When: Wednesday 8 May 2024, 6pm–8pm
Where: Gallery One, Primary
Booking: Free, adults only, limited places. Book here.
Join researcher and graphic designer Saria Digregorio for Hacking Labels, a practical workshop and research study to explore fictional visions for community-led food systems and prototype interactive food labels to shape and share recipes for food systems transformation.
The workshop is designed for adults with an interest in local food systems to be playful, exploratory, and collaborative. No previous experience of working with interactive labels is needed to take part. The workshop activities will include group discussions and simple tasks such as taking notes, sketching ideas, interacting with mobile apps that allow us to scan barcodes and images, prototyping custom labels, and sharing feedback on your experience.
Before taking part, you will be asked for consent to use the ideas and materials generated in the workshop for research purposes. The session will be recorded and photographed for analysis and documentation, and the recordings will be transcribed and anonymised for privacy. You will receive a £20 Love2shop voucher for participating in the study. Light refreshments prepared with local ingredients will be provided.
If you would like to find out more about the workshop, please contact Saria Digregorio (saria.digregorio@nottingham.ac.uk).
Access: This event will take place in Gallery One which has level access from our main entrance. It is a well ventilated space. Please let us know about any allergies or dietary requirements when booking. Please email admin@weareprimary.org or call 0115 924 4493 regarding access enquiries.
More information
Hacking Labels is an opportunity to test digital tools and design methods to create custom content for food labels and transform food packaging into an open platform for communication. The workshop stems from ideas that emerged during the Round Table meals and conversations at Primary. The activities are inspired by the Fashion Fictions participatory research methods developed by Amy Twigger Holroyd and the Squatting Supermarkets participatory publishing experiments designed by Art is Open Source.
Hacking Labels is the pilot study of Visible Food Systems, a larger piece of research which proposes to explore how digital technologies and design processes can be used to visualise the environmental and social implications of food systems, with the aim of making food justice narratives more visible. The research is part of the Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training at the University of Nottingham and is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Image credit: Saria Digregorio