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Alimentar novas alternativas : contribuições do Food Design para uma estratégia de Sustentabilidade
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Over the past few years, Design and Food have received an increasing amount of attention, which enhances the evolution of disciplines such as Food Design. The multidisciplinary and transversal nature of this area provides characteristics from the aesthetic, to the cultural, and even emotional component. We can also simplify by simply saying that Food Design is responsible for the connection between food and design.
Although in Portugal these types of studies are still underdeveloped, there is a possibility to intervene and explore these new alternatives.
In 2018, the pollution of plastic materials was declared as a worldwide calamity. The seriousness in this situation reveals the urgency of consumers, companies and governments to take an attitude towards the consumption of disposable plastics. In order to intercede on this problem, we studied the history of the food industry and plastics,
government laws, major companies and consumers. During the industrial revolution, all activities related to agriculture, trade and food
underwent major transformations, but it was in the twentieth century, with World War II, that the food industry endured one of the biggest changes in its history. This was the period that marked the beginning of the era of processed food: fast, efficient and inexpensive. This phenomenon has also happened in the plastic industry, due to its
multifunctional, durable, resistant, weight and low-cost features. Over the last few years we have produced about 8.3 billion tons of plastic and generated 6.3 billion tons of plastic waste. With this exponential, demographic and economic development, the environment has undergone with unprecedented changes in history. In order to meet the current needs of
the industry, the market, the consumers and the environment, we used a methodology from Product Design, which is centered around the user. For the concretization of the main purpose, we developed a Food Design product that complies with the principles of sustainability
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Desenvolvimento sustentável Design de produto Indústria alimentar Plásticos Produtos ecológicos Food design