Foodscapes

食物景观是一个共同设计的合作行动研究项目，旨在支持和调查艺术和表演在当地食物倡议（LFS）中的应用，以促进社会凝聚力，健康和充满活力的可持续社区。这项工作汇集了布里斯托尔的两个LFS项目-可食用景观运动（ELM）和马修树企业（TMTE）。通过一系列专注于生产、购买、烹饪和食用食物的联合制作的艺术和文化干预，我们的项目旨在促进对话，加强可持续性、弹性和福祉等概念与人们日常生活和体验之间的联系。食物是一种重要的资源，与社会和环境系统有着无数的联系。气候变化和日益加剧的天气波动、歉收、对石油峰值的担忧以及农作物和农田用于生物燃料的使用，都是导致粮食供应中断和大宗商品价格大幅波动的一系列挑战。这些趋势不仅表明了粮食与气候变化战略的相互关联性，而且也为全球粮食安全带来了一系列新的挑战。例如，虽然目前英国的政策主要是通过供应方战略（例如，增加产量）来解决粮食安全问题，但食品气候研究网络最近的一份报告认为，在解决环境和饥饿问题方面，更健康的饮食比单纯的生产举措走得更远。因此，需要进行研究，探讨传统生产模式的替代办法是否以及如何可能引起消费习惯的变化，并实现可持续的未来。为了实现这一目标，foodscape将来自布里斯托尔两个弱势地区的学者、艺术家、社区合作伙伴和社区成员聚集在一起，考虑粮食安全和可持续社区的新解决方案。我们相信，通过关注消费，并在LFS方案中引入享受、乐趣、创造力和表现，我们可以在参与社区的健康和福祉方面取得重大进展，为公民对话开辟新的途径，并挑战围绕可持续实践的假设。我们的行动研究模式将通过为共同设计和“共同研究”食物景观倡议提供有意义的机会，鼓励参与者反思他们正在种植（和食用）的食物的生产和消费。与研究人员和艺术家一起工作的艺术生产过程将通过检查和揭示项目参与者的经验来实现对话、互动和社会转型。通过这种方式，我们试图在不稳定和不确定的背景下，找出与可持续性、弹性和福祉概念相关的价值和意义。我们的团队由来自公民参与和规划（Buser），文化地理（Roe），社会学（Dinnie）和艺术（Hall）的学者组成。我们与两个社区合作伙伴——Knowle West媒体中心和The Matthew Tree Project合作开发了这个方案。双方合作伙伴都参与了针对布里斯托尔弱势社区的当地食品倡议（分别为ELM和TMTE），双方都希望通过在日常购物、烹饪和饮食方面的细微转变，挖掘出更可持续发展社区的潜力。

Foodscapes is a co-designed, collaborative action research project seeking to support and investigate the use of arts and performance in local food initiatives (LFS) to advance socially cohesive, healthy and vibrant sustainable communities. The work brings together two LFS projects in Bristol - the Edible Landscapes Movement (ELM) and the Matthew Tree Enterprise (TMTE). Through a series of co-produced arts and cultural interventions focused on producing, buying, cooking and eating food, our project seeks to enable dialogue and strengthen connections between concepts such as sustainability, resilience and wellbeing and people's daily lives and experiences.Food is a critical resource commonly understood by myriad connections related to social and environmental systems. Climate change and increasing weather volatility, failed harvests, concerns around peak oil and the use of crops and farmland for biofuels are among a range of challenges contributing to disruptions in food supplies and dramatic swings in commodity prices. These trends not only demonstrate the inter-connected nature of food and climate change strategies, but also present a new set of challenges for global food security. For example, while current UK policy seeks to address food security primarily through supply-side strategies (e.g., increase production), a recent report by the Food Climate Research Network argued that healthier diets would go further than purely production initiatives towards addressing both environmental and hunger issues.As such, research is needed to explore whether and how alternatives to traditional production models might engender changes in consumption practices and enable sustainable futures. Towards this objective, Foodscapes brings together academics, artists, community partners and community members from two disadvantaged areas of Bristol to consider new solutions to food security and sustainable communities. We believe that by focusing on consumption and by introducing enjoyment, fun, creativity and performance into LFS programmes we can bring about significant gains in health and wellbeing amongst participant communities, forge new pathways for civic dialogue, and challenge assumptions around sustainable practices. Our action research model will encourage participants to reflect on the production and consumption of the food they are growing (and eating) by affording meaningful opportunities to co-design and 'co-research' the Foodscapes initiative. This process of arts production - working alongside researchers and artists - will enable dialogue, interaction and social transformation by examining and revealing participant experiences in the project. In this way, we seek to draw out the value and meaning associated with concepts of sustainability, resilience and wellbeing within a context of precariousness and uncertainty. Our team is made up of academics from civic engagement and planning (Buser), cultural geography (Roe), sociology (Dinnie), and the arts (Hall). We have developed this proposal collaboratively with two community partners - Knowle West Media Centre and The Matthew Tree Project. Both partners are engaged in local food initiatives targeting disadvantaged communities in Bristol (ELM and TMTE respectively) and both are looking to draw out the potential for more sustainable communities through minute transformations in the mundane practices of shopping, cooking and eating.