Participants representing community organisations, local councils, primary, further and higher educational institutes, businesses, food charities are introduced to the design thinking methodology. A great wealth of experience is shared and captured.

The workshops create an opportunity to:

1) Understand how everyone in the room is currently involved 

2) Create awareness of the value of each participant’s own tacit knowledge

The process for doing empathetic research is introduced and participants are paired up to use the interview process. The sharing of experiences is important for participants to build a sense of trust in each other and indeed in the process. Small teams are built with mixed ‘Points of View’ on the challenge.

An insight gathering session is held with those experiencing social disadvantage and at risk of food-related health inequalities.  This is designed to gather and capture views and thoughts on the challenge How Might We create positive food experiences helping improve people and planetary health. Interviews are carried out in a way that encourages participants to share their stories.

 Data from these activities are collated and integrated with the output from the first workshop. The key insights from each represented group are identified and these are then reframed as  ‘How Might We’ statements’.

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