Multilayered Installation Design: A framework for analysis and design of complex social events, illustrated by an analysis of virtual conferencing

Lahlou, Saadi; Heitmayer, Maxi; Pea, Roy; Russell, Martha G.; Schimmelpfennig, Robin; Yamin, Paulius; Dawes, Adelaide P.; Babcock, Benjamin; Kamiya, Kazumitsu; Krejci, Kevin; Suzuki, Takafumi; Yamada, R.

doi:10.1016/j.ssaho.2022.100310

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“…Using Installation Theory enabled us to make sense of this extremely complex context. Installation Theory suggests that intervening in any one of these layers has the potential to shift behaviour towards a more sustainable outcome, both in the short and long run [32,33,[119][120][121]. Our analysis of the Indian feminised installation paid careful attention to identifying the critical challenges across the three layers of the installation [33,113].…”

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Securing a Sustainable Future: A Path towards Gender Equality in the Indian Agricultural Sector

Dharamshi,

Moskovitz,

Munshi

2023

Sustainability

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The Indian agricultural sector is the world’s largest producer of pulses, milk, and jute, and the second-largest producer of rice, wheat, vegetables, fruit, and cotton. Climate change threatens food security worldwide and has severely impacted the Indian agricultural sector. As a result of the unpredictable climate and low profits, economic uncertainty has forced men to seek employment in non-farming sectors. Under the deepening crisis, the farming landscape has transformed into a female-majority workforce. To identify pragmatic solutions to the deepening agrarian crisis, we employed a qualitative triangulation approach to our investigation of the feminisation of the farming sector, which was conducted in 2020. Our analyses of Indian media narratives, archive stories, responses to an online story completion task, and in-depth expert interviews show that, despite their developing role and increasing contribution, women remain marginalised and discriminated against in a culturally male-dominant sector. Supported by a long-term field ethnographic experience, we used Installation Theory to identify three domains in which policymakers can intervene to promote the interconnected issues of social sustainability, gender equality, and sustainable economic development in this sector.

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Section: Discussion-a Path Towards Inclusion and Gender Equalitymentioning

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Securing a Sustainable Future: A Path towards Gender Equality in the Indian Agricultural Sector

Dharamshi,

Moskovitz,

Munshi

2023

Sustainability

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“…This can be done methodically by analysing step by step the target behaviour using activity theory to cut activity 'at its natural joints' (i.e. at the natural behavioural transition between one subgoal and the next in the course of action), listing at each step the determining components and motives, and intervening in any of the three layers (by design, education or rules) to modify the behaviour at this step (47) . Interventions should be discussed with stakeholders, not only to check that the modified components actually channel the desired behaviour, but also to make sure that the psychological contract is balanced.…”

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How to change consumer behaviours

Lahlou

2022

Proc. Nutr. Soc.

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Changing consumer behaviour has potential benefits for health, the economy and the environment. Change is possible, and behavioural change has been the purpose of much research; nevertheless we can still observe limited success, as in the case of food in public policies or individual diets. One reason is that models driving behavioural change interventions tend to neglect some important contextual factors. The three layers of components that channel behaviour (‘installations’ in the material, embodied and social realms) are described here and how this channelling can be hacked, modified and leveraged to foster behavioural change. Installations scaffold and control individual and collective behaviour at each step of the behavioural path with their three-layered and partly redundant structure. This redundancy makes the channelling resilient enough to train novices and to guide and repair behaviour. The three layers, physical affordances, embodied competences and social regulation are described in detail. To change eating behaviour, installations must be adapted at all steps of behaviour, from procurement to storage, preparation, meal and disposal. This adaptation can be done through the various layers in an opportunistic way, according to the agency of those who endeavour to change behaviour (e.g. budget, time, political power, etc.) Finally the steps necessary to design behavioural change interventions leveraging installations are listed.

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“…To analyse the consumer journeys that lead to unnecessary household food waste, as well as to develop the proposed interventions, we will apply the Multilayered Installation-Design approach (MID) [8]. Following MID, we use Activity theory [33] to trace the individual journey of stakeholders in food practices, identifying potential issues and defining the scope of our intervention.…”

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“…Attainment of the goal is driven by the internal motives of the individual that finds satisfaction once the desired state is reached, and typically passes through several subgoals that are achieved incrementally. This conceptualisation of activity is, therefore, highly subject-centric and focuses on the individual perception and experience of action [8].…”

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Less Is More: Preventing Household Food Waste through an Integrated Mobile Application

Castro,

Chitikova,

Magnani

et al. 2023

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This paper proposes an intervention using personal Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to help consumers reduce household food waste. Across the global food-supply chain, about one-third of all edible food is lost or wasted each year, and this issue is particularly pressing in in the Global North. We present a detailed overview of consumer activity in relation to household food waste using the Multilayered Installation Design Approach (MID). We trace consumer activity along the acquisition, storage, consumption, and disposal stages and provide a comprehensive set of recommendations on how to use personal ICTs to reduce household food waste rooted in the extant empirical literature. We then develop a concept for an application that integrates the full suite of potential avenues for intervention in one place.

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Multilayered Installation Design: A framework for analysis and design of complex social events, illustrated by an analysis of virtual conferencing

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Securing a Sustainable Future: A Path towards Gender Equality in the Indian Agricultural Sector

Securing a Sustainable Future: A Path towards Gender Equality in the Indian Agricultural Sector

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Less Is More: Preventing Household Food Waste through an Integrated Mobile Application

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