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Queuing for Waste: Sociotechnical Interactions within a Food Sharing Community

Katie Berns,Chiara Rossitto,Jakob Tholander

Published 2021 in International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

ABSTRACT

This paper investigates the practices of organising face-to-face events of a volunteer-run food-sharing community in Denmark. The ethnographic fieldwork draws attention to the core values underlying the ways sharing events are organised, and how - through the work of volunteers - surplus food is transformed from a commodity to a gift. The findings illustrate the community’s activist agenda of food waste reduction, along with the volunteers’ concerns and practical labour of running events and organising the flow of attendees through various queuing mechanisms. The paper contributes to the area of Food and HCI by: i) outlining the role of queuing in organising activism and ii) reflecting on the role that values, such as collective care and commons, can play in structuring queuing at face-to-face events.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2021

  • Venue

    International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

  • Publication date

    2021-05-06

  • Fields of study

    Sociology, Computer Science, Environmental Science

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.1145/3411764.3445059
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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