Food democracy in the making: Designing with local food networks

Sebastian Prost; Clara Crivellaro; Andy Haddon; Rob Comber

doi:10.1145/3173574.3173907

Food democracy in the making: Designing with local food networks

Sebastian Prost, Clara Crivellaro, Andy Haddon, Rob Comber

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Abstract

This paper introduces the concept of 'food democracy' as a theoretical framing for HCI to engage in human-food interaction. Extending existing foci of health and environmental sustainability, food democracy requires thinking through aspects of social and economic justice, and democratic governance as directions for the study and design of technologies for alternative food movements. To exemplify food democracy, we report on field observations and interviews about the opportunities and challenges for supporting the development of local food networks with communities in deprived neighbourhoods using an online direct food marketing platform. Using a food democracy framing, we identify tensions around environmental, social, and economic goals; challenges of local food businesses operating within the existing economic paradigm; and differing perspectives on ownership and governance in the network. We discuss the need for HCI to design for systems change and propose a design space for HCI in supporting food democracy movements.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Engage with CHI
Publisher	ACM
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450356206, 9781450356213
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173907
Publication status	Published - 20 Apr 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018 - Montreal, Canada Duration: 21 Apr 2018 → 26 Apr 2018

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	2018-April

Conference

Conference	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	21/04/18 → 26/04/18

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 2 Zero Hunger
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

Design
Food democracy
Local food networks
Modernism
Social justice
System change

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Prost, S, Crivellaro, C, Haddon, A & Comber, R 2018, Food democracy in the making: Designing with local food networks. in CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, vol. 2018-April, ACM, 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018, Montreal, Canada, 21/04/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173907

Food democracy in the making: Designing with local food networks. / Prost, Sebastian; Crivellaro, Clara; Haddon, Andy et al.
CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI. ACM, 2018. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2018-April).

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