1st Edition
The Transformative Nature of Food Adaptation, Connectivity and Identity
Expert precis 1: Introduction 1. Introduction: The connecting identities of food Section 1: Personal food experience: Food design, identities, and belonging Expert precis 2: The saying "You are what you eat" should be changed to "You belong to the food you eat" 2. Food memories within urban interiors of marketplaces 3. Flavours of resilience: Culinary improvisation, heritage, and cultural sustainability 4. Multispecies collaboration in food textile art 5. Performing with technology and food in Lithuania Section 2: Social: Paradoxes of food systems and climate change Expert precis 3: Food design and belonging 6. Teaching transformation design through food: Shifting from user-centred to humanity-centred approaches 7. Food, health, and design: Rethinking adaptation in a changing world 8. Bridging the agri-food and concrete industries: A systemic design approach for reducing waste and CO2 emissions 9. Youths' proposals for the future of food: The 2024 SDGs Design International Awards Section 3: Ecological: Design for sustainable artisanal food Expert precis 4: The essence of Chinese cuisine 10. Rewilding as cultural revitalisation: A central european perspective 11. Urban artisanal food design for regeneration and resilience in Johannesburg, South Africa 12. Critical food practices across art and design: Food laboratories as places for pluriversality 13. Anticipating and deploying sustainable eating: Major challenges and difficulties Expert precis 5: Craft and industry: Divergent trajectories 14. Conclusion Expert precis 6: On the wealth of nations 15. Epilogue: Edible stories through design narratives and aesthetics
Biography
Dolly Daou is an internationally recognised design researcher, educator, and leader. Dr Daou co-founded and is co-chair of the Food Think Tank at the Cumulus Association and the DRS Food Design Research Studio. With over 25 years of global experience and numerous high-ranking academic publications, she has received multiple awards and serves on the Advisory Board of Cindrebay University, Dubai. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5113-818X
Melanie Sarantou (PhD) is Professor of Social Design at Kyushu University in Japan. Dr Sarantou's lecturing and research interests span the role of transformation design in arts-based research and design practices. Having edited numerous high-ranking books, her current research explores biotextiles, food plants, and the complexities of social fabrics to understand how to create and assess transformative change. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2209-3191
