**ABOUT THE PROJECT**
In the UK our food system is unsustainable with production, distribution, and consumption accounting for 27% of total direct greenhouse gas emissions. The Internet has had a huge impact on food in terms of how it is distributed, but also how we share knowledge and skills about things like cooking and growing using online community platforms. In recent years, there has been a repopularising of sustainable food practices, including dietary choices and urban food growing on allotments and in back yards, and many online resources exist for supporting these. However, little research has studied how digital technologies mediate food practices and transitions to sustainable living. This is a particularly important question given the scale of impact required for mitigating harmful climate change, and the potential scale for social change offered by online social computing platforms.
This research would study human-computer interaction between the design of social computing technologies concerned with growing, procuring, and cooking food and the everyday practices that they support and influence. In particular, it will seek to understand how factors of interaction design affect engagement and the dissemination of knowledge and skills required for alternative forms of consumption. Essentially, understanding how design affects community participation, and the scope and ability for carrying out sustainable food practices between the online and offline worlds. The research will include an exploration of the urban and digital design space of sustainable food through prototyping and participatory design. This will explore, for example, different ways of capturing, presenting and distributing information and ways of doing food (cooking, growing, procuring) through social interactions in online and offline communities, and how digital technologies can support distributed community participation in food practices.
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