Projects
Public engagement
We believe that the public deserves to know more about the use of such potentially disruptive technologies as nanotechnologies, synthetic biology and geoengineering and that they have a key role to play in helping shape their development and use.
We will aim to find ways of involving the public directly in all of our projects, though funding is usually a restraint in this regard.
Future Foods Project
As part of a European Commission FP7 Project the NANOPLAT, we worked with scenarios design company Strategic Design Scenarios and the Leatherhead Food International to explore a methodology to engage the public on the use of technology in food.
The Future Foods Project was developed to use creative photo-representations of fictional foods using new technologies to explore the attitudes of the public and to feed in to policy, research and business development.
This was an exploration only and has not been used in a public dialogue as yet, though we are exploring how this could be taken forward in future public dialogues.
If you would like to know more about this project, please contact Hilary on hilary@matterforall.org
