For folk heading to the 50th Anniversary DRS 2016 Conference in Brighton, on Monday June 27 (9am), Adrian Friday, Roger Whitham and Myself are running a half-day workshop on Food Design for Sustainability.
This workshop responds to several interlinked global challenges in global warming, obesity, health and waste, of which food has made a significant contribution. Participants will gain insight into the challenges of ‘sustainable food design’.
This workshop aims to explore the design space of food, and asks the question whether and how this can be shaped to reduce environmental impacts and promote health by design. The workshop is separated into 3 parts:
Part 1: Introduction to the problem space (at the conference site venue): An initial conversation and presentation from facilitators and participants introduce past work within the space, and provide participants with a dataset and brief for the day (small teams are formed).
Part 2: Ideation session: A hackathon/rapid prototyping/ideation session. This session builds on the recent dataset compiled by the facilitators (containing the Global Warming Potential and nutritional values for over 170 food types). The design work aims to address two questions: A – what does a healthy and sustainable diet look like? and B – how can this be facilitated via design?
Part 3: reflection and synthesis: presentation, synthesis and discussion of findings, and identification of potential ways forward.
The workshop aims to present and build upon work undertaken by the facilitators, including theoretical insights from: Life Cycle Assessment; Design for Behavioural change; and Social Practice Theory, as well as practical insights from a wide range of food related research projects. This includes: sustainable food shopping; packaging design to reduce food waste; empirical monitoring of student cooking habits; community food growing; app design for environmental food purchases; and design studios that have engaged in the above thematics.
Please register at http://www.drs2016.org/workshops (lots of other exciting workshops here as well) by June 20th (today).
Looking forward to the 50th Anniversary DRS Conference!
Stephen, Adrian and Roger
Dr Stephen Clune
Senior Lecturer Sustainable Design
ImaginationLancaster
LICA Building
+44 (0) 1524 510792
http://imagination.lancs.ac.uk/people/Stephen_Clune
Latest paper:
Clune, S., Crossin, E., Verghese, K., 2016. Systematic review of greenhouse gas emissions for different fresh food categories. Journal Cleaner Production doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.04.082
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