Full Description
This book explores the process of food migration, adaptation, and connections to cultural identities through the lens of food design research. Using design practice and methodology, it creates an awareness for the health and well-being of humanity's ecosystems through identity and adaptation.
The book examines the evolving relationship between people and food, exploring how food transforms when it migrates to new cultures, adapting to local environments, ingredients, and practices. This leads to the creation of hybrid cultural practices and identities. Food adaptation affects the three integrated aspects of personal, social, and environmental connectivity, shaping individual and national identities while influencing sustainable food choices and practices. The book analyses food transformation from these three integrated perspectives, using examples from a variety of global contexts. Key questions include how food adaptation reconciles with new identities and the impact of cultural memories on food practices, and how can food design promote sustainable, transformative food cultures? Contributors from diverse backgrounds will use design to question and foster the awareness of food's role in human health, well-being, environmental sustainability and ecology.
The Transformative Nature of Food will be of value to academics and postgraduate students in food design, cultural studies, and environmental sustainability programmes, as well as to professionals in cultural and non-profit sectors. Government agencies focused on migration, tourism, agriculture, and local development will also find this research valuable for policy and programme development.
Contents
Expert precis 1: Introduction 1. Introduction: The connecting identities of food Section 1: Personal food experience: Food design, identities, and belonging Expert precis 2: The saying "You are what you eat" should be changed to "You belong to the food you eat" 2. Food memories within urban interiors of marketplaces 3. Flavours of resilience: Culinary improvisation, heritage, and cultural sustainability 4. Multispecies collaboration in food textile art 5. Performing with technology and food in Lithuania Section 2: Social: Paradoxes of food systems and climate change Expert precis 3: Food design and belonging 6. Teaching transformation design through food: Shifting from user-centred to humanity-centred approaches 7. Food, health, and design: Rethinking adaptation in a changing world 8. Bridging the agri-food and concrete industries: A systemic design approach for reducing waste and CO2 emissions 9. Youths' proposals for the future of food: The 2024 SDGs Design International Awards Section 3: Ecological: Design for sustainable artisanal food Expert precis 4: The essence of Chinese cuisine 10. Rewilding as cultural revitalisation: A central european perspective 11. Urban artisanal food design for regeneration and resilience in Johannesburg, South Africa 12. Critical food practices across art and design: Food laboratories as places for pluriversality 13. Anticipating and deploying sustainable eating: Major challenges and difficulties Expert precis 5: Craft and industry: Divergent trajectories 14. Conclusion Expert precis 6: On the wealth of nations 15. Epilogue: Edible stories through design narratives and aesthetics
