Miroboard Mindmap

This week I started expanding more on my Miroboard Mindmap and started dissecting each of the pillars to truly understand why and what I want to investigate. Very quickly, the term “food wastage” changed to “food preservation” as I felt it had more value in investigating where food can go after it has been “wasted”. I have always been quite curious about environmentally savvy ways to help the environment, and hence I decided to focus on an outlook that tackles planning and creating solutions for the future, the future of food.

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I also started compiling more general readings on Singapore and food consumption spaces. Mostly, I was keen to first understand the psychology of how people make certain food choices that lead them to waste food.

Age of Data

This week we were focused on creating experiments for our topic exploration and the first developments into outcomes for our topic. I looked into the books provided by Andreas, specifically the Age of Data Book which was a thick book documenting a multitude of interactive projects. Of which I found this project in particular: "Swarm Study RANDOM INTERNATIONAL’s ongoing Swarm Studies explore the intelligence in motion of self-organising systems through increasingly dematerialised, sensory environments."

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Consultation with Andreas

I was looking into a paper about Social eating, specifically about a Sensory interactive Table experiment by researchers, about how people mimic similar behaviours while they eat in a social situation, I talked about how the table's surface lights up to emphasise this connection between people and investigate how groups eat in communion.

Andreas also asked about what I would do to prevent someone from wasting food. I said I would pressure people into eating by using other people to stare at the person wasting food. I was promopted to explore this further. I was also keen to explore indication of food wastage through a weight sensor and blinking lights to pressure people in an eating space.
He also adviced about how not including surveys in my dissertation just because they are easy to create. Hence, it may be better to focus on critical sources, ones from people experienced in this food field.