Remix El Barrio: A Co-Creation Journey to Foster Innovative Ecosystems Crafting and Micro-Fabricating with Food Surplus and Waste

Abstract

Important challenges are about instigating communities to learn, create and manufacture systems with more eco-efficiency and sufficiency, and to raise awareness about local food waste in order to use it as potential resource for material driven design, crafts and micro-fabrication processes. In this paper, we question how to transform and contextualise educational practices based on circular biodesign to raise knowledge locally and co-create with emerging communities. We present and reflect upon the results of the incubation programme “Remix El Barrio”, an ongoing action-research in the neighbourhood of Poblenou in Barcelona during the EU-H2020 SISCODE project..