Visualising future food: imaginaries of UK food system transformation

当代粮食系统既是气候变化的驱动因素，也容易受到气候变化的影响（Mbow等人，2019年）。为了人类和地球，迫切需要将粮食系统转变为一个既健康又可持续的系统（Rockström等人，2020年）。英国需要进行广泛的变革，以使英国食品系统脱碳，提高其对气候变化的适应能力，并确保所有人都能负担得起可持续的食品选择。但是，在英国，一个健康、可持续和气候适应性强的食品系统到底是什么样子的呢？我们对未来粮食系统的集体想象如何帮助实现所需的转型变革？该项目的总体目标是共同生产英国未来食品系统的原料，从生产到消费。想象力提供了一种“围绕高度复杂问题的意义、连贯性和方向感”（Levy &斯派塞，2013：p660）。它们帮助我们思考“可行的未来”，并动员必要的公众和政治支持来实现这些未来（Jasanoff & Kim，2009：p123）。该项目采用混合方法，顺序项目设计，旨在打开和可视化未来的食物仓库。图像可以塑造人们的想象力（Davoudi & Machen，2021），并帮助我们理解复杂的问题-包括气候变化（奥尼尔等人，2013年）的报告。媒体形象有可能塑造集体意识，从而影响我们所期望和努力的未来。少数图像库（如Getty Images）在全球占据主导地位，这使这些少数组织拥有重要的权力来塑造媒体中复制的图像类型（Hayes &奥尼尔，2021）。这可能导致“图像和图像的同质化”（奥尼尔，2013），包括食物的过渡。为了使用于可视化未来粮食系统的图像多样化，将通过与农业社区（例如Sherren和Verstraten，2013年）、政策制定者（例如Wang等人，2004）和食品消费者（例如Bridle-Fitzpatrick，2015）。该项目的新奇有两个方面：将所有三个群体聚集在一个连贯的项目中，并使用参与者制作的图像和叙述来打开可持续粮食系统的宝库。通过探索图像和未来食品系统的背景下，这个博士学位将添加到视觉气候变化的通信和未来的食品系统的文献。

The contemporary food system is both a driver of climate change and vulnerable to the changing climate (Mbow et al., 2019). There is an urgent need to transform the food system to one that is both healthy and sustainable, for people and the planet (Rockström et al., 2020). Widespread changes will be required to decarbonise the UK food system, improve its resilience to climate change and ensure sustainable food choices are affordable to all. But what does a healthy, sustainable and climate-resilient food system in the UK really look like? And how can our collective imaginary of future food systems help bring about the transformational changes that are needed?The overarching aim of the project is to co-produce imaginaries of the UK's future food system, from production to consumption. Imaginaries provide a "shared sense of meaning, coherence and orientation around highly complex issues" (Levy & Spicer, 2013: p660). They help us think through "feasible futures" and mobilise the necessary public and political support to attain those futures (Jasanoff & Kim, 2009: p123). Using a mixed-method, sequential project design, this project aims to open up and visualise future food imaginaries.Imagery can shape peoples' imaginations (Davoudi & Machen, 2021) and help us understand complex issues - including climate change (O'Neill et al., 2013). Media imagery has the potential to shape collective imaginaries, thereby influencing the futures we desire and work towards. The global dominance of a handful of image banks, such as Getty Images, gives these few organisations significant power to shape the types of images that are reproduced in the media (Hayes & O'Neill, 2021). This can lead to the "homogenisation of images and imaginaries" (O'Neill, 2013), including for food transitions. In an effort to diversify the images used to visualise future food systems, future food imaginaries will be visualised through a photo-elicitation project with farming communities (e.g. Sherren & Verstraten, 2013), policymakers (e.g. Wang et al., 2004) and food consumers (e.g. Bridle-Fitzpatrick, 2015). The novelty of the project is twofold: bringing all three groups together in one coherent project and using the images and narratives produced by participants to open up imaginaries of sustainable food systems. By exploring images and imaginaries in the context of future food systems, this PhD will add to the literature on visual climate change communication and future food imaginaries.