Through pilot studies with amateur and commercial foragers in coastal and urban Wales, UK, the project is exploring the confluence of technologies, old and new, that are shaping, and being reshaped by, countryside practices. This feasibility project is developing a framework synthesising ethnomethodology, media geographies, and human-computer interaction to uncover how technologies influence human-nature relationships, co-creating digital eco-pedagogies.
The themes it has addressed are:
- Ecological Citizenship
- Technology
- Wellbeing and health
- Education and pedagogy
Through pilot fieldwork, it developed a practitioner network, and held a co-design workshop. It has paved the way for a wider study and intervention co-design for foraging, with wider implications for outdoor recreation and education, and connection to nature in the digital age.
Funded by the EPSRC as part of the Ecological Citizen(s) Network.
