Using Technology to Create Food Systems Transformation
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2018-04
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Ohio State University. Office of Outreach and Engagement
Abstract
This poster highlights the use of technology in participatory food systems research. It will focus on the development of a participatory mapping application and the use of the ESRI Story Map platform to disseminate and contextualize spatial analysis, to describe the ways technology has been incorporated into Food-mapping for Empowerment, Access, and Sustainable Transformation's (FEAST) research approach aimed at under-standing and mapping the lived experience of food insecurity.
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This poster will highlight the use of technology in participatory food systems research. Focusing on the development of a participatory mapping application and the use of the ESRI Story Map platform to disseminate and contextualize spatial analysis, this poster will describe the ways technology has been incorporated into Food-mapping for Empowerment, Access, and Sustainable Transformation's (FEAST) research approach aimed at understanding and mapping the lived experience of food insecurity. FEAST implements a modified Healthy Eating and Active Living Mapping Attributes using Participatory Photographic Surveys (HEAL MAPPS), first developed at by Oregon State University's Extension and designed to assess food and health environments which it has modified to strengthen the participatory components of the curriculum, adding additional participatory exercises. This coming spring, FEAST will partner with the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis to develop an application to replace the photo-enabled Garmin units and hand written journals used to record people's experiences in their local food environment with an application designed to utilize the GPS, photo and voice-to-text components of smart devices. The application eliminates the need for the complicated Garmin units and cumbersome hand-written journals, creating a less stressful mapping experience for community researchers. FEAST also utilizes ESRI's Story Mapping platform to tell the story of food insecurity for specific neighborhoods in the greater Columbus community. The Story Mapping platform enables FEAST to embed personal narrative and lived experience into the spatial analysis of ArcGIS. Sharing a Story Map created from FEAST's work on Columbus' southside and a smart device with the mapping application, this poster presentation will illustrate the interactive and multifaceted nature of the work.
AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Michael Outrich, Graduate Research Assistant, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, The Ohio State University, outrich.1@osu.edu (Corresponding Author); Tannya Forcone, Graduate Research Assistant, Kirwan Institute for Race and Ethnicity, The Ohio State University.
AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Michael Outrich, Graduate Research Assistant, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, The Ohio State University, outrich.1@osu.edu (Corresponding Author); Tannya Forcone, Graduate Research Assistant, Kirwan Institute for Race and Ethnicity, The Ohio State University.
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GIS, story map, participatory mapping, food insecurity, Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)
Citation
Engaged Scholars, v. 6 (2018).