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Scaling up to tackle low levels of urban food waste recycling

Seaborn, K; Mähönen, J; Rogers, Y; (2020) Scaling up to tackle low levels of urban food waste recycling. In: DIS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. (pp. pp. 1327-1340). ACM: Association for Computing Machinery: New York, NY, USA. Green open access

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Abstract

Addressing societal problems is complex; little is known about which paths or approaches are successful. We discuss what is involved in knowing when and how and for whom change needs to occur, as well as the impact of doing so at scale-especially when novelty and academic contributions may be compromised. To this end, we present a 'scaling up' framework based on a societal project where we worked with multiple stakeholders to improve food waste recycling rates in a housing estate. We propose three main factors involved in scaling up: (i) 'the people,' through reimagining roles and relationships, (ii) 'the method,' requiring flexibility in design and research, and (iii) 'the impact,' informing new measures by handing over the evaluation. We reflect on the challenges, dilemmas, and successes encountered, as well as discuss the benefit of 'handing over' the evaluation process to gather scalable metrics based on economic modelling.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Scaling up to tackle low levels of urban food waste recycling
Event: 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
ISBN-13: 9781450369749
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1145/3357236.3395524
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395524
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: scaling up, behavior change, food waste recycling, multi-stakeholder collaboration
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10110909
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