Climate justice is a widely discussed topic, and I had not even heard of the concept before this. For this project, I believe that an effective policy should be able to be widely disseminated and understood, and that its accessibility should be very broad.UAL’s sustainable food policy, despite its initiatives, may be too general and broad, similar to a restaurant claiming to be environmentally friendly without specifying how it is doing so. In this case, the public may need to spend a great deal of time trying to understand the meaning of each of the key words in the policy, such as the sustainability of local food and how free-range chickens respond to climate justice. In order to enhance the accessibility and interactivity of the policy, we decided to integrate the policy into daily life scenarios, for example, by designing food-related tableware, and at the same time, using the tableware as a vehicle for the policy, turning it into a publication with annotations on key elements of the policy, and allowing the public to interact with the content of the policy when they use the tableware and eat, thus enhancing the attractiveness of the policy and the memorability of the policy through visual and hands-on experiences. The policy will be more appealing and memorable through visual and practical experiences.

Making Public Information Actually Accessible to the Public is the Responsibility of Designers

This article reinforces my understanding of the importance of widely disseminating UAL’s sustainable food policy, which has been implemented in a number of ways, but is difficult for the public to access because of the large amount of text, the lack of visual elements, the ambiguous keywords, and the need to scan a QR code to get more information. Considering the limited comprehension of the public, especially for UAL students from all over the world with different educational backgrounds, the presentation of these policies may not be friendly enough. While policy documents need to maintain a certain level of authority, it is also important to ensure that they are understandable and approachable to the public. As designers, we may not be able to directly change people’s behavior, but we can decide what to make people aware of, thus increasing the accessibility and interactivity of policies.

Access questions for self-publishing

After reading this article, I have a deeper understanding of “accessibility”. Not only do we need to make sure that information is easy to read and understand, but we also need to make sure that people from different backgrounds can access it. When designing publications, we must take into account the various barriers that may prevent access to information, including linguistic, economic, cultural, and even online barriers. These are reflected in the policies we choose, such as language barriers, where we cannot understand words that are too authoritative. So we should have a deeper understanding of the policy’s target audience and what the assumptions about those users are, to ensure that the policy statements are both authoritative and easy to understand. This prompted me to reflect on the relevance of the policy and to consider its layout, the way it is communicated and how to make the message more universal and inclusive.

Arranged!

Through this case, we have learned about innovative ways of integrating games into education, which provide new perspectives for communicating and interpreting UAL’s sustainable food policy. Interactive hands-on experiences can increase public participation, while storytelling can enhance the attractiveness and memorability of the policy. In the group discussion, we used catlogging to map the different policies onto different tableware and used the tablecloth as a vehicle to navigate the outputs. In practice, I don’t think we did a very good job of it; the approach did have some effect, but as a game, the rules and system design left something to be desired. Of course, there were some external constraints, such as technical and economic support.

The Decolonizing Design Reader

The design case challenges UAL’s sustainable food policy. It encourages the inclusion of more cultural perspectives in the development of sustainable food, providing a more equitable and holistic approach. Through this case, we question whose knowledge and practices are prioritized in UAL’s sustainable food policy, policy makers or the public? And who decides on the content and fairness of the policy? This means that we should incorporate public knowledge into policy practice to increase the impact and relevance of policy and make it more inclusive, diverse and sustainable. We should re-imagine the policy through more diverse systems of thought, and re-examine the relationship between sustainability, food and our health. For example, the policy considers sustainable food from a British perspective, so does it apply to the public in other countries? Even if the public understands the terminology in the policy, do they agree with it?

Conditional Design Book

According to the main content of the book, it challenges traditional approaches to policy implementation and proposes more flexible and participatory strategies. Perhaps we do not need to think of sustainable development as an outcome, a law that must be fulfilled, but rather as an evolving system, with a clear logic, rather than a predetermined outcome, in order to increase the sustainability and effectiveness of policies. It is also a good idea to design the logic to involve the people for whom the policy is intended, in order to further strengthen the public’s consensus and participation in sustainable food. At the same time, as the sample of users expands, the more conditional the policy becomes, i.e. it needs to be more inclusive. This idea should be a viable direction through iteration.

Exercises in style

This book pushes the boundaries of traditional narratives and shows how multiple possibilities for reconstructing the same event can be realized through different perspectives and language techniques. It inspires us to examine and communicate policy content from multiple perspectives and styles, thereby challenging and enriching our understanding of policy. For example, we can explore policy impacts, implementation challenges, and potential room for improvement through a variety of formats such as storytelling, data visualization, and educational games. Such diverse modes of expression not only enhance the accessibility and attractiveness of the message, but also promote wider public participation and dialogue, providing new perspectives and methods to promote effective implementation and continuous improvement of policies.The course brief seems to do just that, allowing us, the target group for the policy, to develop our own understanding of the policy, producing different outcomes that challenge and enrich the policy itself.

Bibliography:

Anne Berry and Sarah Martin, (2021)Making Public Information Actually Accessible to the Public is the Responsibility of Designers

Kaiya Waerea, (2022)access questions for self-publishing

Nashra Balagamwala, (Unknown)Arranged!

Ramon Tejada, (2018)The Decolonizing Design Reader

Maurer, Luna, (2013)Conditional design workbook Valiz

Queneau, Raymond, (1998)Exercise in style John Colder