Please describe a domain or an area of opportunity that you’d like to use as the focus for Design Project 2.
Start by reviewing the initiatives described on the Sustainable Stanford website. Then, identify the domain that you’d like to explore and use as the focus for your Design Project 2.
The idea is that you’ll be working with a Stanford Group to understand their challenges and needs as they promote their sustainability initiatives. You’re task will be to work with them to design a project that will help to promote sustainable behaviors and practices for the clients that they serve.
Please share your initial thoughts in a few paragraphs below…
The domain/area that I’d like to focus on is….
- Building the physical and organizational infrastructure to foster the connection between people, land, and agriculture
And the reason that this area is important and meaningful to me is….
Food has always been an essential part of my and my family’s life: we live to eat, not eat to live. There is so much joy to be found in cooking and eating, and the industrialization of food has not only limited the quality/sustainability of our diets but also divorced us from the joy of connecting with food. As someone passionate about the built environment, I am curious about how Stanford and the Farm can be used as a model for increasing community engagement in farm-to-table agricultural systems. How can we improve the connection to food we promote at Stanford — through both policy and infrastructure — and how can we share this process with our fellow neighbors/community members? What other perspectives can we incorporate into our agricultural systems to both increase sustainability and engagement?