Stealing is sharing is caring: mapping pathways from angst to love Design interventions to explore a community scale, localised food system

摘要

Contemporary manifestations of urban agriculture have become symbols of creativity, activism and sustainability in cities. Originally designed to co-locate food and people, urban agriculture produces not just food, but draws people together for social interactions that may have not otherwise existed. What is interesting with these social interactions, is that shared interests don’t necessarily translate to sharing other things. This practice explores the social context around urban agriculture through a series of design interventions that challenge ideas of ownership, the boundaries drawn between private and public, collaboration and cooperation, value and waste. Utilising action research methology has enabled an unique insight as both a mirror and a window into the current food and sustainability practices, and urban culture in Australia. The practice takes place over 3 locations in 2 states: Newcastle NSW, Melbourne and Castlemaine Victoria. All of these places are hubs of creativity and social innovation, offering space to foster and incubate this type of collaborative, sometimes disruptive work. As part of this reflective process, a model is created that provides a framework in which this work and other similar projects can operate on.