GEM (Grown, Edible, Meaningful): Herbal Probes for Community-Driven Environmental Change

GEM（种植、食用、有意义）：社区驱动的环境变化的草药探针

• 批准号: AH/K003976/1
• 负责人: Ann Light
• 金额: $ 4.07万
• 依托单位: Northumbria University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FK003976%2F1
• 关键词: GEM; Grown; Edible; Meaningful; Herbal

The proposal seeks to develop and assess a way to gather accounts from different faith communities about culture, environmental values and food traditions. The tool builds on the concept of cultural probes, which can be used to research people's lifestyle choices and values, and, innovatively, using them as a means to share learning between community members rather than purely feeding back to designer/researchers. The project uses communally grown food as the probe activity through which participants embed, articulate and share cultural values and sustainable life choices, drawing on the success of community growing projects to connect people with each other, with their environment and with issues of sustainable and healthy living.Participants will be invited through community and faith groups to choose and grow edible plants as 'herbal probes' to inspire discussion about provenance, sharing, sustainability and culture in a group context. Residents in two distinct culturally-diverse urban areas of Leeds will start the growing season by preparing recycled containers at a launch workshop, then planting and nurturing a seed for an edible plant chosen to have symbolic meaning to them. By harvest time, they reunite to share the produce and stories of what the plants represent to them, thereby also giving insight into values and life choices. Excess herbs and vegetables can be swapped. The process will develop aspects of environmentally-friendly living in a way that integrates with ordinary life yet inspires reflection, while eliciting accounts that reveal different attitudes to environmental living across communities, cultures and faiths.Accounts will be analyzed to inform on two aspects of the project - what are the different traditions with food that relate to how people regard environmental messages? And how does the presence of a herbal probe in the life of a household impact on interest and engagement in environmentally sustainable practices?

该提案旨在开发和评估一种方法，收集不同信仰社区关于文化、环境价值观和饮食传统的叙述。该工具建立在文化探索的概念之上，可用于研究人们的生活方式选择和价值观，并创新地利用它们作为社区成员之间分享学习的手段，而不是纯粹反馈给设计师/研究人员。该项目使用共同种植的食物作为探索活动，参与者通过该活动嵌入、阐明和分享文化价值观和可持续生活选择，借鉴社区种植项目的成功，将人们彼此、与环境以及可持续和健康生活问题联系起来。将通过社区和信仰团体邀请参与者选择和种植可食用植物作为“草药探针”，以激发在群体背景下关于起源、共享、可持续性和文化的讨论。利兹两个文化多元化的城市地区的居民将在启动车间准备回收容器，然后种植和培育对他们具有象征意义的可食用植物种子，以开始生长季节。到了收获季节，他们会聚在一起分享植物的果实和故事，从而深入了解价值观和生活选择。多余的香草和蔬菜可以交换。该过程将以一种与日常生活融为一体但激发反思的方式发展环保生活的各个方面，同时引出揭示不同社区、文化和信仰对环境生活的不同态度的账户。将对账户进行分析，以了解该项目的两个方面——与人们如何看待环境信息相关的食物传统有哪些？家庭生活中草药探针的存在如何影响对环境可持续实践的兴趣和参与？

项目成果

Sharing economy vs sharing cultures? Designing for social, economic and environmental good

共享经济 vs 共享文化？

• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: Interaction Design and Architecture(s)
• 作者: Light, A.

Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food

劳特利奇风景与食物手册

• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Isendahl C