In this full-day workshop we will identify opportunities for HCI to support the Australian and New Zealand food and wine industries to become more future ready while recognising and preserving cultural heritage.

 

We will do this through examining practices and interactions that positively impact on community resilience. We explore past and current ways of making, producing and consuming food and wine, including Indigenous practices.

 

Our experiential workshop will take place in transit (on the bus), on excursions (to townships in the Wairarapa region of Wellington) and in productive spaces such as cheese factories and vineyards.

 

We will hear from industry experts in growing, producing and harvesting of honey, cheese, chocolates, and wine.  We will critically reflect on how technology can be deployed to support sustainable and resilient practices within these industries and communities in the face of climate change and other challenges. 

 

We invite interaction designers, HCI researchers, AI programmers, food and wine scientists and producers, historians, storytellers and user experience designers, as well as stakeholders (restaurateurs, winemakers) to participate in a workshop exploring HCI Supporting Food and Wine Futures .

 

We are looking for between 15-25 participants, to share their research, interest or speculative narrative on the topic.

 

Participation in the workshop is by invitation by the organising committee, with acceptance based on a “1-page” position paper, in a form and media appropriate to the contribution, for example, text, images, sketches, illustrations, video or scenarios. Reviewing is based on quality, appropriateness and diversity of ideas that will contribute to the theme of the workshop.

 

Before the workshop, participants are expected to create a 2-3 minute digital story using video or audio, delivered a week before.

 

During the workshop, they will contribute to design brainstorming, bodystorming, ideating and envisioning sessions, at various venues during a one day bus tour to the Martinborough food and wine district. During the bus ride and at various producers venues, we will use these techniques and reflective practice to explore new ideas and opportunities for authentic AI to refine existing use of technology in food and wine production, as well as explore opportunities for the design of new products, services and experiences within end-user areas of both industries.

 

After the workshop, ideas will be evaluated and potentially be used to create a collaborative funding proposal aimed at funding opportunities for future resilience for the Australasian food and wine industries.