Publicação
Food literacy for public health: an information design exploratory study
| Resumo: | Eating today is no longer sustainable to our planet, as our diets become more unbalanced, with negative impacts on our health. A complex relationship resulting from identity, convenience and responsibility supports most food choices, so critical and functional knowledge is crucial to select what to eat if every person is to act as an ‘agent of change’. Increased food literacy offers an opportunity for better choices — healthier for individuals and more sustainable for the global food system. How to communicate complex health issues to a broader audience in order to create food literacy? An Information Design approach is taken to select and transform unstructured data into useful information that can be communicated efficiently and effectively, considering literature review and different case studies in an exploratory study. This paper describes a set of basic guidelines for designers and health professionals designing programmes that increase awareness for healthy and sustainable food choices: infographics should be innovative (complementary new formats), data and fact-based (tangible patterns, relations or processes), visuallycentered (clear infographics) and attractive (form and content). |
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| Autores principais: | Parreira, Suzana |
| Outros Autores: | Almeida, Pedro Duarte de; Brito, Duarte Vital |
| Assunto: | Food literacy Public health Information design Food design Design for health |
| Ano: | 2025 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | capítulo de livro |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Aveiro |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RIA - Repositório Institucional da Universidade de Aveiro |
| Resumo: | Eating today is no longer sustainable to our planet, as our diets become more unbalanced, with negative impacts on our health. A complex relationship resulting from identity, convenience and responsibility supports most food choices, so critical and functional knowledge is crucial to select what to eat if every person is to act as an ‘agent of change’. Increased food literacy offers an opportunity for better choices — healthier for individuals and more sustainable for the global food system. How to communicate complex health issues to a broader audience in order to create food literacy? An Information Design approach is taken to select and transform unstructured data into useful information that can be communicated efficiently and effectively, considering literature review and different case studies in an exploratory study. This paper describes a set of basic guidelines for designers and health professionals designing programmes that increase awareness for healthy and sustainable food choices: infographics should be innovative (complementary new formats), data and fact-based (tangible patterns, relations or processes), visuallycentered (clear infographics) and attractive (form and content). |
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