Feasting on Participatory Methodologies for Regenerative Food Transitions

Abstract

Food is key to our lives. It nourishes us, shapes our social interactions and, as a quintessentially more-than-human concern, connects us to other species and the planet. The ways we eat both shape and are shaped by pressing social and environmental challenges that we must attend to if we are to collectively flourish. The purpose of this workshop is to gather researchers who use participatory and co-design (PD) methods, around a hybrid (virtual and real-world) table, to explore how we approach food in our transformational design research and practice aiming to nourish regenerative-socially and ecologically just-futures. In the workshop, we will share, feast on, and digest our methodological practices and approaches, with the objective to enrich each other's work, and co-construct a firmer methodological foundation for participatory food design and research.