Design by Doing in Louisiana Farmers Markets: Adaptive cycles, learning, and innovating in the time of the COVID-19 crisis
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Giancola, Mikal M and Pinske, Eve C. (2021) Design by Doing in Louisiana Farmers Markets: Adaptive cycles, learning, and innovating in the time of the COVID-19 crisis. In: Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD10) 2021 Symposium, 2-6 Nov 2021, Delft, The Netherlands.
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Abstract
In March 2020, Louisiana farmers markets halted in-person operations to adapt after COVID-19. Consumption of healthy foods at farmers markets, especially among poor and minority communities, is a subsidized public health priority in the US (USDA, 2021). Grant funding supported marketing, adopting online platforms, and farmer incentives. An initial study examining the changes in these farmers markets during COVID-19 investigates if innovation occurred, the factors that influence innovation, the types of learning that facilitated innovating, and how COVID-19 influenced learning and innovation. More broadly, the paper discusses how public health institutions can support innovation as co-creators. Qualitative methods were used to analyse publicly available records including documents and audio-visual recordings (Miles, Huberman, & Saldaña, 2020). A modified Holling’s cycle served as an analytic model to understand how innovation after a crisis unfolds over time (Fath, Dean, & Katzmair, 2015). Analysis showed during COVID-19, support resulted in multiple innovations supporting short-term resilience. The discussion demonstrates learning over time addresses the tension between design of interventions as an initial, strategic planning process vs. iterative cycles of co-creating, learning and co-evolving.
| Item Type: | Conference/Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | PSE change, farmers markets, innovation, learning |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Design |
| Date Deposited: | 27 May 2022 17:40 |
| Last Modified: | 27 May 2022 17:45 |
| URI: | https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/3843 |
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