This project is a system for learning about food, and to inspire people to buy, eat and share food locally.  We are not interested in persuading or convincing people of the importance of real food. We wanted to create a collaborative recommendation system that is context based (NOT location based) and that would introduce the learning tasks as subtle interventions. This project was made in collaboration with Alex Braidwood

If we could track the origin and availability of foods we could create a map of seasons:

The protoypes for the cellphones were built using qrcodes and html. You can access the interface prototypes if you point your mobile browser here: http://www.daniellara.com/food/ http://www.daniellara.com/food2.

This is a physical prototype of how the panels would work:

And here is a site we opened to collect part of our research.