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Design and Food
In CookCamp is the potential for connecting diverse disciplines around a central topic and enabling collaboration in pursuit of unique approaches and solutions to the topics of food and health.
Information about the Design Council's RED: Health project, which engaged multiple stake-holders to co-create innovative solutions to difficult health-care problems such as diabetes and obesity. Co-creation means that all parties—users, service providers, designers, developers, etc.—contribute to the final solution, harnessing domain expertise and providing a vehicle for innovation. At minimum, dialogue between providers and consumers reveals hidden problems and new opportunities.
A video describing the interdisciplinary approach used by RED during the Health project and some of the solutions they helped to develop.
Some questions during the presentation about Transformation Design. Transformation design is an emerging discipline that blurs the traditional boundaries in the pursuit of solutions to complex problems.
Characteristics of Transformation Design
- Defining and redefining the brief
- Collaborating between disciplines
- Employing participatory design techniques
- Building capacity, not dependency
- Designing beyond traditional solutions
- Creating fundamental change
A PDF about Transformation Design by RED has much more detail.
Information about the Fresh Start project, which helps friends transition into a healthy lifestyle through shared cooking.
