Evoluzione del concept food design: intersezioni storiche tra cibo, design e cultura alimentare occidentale

Il saggio propone una riflessione di ampio respiro sui temi dello sviluppo tecnologico nel settore alimentare e del suo rapporto con la società e i territori, evidenziando il ruolo delle ideologie e della critica del design: sia attraverso la lettura dei fenomeni da parte di esperti, sia di comunità che hanno espresso attività culturalmente mediate e situate nel quadro del sistema globalizzato del cibo. Il saggio nel suo complesso delinea l’evoluzione del rapporto design e alimentazione dalla seconda metà dell’800 all’attualità, nel contesto italiano e del Nord America. Gli esempi qui presentati dimostrano come la transizione verso una società di massa abbia fornito un ambiente fertile per far interagire il mondo del cibo e quello del design. Nel suo sviluppo, il food design si è andato consolidando come un ambito di studi interdisciplinare che nel rispetto della diversa natura culturale dei contesti ha individuato appropriate linee di ricerca. Rispetto al passato, la contemporaneità propone una realtà in cui le culture contestuali si ibridano e in cui convivono la dimensione locale e quella globale, il naturale e il tecnologico, l’analogico e il digitale, l’industriale e l’artigianale. Aumentano gli spazi del progetto in cui studiosi del cibo e del design (assieme a esperti di altre discipline) possono trovare un terreno comune di studi per contribuire con responsabilità alla diffusione di culture alimentari più sostenibili e meno dannose per le generazioni future

Transformational design for food systems: cultural, social and technological challenges

Due to climate changes, resources availability and evolving markets, the food system is developing towards an articulated and complex ecology, with fast transformations occurring in food production, preparation, delivery and disposal. In this context, innovation is needed not just to ideate solutions to deal with a fast-changing system but also to accompany the change adopting a systemic long-term approach. We reflect on the transformational potential of design in the food sector enabled by digital technologies, one of the current major drivers of change. We define two levels of changes implying digital technologies, those that radically change the food system and those enabling changes within a given system. These levels are exemplified with case studies documented in literature and with students’ projects showing how transformational design can help grasp the complexity of current problems, and question the current status quo by facilitating a dialogue among stakeholders to stimulate behaviour change without prescribing it. In this article we encourage a paradigm shift of design from craft activity to a holistic approach of systemic thinking where the designer assumes the role of promoter and facilitator of change. Reflections on challenges at cultural, social and technological levels are provided in the conclusion section

Framework for LL facilitation and data production

The Deliverable 5.1 “Framework for LL facilitation and data production” is intended for all Living Labs and all DIVINFOOD project partners. This document provides a framework to situate LLs’ definition and contribution to the overall aim of the DIVINFOOD project. It orients LL coordinators throughout the setting up and development of living lab interactions, experiments and data collection. It also suggests tools to support LL facilitation and interactions at local level

Designing digital technologies for sustainable transformations of food systems

This Special Issue focuses on exploring the latest trends in the use of information technology to cope with emerging societal transformations on the food system and its interrelations. It aims to be a starting point, especially to show what a key role designers play today in the ongoing transformation process and transition of food systems. It shows that the great challenge of digital innovation in the food sector is to re-design not only the products, but also the services and processes imposed by the ongoing digital transformation

Integrating Sustainability-Oriented Ecologies of Practice Across the Learning Cycle:Supporting Transformative Behaviours in Transgenerational, Transnational and Transdisciplinary Spaces

The article examines the complexities associated with effectively and comprehensivelytackling the climate change crisis. Focusing on the need for education, the authorsdiscuss a model of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) that supports the deve-lopment of competencies, coalition building and the capacity to support and maintainpositive action. Drawing upon principles highlighted by the United Nations, the paperoutlines the breadth and depth of knowledge required to support transformative ESD.Firstly enhancing comprehensive knowledge that develops cognitive, affective and axiolo-gical dimensions and proficiency. This enhances critical engagement with informationand enables individuals to act responsibly and align with others in coalition building.The second element refers to collaborative partnership that is crucial for changes to beeffective. This has been one of the most challenging barriers preventing positive actionon the catastrophe pf climate change. Finally, the paper emphasizes the need to develop the competencies for supporting collective action, which will enable sustained actionacross transnational, transdisciplinary and transnational boundaries

Integrating Sustainability-Oriented Ecologies of Practice Across the Learning Cycle: Supporting Transformative Behaviours in Transgenerational, Transnational and Transdisciplinary Spaces

The article examines the complexities associated with effectively and comprehensively tackling the climate change crisis. Focusing on the need for education, the authors discuss a model of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) that supports the development of competencies, coalition building and the capacity to support and maintain positive action. Drawing upon principles highlighted by the United Nations, the paper outlines the breadth and depth of knowledge required to support transformative ESD. Firstly enhancing comprehensive knowledge that develops cognitive, affective and axiological dimensions and proficiency. This enhances critical engagement with information and enables individuals to act responsibly and align with others in coalition building. The second element refers to collaborative partnership that is crucial for changes to be effective. This has been one of the most challenging barriers preventing positive action on the catastrophe pf climate change. Finally, the paper emphasizes the need to develop the competencies for supporting collective action, which will enable sustained action across transnational, transdisciplinary and transnational boundaries.</p

Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress

In 2018 we celebrated 25 years of development of radar altimetry, and the progress achieved by this methodology in the fields of global and coastal oceanography, hydrology, geodesy and cryospheric sciences. Many symbolic major events have celebrated these developments, e.g., in Venice, Italy, the 15th (2006) and 20th (2012) years of progress and more recently, in 2018, in Ponta Delgada, Portugal, 25 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry. On this latter occasion it was decided to collect contributions of scientists, engineers and managers involved in the worldwide altimetry community to depict the state of altimetry and propose recommendations for the altimetry of the future. This paper summarizes contributions and recommendations that were collected and provides guidance for future mission design, research activities, and sustainable operational radar altimetry data exploitation. Recommendations provided are fundamental for optimizing further scientific and operational advances of oceanographic observations by altimetry, including requirements for spatial and temporal resolution of altimetric measurements, their accuracy and continuity. There are also new challenges and new openings mentioned in the paper that are particularly crucial for observations at higher latitudes, for coastal oceanography, for cryospheric studies and for hydrology. The paper starts with a general introduction followed by a section on Earth System Science including Ocean Dynamics, Sea Level, the Coastal Ocean, Hydrology, the Cryosphere and Polar Oceans and the ‘‘Green” Ocean, extending the frontier from biogeochemistry to marine ecology. Applications are described in a subsequent section, which covers Operational Oceanography, Weather, Hurricane Wave and Wind Forecasting, Climate projection. Instruments’ development and satellite missions’ evolutions are described in a fourth section. A fifth section covers the key observations that altimeters provide and their potential complements, from other Earth observation measurements to in situ data. Section 6 identifies the data and methods and provides some accuracy and resolution requirements for the wet tropospheric correction, the orbit and other geodetic requirements, the Mean Sea Surface, Geoid and Mean Dynamic Topography, Calibration and Validation, data accuracy, data access and handling (including the DUACS system). Section 7 brings a transversal view on scales, integration, artificial intelligence, and capacity building (education and training). Section 8 reviews the programmatic issues followed by a conclusion

Altimetry for the future: building on 25 years of progress

In 2018 we celebrated 25 years of development of radar altimetry, and the progress achieved by this methodology in the fields of global and coastal oceanography, hydrology, geodesy and cryospheric sciences. Many symbolic major events have celebrated these developments, e.g., in Venice, Italy, the 15th (2006) and 20th (2012) years of progress and more recently, in 2018, in Ponta Delgada, Portugal, 25 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry. On this latter occasion it was decided to collect contributions of scientists, engineers and managers involved in the worldwide altimetry community to depict the state of altimetry and propose recommendations for the altimetry of the future. This paper summarizes contributions and recommendations that were collected and provides guidance for future mission design, research activities, and sustainable operational radar altimetry data exploitation. Recommendations provided are fundamental for optimizing further scientific and operational advances of oceanographic observations by altimetry, including requirements for spatial and temporal resolution of altimetric measurements, their accuracy and continuity. There are also new challenges and new openings mentioned in the paper that are particularly crucial for observations at higher latitudes, for coastal oceanography, for cryospheric studies and for hydrology. The paper starts with a general introduction followed by a section on Earth System Science including Ocean Dynamics, Sea Level, the Coastal Ocean, Hydrology, the Cryosphere and Polar Oceans and the “Green” Ocean, extending the frontier from biogeochemistry to marine ecology. Applications are described in a subsequent section, which covers Operational Oceanography, Weather, Hurricane Wave and Wind Forecasting, Climate projection. Instruments’ development and satellite missions’ evolutions are described in a fourth section. A fifth section covers the key observations that altimeters provide and their potential complements, from other Earth observation measurements to in situ data. Section 6 identifies the data and methods and provides some accuracy and resolution requirements for the wet tropospheric correction, the orbit and other geodetic requirements, the Mean Sea Surface, Geoid and Mean Dynamic Topography, Calibration and Validation, data accuracy, data access and handling (including the DUACS system). Section 7 brings a transversal view on scales, integration, artificial intelligence, and capacity building (education and training). Section 8 reviews the programmatic issues followed by a conclusion

Book Review

Abstract DESIGN FOR FOOD AND NUTRITION, ADIPER (2015) Milan: ADIper srl, 247 pp., ISBN: 9788894033922, p/bk, €3

Obsession with future food. Reflections on the role of time in food design

This paper briefly details how during the lockdown in 2020 in Italy, ElleDecor (a renowned architecture and design magazine) wanted to hold an exhibition on food and design. Because of Covid-19, the FabFood exhibition was completely developed online (https://fabfood.elledecor.it/). The show aimed to feed the international debate on the inequities and paradoxes that characterize the agri- food system and to raise doubts and generate ideas for the current research in food design. Autoctonario, a South American project is presented as part of the exhibition. Inspired by the exhibition concept, this article concludes by providing five contemporary ideas of time and responsibility for the future of food design