When Species Eat: using collaborative SF design to diversify the collective imaginaries of food ecologies

该研究项目是作为3D 3/NPIF博士生奖学金的一部分开发的，因此是基于生物技术的工业战略报告。该报告详细介绍了英国工业生物技术和合成生物学研究、创新和基础设施如何有潜力提供一个独特的增长平台，将企业和行业联系起来，开发和使用绿色生物技术，在未来12年及以后创造一个更加可持续的未来。该项目建立在这一主张的基础上，在UWE的数字文化研究中心内与行业合作伙伴We the Curious合作（有关合作伙伴关系及其条款的更多信息，请参见附件1.2）。随着气候崩溃和英国退欧的双重威胁即将到来，我们需要新的方法来概念化我们在不久的将来如何种植，保存，运输和准备食物（Ambler-Edwards等人，2009; Benton等人，2019）。针对这些问题，该项目提出了一种迭代和协作的公众参与实践，将以西南地区实验室、初创公司和其他消费者研究空间目前对食品生物技术的研究为起点。从围绕合成生物学和生物技术与食品、农业和营养的广泛辩论中汲取灵感，我试图集体重新想象我们未来的生活和饮食方式。（Dunne & Raby，2013年; Haraway，2013 b），我将开发一种批判性实践（研讨会、街头活动、设计推测），将批判性地参与食品的科学和技术“知识”。通过这样做，我的目标是创造新的投机性美食参与模式，可以开玩笑地破坏生态学和生物多样性的规范主体性，与人类的食物生产和消费实践有关。（Guattari，2005年）。在科学和技术研究（STS）的批判性理论辩论中定位自己，特别是与多物种共生有关（Donati，2014; Haraway，2013 a; Massey，2004），以及对人类生态学的酷儿，女权主义和非殖民化方法（de la Parra & Quave，2017; Gaard，1997;威廉姆斯等人，2012年），将制定干预措施/装置/讲习班，以期重新想象我们如何与生态系统共存的未来，来塑造我们当前的当务之急作为项目的一部分，我将利用我作为基层食品活动家和关键艺术家/设计师的经验，以便：1。发展一种批判性的投机/科幻实践，使不同的公众参与：在英格兰西南部，围绕食品生物技术的共同辩论，将食品作为材料和主题。讨论我们未来如何通过集体投机性的制作和游戏来生产和消费食物。开发一个协作，迭代和持续的安装，每年在我们好奇的展示，最终在一个最终的节目，这与实践方法和文档一起，将构成这个博士学位的最终提交的一部分。我的目标是：1.通过邀请人们集体重新想象技术食品的未来，打破霸权的资本主义现实主义和技术科学的稀缺性，缺乏和个人主义的叙述，经常在投机/科幻小说的系列中发现，扰乱围绕食品未来的规范性系列。围绕食品生物技术的未来进行多样化的公共辩论和政策，邀请人们对未来的食品进行有趣的回顾，认为它们是快乐和丰富的。发展一种协作和批判性的思辨设计实践，借鉴女权主义SF，并可以作为一种解放工具，以解决在SCD作为方法论和实践中的一些常见批评。

This research project is developed as part of the 3D3/NPIF Doctoral Studentship, and as such is based on the Industrial Strategy report on Biotechnologies. The report detailed how UK industrial biotechnology and synthetic biology research, innovation and infrastructure has the potential to provide a unique platform for growth, connecting businesses and industries in developing and using green, bio-based technologies to create a more sustainable future for all over the next 12 years and beyond (Corbett & Vanderhoven, 2018). This project builds on that proposition, working from within UWE's Digital Cultures Research Centre, in collaboration with an Industry Partner, We the Curious (see attached document 1.2 for further information on the partnership and its terms). With the dual threats of climate collapse and Brexit on the horizon, we need new ways to conceptualise how we might grow, preserve, transport and prepare food in the near future (Ambler-Edwards et al, 2009; Benton et al, 2019). In response to these concerns, this project proposes an iterative and collaborative public engagement practice which will take as it's starting point current research on food biotechnologies in labs, start-up companies and other consumer research spaces in the Southwest. Drawing from wider debates around synthetic biology and biotechnology in relation to food, agriculture and nutrition, I seek to collectively re-imagine how we might live and eat in the future.Utilising a collaborative feminist SF design methodology (Dunne & Raby, 2013; Haraway, 2013b), I will develop a critical practice (workshops, street events, design speculations) that will critically engage with the scientific and technological 'imaginaries' of food. By doing so, I aim to create new modes of speculative gastronomic engagement that can playfully disrupt normative subjectivities of ecology and biodiversity in relation to human practices of food production and consumption (Guattari, 2005).Situating itself within the critical theoretical debates of Science and Technology Studies (STS), particularly in relation to multispecies conviviality (Donati, 2014; Haraway, 2013a; Massey, 2004), and queer, feminist and decolonial approaches to human ecology (de la Parra & Quave, 2017; Gaard, 1997; Williams et al, 2012), the interventions/installations/workshops will be formulated with a view to reimagine how we with co-exist with ecological systems in the future, in order to shape our imperatives in the present. Project aims/objectivesAs part of the project, I will be utilising my experience as both a grassroots food activist and critical artist/designer in order to:1. Develop a critical speculative/SF practice that playfully engages diverse publics into:a. common debates around the food biotechnologies within the southwest of England, using food as both material and subject.b. discussions around how we could potentially produce and consume food in the future, through collective speculative making and play.2. Develop a collaborative, iterative and ongoing installation for display annually at We the Curious, culminating in a final show, which, alongside the practice methodology and documentation, will form part of the final submission for this doctorate. I aim to:1. Disrupt normative imaginaries around the future of food by inviting people to collectively re-imagine technological food futures that disrupt the hegemonic capitalist-realist and techno-scientific narratives of scarcity, lack and individualism often found in the imaginaries of Speculative/Science fictions.2. Diversify public debates and policy around the future of food biotechnologies by inviting playful reimaginings of food in the future as joyful and abundant.3. Develop a practice of collaborative and critical speculative design that draws from feminist SF and can act as an emancipatory tool, in order to address some of the common criticisms levelled at SCD as both methodology and practice.