ABSTRACT
An approach to social innovation based on everyday food waste and latent possibilities to change the food systems’ paradox of surplus and scarcity. Based on literature review and analysis of social initiatives, concentrating on contexts where lack and abundance of food can be matched to minimize famine, improve eating habits, and increase consciousness of food use, loss, and waste. It addresses how Design can contribute to fight hunger within a systemic perspective, redistributing surpluses in a hunger-fighting network, with changing agents from within the community. The study discusses how Design can articulate different needs, understand local potentialities and join common objectives and players. It focuses on tackling food abundance and scarcity, in exploratory research of relevant initiatives, social change, and transformations within the community. Designers play the role of researchers, capability builders, and transformative tools, stimulating the development of the social fabric where government agencies are absent or inefficient.
