Foodscapes

Foodscape是一个共同设计的合作行动研究项目，旨在支持和调查当地食品倡议(LFS)中艺术和表演的使用，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)。通过一系列联合制作的艺术和文化干预措施，侧重于生产、购买、烹饪和食用食物，我们的项目旨在促进对话，并加强可持续发展、复原力和福祉等概念与人们的日常生活和体验之间的联系。食物是一种关键资源，与社会和环境系统有关的无数联系共同理解。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对农作物和农田用于生物燃料的担忧，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之一。这些趋势不仅表明了粮食和气候变化战略的相互关联性，而且也给全球粮食安全带来了一系列新的挑战。例如，虽然英国目前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，但粮食气候研究网络最近的一份报告认为，比起单纯的生产倡议，更健康的饮食将在解决环境和饥饿问题方面走得更远。因此，需要研究传统生产模式的替代方案是否以及如何改变消费做法，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贫困地区的学者、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，通过将重点放在消费上，并通过将快乐、乐趣、创造力和绩效引入LFS计划，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，并挑战围绕可持续做法的假设。我们的行动研究模式将鼓励参与者反思他们种植(和食用)的食物的生产和消费，提供有意义的机会共同设计和共同研究Foodscape倡议。这一艺术生产过程--与研究人员和艺术家一起工作--将通过审查和揭示项目中的参与者经验，实现对话、互动和社会变革。通过这种方式，我们寻求在不稳定和不确定的背景下，引出与可持续性、复原力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与规划(Buser)、文化地理学(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 Media Centre和Matthew Tree Project合作制定了这项提案。这两个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)，双方都希望通过对购物、烹饪和饮食的世俗做法进行微小的转变，挖掘出更可持续社区的潜力。

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.