Designing for grassroots food production: an event-based urban agriculture community
Designing for grassroots food production: an event-based urban agriculture community
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草根粮食生产设计:基于事件的都市农业社区
DOI:
10.1145/2686612.2686666
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发表时间:
2014
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M. Foth
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作者:
Peter Lyle;J. Choi;M. Foth
As urbanisation of the global population has increased above 50%, growing food in urban spaces increases in importance, as it can contribute to food security, reduce food miles, and improve people's physical and mental health. Approaching the task of growing food in urban environments is a mixture of residential growers and groups. Permablitz Brisbane is an event-centric grassroots community that organises daylong 'working bee' events, drawing on permaculture design principles in the planning and design process. Permablitz Brisbane provides a useful contrast from other location-centric forms of urban agriculture communities (such as city farms or community gardens), as their aim is to help encourage urban residents to grow their own food. We present findings and design implications from a qualitative study with members of this group, using ethnographic methods to engage with and understand how this group operates. Our findings describe four themes that include opportunities, difficulties, and considerations for the creation of interventions by Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) designers.