Con viv: Convivial food systems design in everyday life

This thesis critiques the dehumanising industrial food system. Then proposes a design framework where people can relate to their food, bodies, communities, institutions and nature in a convivial and holistic way. Drawing on living systems theory and the authors own food system design experiments in everyday life, Samuels-Ballantyne proposes convivial design as a relational and tactical way to design what she terms as convivial food systems and a convivial life (convivial self). Convivial design is diverse in its scope, enabling designers to implement local small scale projects and larger educational and policy making programs.