Sebastian Prost

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HCI for Agroecology: Agri-Tech between Grassroots and Capitalism

Digital technologies in agriculture are typically portrayed as enabling more sustainable production while increasing productivity. Yet, commercial solutions rarely address the root causes of unsustainable farming, limiting the uptake of more radical solutions such as agroecology. We conducted fieldwork on 11 UK small-…

CHI '254th AuthorCrowdsourcing Task Design & Quality Control +1

Blending Code and Cause: Understanding the Dynamic Motivations of Volunteer Developers in community-driven FOSS projects

Understanding the motivations of volunteer developers is crucial for the HCI community as it seeks to design sustainable, community-driven digital platforms. This study explores the dynamics of motivation among volunteer developers in the Foodsharing.de platform, a grassroots movement focused on reducing food waste th…

DIS '231st AuthorGeospatial & Map Visualization +2

Walking and Talking: Place-based Data Collection and Mapping for Participatory Design with Communities

This paper explores the value of a participant-led walking method, during which matters of place in urban or rural contexts are explored. While walking, a diverse dataset is collected, including audio recordings, photographs, GPS tracks, as well as three words that participants are prompted for at each stop along the…

CSCW '211st AuthorSustainable Infrastructures for Rural and Local Computing

Contact Zones: Designing for More-than-Human Food Relations

Our food system as a socio-material, heterogeneous infrastructure often remains invisible for citizens. While moments of crisis expose the vulnerabilities and injustices underlying this system, this paper seeks to explore which processes and tools CSCW could purposely design to `open up' food infrastructures and bring…

CSCW '191st AuthorGrassroots movements and civic tech

Infrastructuring Food Democracy: The Formation of a Local Food Hub in the Context of Socio-Economic Deprivation

This paper discusses what infrastructuring in participatory design can contribute to processes of food system democratisation. It presents almost two years of engagement with a community-based organisation in a socio-economically deprived neighbourhood in England with the aim of developing a local food hub. It documen…

CHI '181st AuthorSustainable HCI +1

Food Democracy in the Making: Designing with Local Food Networks

This paper introduces the concept of ‘food democracy’ as a theoretical framing for HCI to engage in human-food interaction. Extending existing foci of health and environmental sustainability, food democracy requires thinking through aspects of social and economic justice, and democratic governance as directions for th…

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