Food citizenship: play, imagination, and metaphors

Abstract

This article was crafted from data collected in Barcelona and Bali. The study uses an ethnographic approach to understand the everyday life of work teams of independent creative organisations and ‘enterprising imaginative citizens’ (Hjorth, 2013) engaged in relationally responsive future-making and, specifically, the idea of “food citizenship”. The look is at spaces for work collaboration to foresee practical contributions in how creative narratives are conceived within open-source communities. Coupled relations steered by imagination and figurative language are demonstrated to inspire both changes in human behaviour, as well as playgrounds for civic action. Theoretical contributions on the dynamics of organisations put forth in Foucault’s (1991) “spaces of possibility” are made.