Bottom-up visions for future of food growing in cities
We report on community food growing as an instance of practice-based sustainability research focused on the design of interactive systems for food growing in future cities. We present a case study with a series of workshops using speculative and participatory design approaches focused on creatively...
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| description | We report on community food growing as an instance of practice-based sustainability research focused on the design of interactive systems for food growing in future cities. We present a case study with a series of workshops using speculative and participatory design approaches focused on creatively exploring futures of urban food growing with a local neighbourhood community. Working with local grassroots communities is often perceived as more egalitarian for promoting viable long-term and embedded change in cities, yet little work has studied this approach for urban food growing. To explore how we might better articulate and conceptualize collaborative food growing futures, we discuss the creation of bottom-up visions as contestations to hegemonic narratives of power and control in cities. These are affected by, limitations of present resources and infrastructures, inability to work at scale due to lack of buy-in of stakeholders, and erroneous promises of future technologies. Through these reflections on grassroots futures as complex assemblages of social and material realities, we provoke researchers and practitioners to look at envisioning future possibilities with participants, as a web of practices and stakeholders. We further suggest that researchers and practitioners explore these interconnections through assemblages of socio-material realities and visions of high- and low-tech futures. This work is important because it provides a new approach to looking at the design of future technologies for cities and addressing systemic issues of hegemonic food systems through bottom-up actionable futures. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7e1fe23d1ef942ea88e2ba6ea347162a2024-01-08T10:01:27ZengIntellectInternational Journal of Food Design2056-65222056-65302023-05-018219922610.1386/ijfd_00059_1http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journals/ijfd/8/2Bottom-up visions for future of food growing in citiesÖzge Dilaver0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8631-2755ISNI: 0000000121965555 Northumbria UniversityWe report on community food growing as an instance of practice-based sustainability research focused on the design of interactive systems for food growing in future cities. We present a case study with a series of workshops using speculative and participatory design approaches focused on creatively exploring futures of urban food growing with a local neighbourhood community. Working with local grassroots communities is often perceived as more egalitarian for promoting viable long-term and embedded change in cities, yet little work has studied this approach for urban food growing. To explore how we might better articulate and conceptualize collaborative food growing futures, we discuss the creation of bottom-up visions as contestations to hegemonic narratives of power and control in cities. These are affected by, limitations of present resources and infrastructures, inability to work at scale due to lack of buy-in of stakeholders, and erroneous promises of future technologies. Through these reflections on grassroots futures as complex assemblages of social and material realities, we provoke researchers and practitioners to look at envisioning future possibilities with participants, as a web of practices and stakeholders. We further suggest that researchers and practitioners explore these interconnections through assemblages of socio-material realities and visions of high- and low-tech futures. This work is important because it provides a new approach to looking at the design of future technologies for cities and addressing systemic issues of hegemonic food systems through bottom-up actionable futures.https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ijfd_00059_1speculative designparticipatory designfuture citiesurban food growingtechnological futuresgrassroots communities |
| spellingShingle | Özge Dilaver Bottom-up visions for future of food growing in cities International Journal of Food Design speculative design participatory design future cities urban food growing technological futures grassroots communities |
| title | Bottom-up visions for future of food growing in cities |
| title_full | Bottom-up visions for future of food growing in cities |
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| title_short | Bottom-up visions for future of food growing in cities |
| title_sort | bottom up visions for future of food growing in cities |
| topic | speculative design participatory design future cities urban food growing technological futures grassroots communities |
| url | https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ijfd_00059_1 |
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