TY - GEN
T1 - Everyday food science as a design space for community literacy and habitual sustainable practice
AU - Kuznetsov, Anastasia
AU - Santana, Christina J.
AU - Long, Elenore
PY - 2016/5/7
Y1 - 2016/5/7
N2 - Focusing on food as a platform for everyday science, this paper details our fieldwork with practitioners who routinely experiment with preserving, fermenting, brewing, pickling, foraging for, and healing with food. We engage with these at-home science initiatives as community-driven efforts to construct knowledge and envision alternatives to top-down modes of production. Our findings detail the motivations, challenges, and workarounds behind these practices, as well as participants' hybrid lay-professional knowledge, and the iterative mechanisms by which their expertise is scaffolded. Our paper contributes to CHI's amateur/citizen science research by examining how social, digital, and physical materials shape scientific literacy; and to sustainable HCI by presenting habitual practice as an alternative (bottomup) form of food production and preservation.
AB - Focusing on food as a platform for everyday science, this paper details our fieldwork with practitioners who routinely experiment with preserving, fermenting, brewing, pickling, foraging for, and healing with food. We engage with these at-home science initiatives as community-driven efforts to construct knowledge and envision alternatives to top-down modes of production. Our findings detail the motivations, challenges, and workarounds behind these practices, as well as participants' hybrid lay-professional knowledge, and the iterative mechanisms by which their expertise is scaffolded. Our paper contributes to CHI's amateur/citizen science research by examining how social, digital, and physical materials shape scientific literacy; and to sustainable HCI by presenting habitual practice as an alternative (bottomup) form of food production and preservation.
KW - Amateur science
KW - Food
KW - Slow technology
KW - Sustainable HCI
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U2 - 10.1145/2858036.2858363
DO - 10.1145/2858036.2858363
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85015101396
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 1786
EP - 1797
BT - CHI 2016 - Proceedings, 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 34th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2016
Y2 - 7 May 2016 through 12 May 2016
ER -