Visualising future food: imaginaries of UK food system transformation

当代粮食系统既是气候变化的驱动力，又容易受到气候变化的影响(MBowet al.，2019年)。迫切需要将粮食系统转变为对人类和地球既健康又可持续的系统(Rockström等人，2020年)。要让英国的食品体系脱碳，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，就需要进行大范围的变革。但在英国，一个健康、可持续和气候适应性强的食品体系到底是什么样子呢？我们对未来食品体系的集体想象如何帮助带来所需的变革性变化？该项目的总体目标是共同产生对英国未来食品体系从生产到消费的想象。想象力提供了“高度复杂问题的共同意义、连贯性和方向性”(Levy&Spicer，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，旨在开启和可视化未来的食物想象。想象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(O‘Neill等人，2013)。媒体形象有可能塑造集体想象，从而影响我们渴望和努力的未来。少数图像库的全球主导地位，如Getty Images，赋予了这几个组织塑造媒体转载的图像类型的巨大力量(Hayes&O‘Neill，2021)。这可能导致“图像和想象的同质化”(O‘Neill，2013)，包括食物过渡。为了使用于可视化未来食品系统的图像多样化，将通过一个与农业社区(例如Sherren和Verstrten，2013)、决策者(例如Wang等人，2004年)和食品消费者(例如Bridle-Fitzpatrick，2015)的照片启发项目来可视化未来的食品想象。该项目的新颖性是双重的：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开启可持续食品系统的想象力。通过探索未来食物系统中的图像和想象，这一博士学位将增加关于视觉气候变化交流和未来食物想象的文献。

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.