible insects, and food systems. He completed his PhD in Natural Resources and Environmental Studies in 2023 and is currently a post-doctoral research fellow with the Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan. He co-founded the research project C.Canteen, which continues to serve as a means to explore the farming of crickets, their culinary application, and social processes of edibility formation. He is a member of the Taiwan Edible Insects Industry Association and affiliated with the Humanities for the Environment. He is interested in sustainable food systems discourses that range from reductionist, molecular, and highly industrial conceptions of food to those that treat food as a living cultural heritage that entangle eaters with their communities, ecosystems, and traditions. In his free time, he likes to spend time working on “Home 2” his home on Taiwan’s East Coast, which also serves as a social space and homesteading project, where he and his partner currently grow over 30 edible plant species, rear crickets, keep two bantam chicken, and six Rutin chicken in addition to seven cats, a dog, and some fish. When he’s not outside or working, he maintains his “Paradigm Lost” blog at Substack where publishes experimental and creative writing.

Email: timothyseekings@gmail.com