%0 Journal Article %A Conference, RTD %A DiSalvo, Carl %A Jenkins, Tom %D 2019 %T RTD2015 20 Drones for Foraging %U https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/RTD2015_20_Drones_for_Foraging/1327990 %R 10.6084/m9.figshare.1327990.v1 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1967062 %K design %K drones %K agriculture %K foraging %K Design %X

Drones for Foraging is a research through design project that explores the use of hobbyist drones in support of urban foraging. The underlying motivation for this project is to use design as a means of investigating future practices and to provide the basis for near-term innovation with hobbyist drones. Through this project we are developing use-cases that make strong claims around the current and future uses of drone technologies to aid bottom-up food finding, prototyping software and user interfaces for drone navigation, helping build a broader community of practice around these complex issues, and exploring the use of open-source technologies for image capture and analysis. Our work is intended to provide real-world rationales that move drones beyond being military hardware or simply a technological gizmo. Repurposing automation and monitoring technologies as partners in food-finding proposes a collaboration between the ecological, technical, and social that illustrates one way to generate new food infrastructures.

 

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