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Harvard Graduate School of Design | REALTIME CITIES 2014 | Food Recovery Network | Kalisha Holmes

Food Recovery Network

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Harvard Graduate School of Design | REALTIME CITIES 2014 | Food Recovery Network | Kalisha Holmes

• Food Insecurity: 50 million American families are food insecure- 1 in 6 children- 1 in 5 Americans

• Since 2011, Food Recovery Network has:– Recovered 340,000+ lbs. of food so far– 89 college chapters– In 25 U.S. states + Puerto Rico + D.C.

Goal: 1,000 chapters + 10 million lbs. of food recovered by 2018

About Food Recovery Network

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Harvard Graduate School of Design | REALTIME CITIES 2014 | Food Recovery Network | Kalisha Holmes

– Food Recovery Network is building a national network of universities, restaurants and community volunteers to empower local networks to recover and redistribute food that would otherwise be wasted

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Harvard Graduate School of Design | REALTIME CITIES 2014 | Food Recovery Network | Kalisha Holmes

Building a Food Recovery Network

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Harvard Graduate School of Design | REALTIME CITIES 2014 | Food Recovery Network | Kalisha Holmes

– With current model, it is impossible to see real-time updates on amount of food recovered

– As a result, much of the information on the website is out of date

– Makes it difficult to communicate within chapters and/or between chapters to share best practices and to set common goals

– There is no functionality to allow one-time donations by non-Food Recovery Network affiliated institutions that may have large but inconsistent food surpluses

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Harvard Graduate School of Design | REALTIME CITIES 2014 | Food Recovery Network | Kalisha Holmes

The Problem

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Current Static Model

Currently online and offline activities happen independently of each other. The website is manually updated periodically while food recovery efforts are continuously occurring offline at a high frequency

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Food Recovery Network:

ProposedTechnological

Retrofitting

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Project Goal:– Connect the physical and virtual realms

– To create a dynamic and interactive network rather than a static network

Project Purpose:– Broaden network through increased visibility

– Increase accountability

– Allow individuals with common goals to connect in a virtual space

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- Provide public accountability and real-time updates on numbers

- Attract new users to the process of food recovery by making the actual process more visible

- Change the status quo of university cafeterias to be in this network and provide mechanisms through branding to shame non-food recoverers to join this socially responsible network

- Make food recovery “cool” and potentially profitable for corporate partners by making food recovery a brand and source of pride

- Implement temporary nodes and ties to Food Recovery Network in addition to affiliated members

Harvard Graduate School of Design | REALTIME CITIES 2014 | Food Recovery Network | Kalisha Holmes

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Harvard Graduate School of Design | REALTIME CITIES 2014 | Food Recovery Network | Kalisha Holmes

Objectives of Technological Retrofitting

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Fabricated Physical Interface

The new physical interface will connect the volunteers, the places of food recovery and the more detailed information about recovered food to a central server that can then transmit that information to display in real-time to infinite physical and virtual spaces

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Harvard Graduate School of Design | REALTIME CITIES 2014 | Food Recovery Network | Kalisha Holmes

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Fabricated Physical Interface

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• Information about the food recovered will be input into a QR Code using a smartphone application and then placed on the box with information including:

– Date & Time of Recovery– Unique Member Identification Code– Food Family Code (ex. cereals, fruit, vegetables, etc.)– Weight of Food # of meals recovered

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Harvard Graduate School of Design | REALTIME CITIES 2014 | Food Recovery Network | Kalisha Holmes

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Smartphone Application User Interface

1) The QR code is generated in the smartphone application

2) QR code is printed and then applied to the box of recovered food

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Harvard Graduate School of Design | REALTIME CITIES 2014 | Food Recovery Network | Kalisha Holmes

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Smartphone Application User Interface

3) QR code is then scanned using the smartphone application twice: once at site of recovery and once at site of delivery

4) The information embedded in the QR code is then sent to a central server

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Food Delivery

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Food Recovery Network:

Virtual InterfaceMockup

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Mockup of the Virtual Interface -- Home Page

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Currently, Food Recovery Network has a website, but the proposed technological retrofitting of their website will: 1) strengthen their brand, 2) simplify navigation and 3) add new functionalities.

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Harvard Graduate School of Design | REALTIME CITIES 2014 | Food Recovery Network | Kalisha Holmes

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Case Study 1 (Interactive Map): UshahidiFunctions Inspired by Ushahidi:

- Bubbles as visual representation of size of data requests from a specific geographic location

- Real-time updates visually shown on the map application

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Mockup of the Virtual Interface -- Interactive Map [zoomed out]

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The new interactive map will feature real-time updates on new chapters and offer more detailed information on food recovered, all displayed in an interactive format for the user

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Mockup of the Virtual Interface -- Interactive Map [zoomed in to city level]

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The user will be able to zoom in and see chapters at the city level, and will have a variety of ways to filter information about food recovery at specific chapters.

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Mockup of the Virtual Interface -- Interactive Map [zoomed in to individual school level]01|Prototype Implementation

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At the individual school level, the user will see the bubble visualization of the amount of food recovered with the radius of the circle corresponding to amount of food recovered as well as detailed information about that specific chapter

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Mockup of the Virtual Interface -- Interactive Map [zoomed in to most extreme level]

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Finally, at the most extreme level of zoom on the interactive map, the area of the city served by the chapter will be highlighted to visualize the local impact of each FRN chapter.

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- I was primarily inspired by the easy-to-navigate organization of Meetup using geography is a filter

- I was also inspired by the functionality of the website, that allows members to easily see shared calendars, suggest new events, and take polls of the group

- Finally, it has a clean visual aesthetic that I thought would match well with the Food Recovery Network brand

Case Study 2 (Social Network Interface): Meetup.com

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Case Study 2: Meetup.com (continued)

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- Members can make goals

- Members can communicate with each other

Organized by chapters in order to promote internal communications

Tool to allow chapters to communicate with each other in order to promote external connections

- Ability to create schedules of volunteers

- Ability to create teams who can then compete within a chapter

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Social Media Functionality

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Mockup of the Virtual Interface -- Social Media Home

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The social media homepage will feature local chapter food recovery efforts based on current geographic location (using IP address of web user)

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Mockup of the Virtual Interface -- Social Media: Chapter Page

Once the user clicks on a chapter page, members will have the ability to interact with other chapter members and share photos, create teams, start discussions, etc.

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Mockup of the Virtual Interface -- FRN Certification01|Prototype Implementation

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Food Recovery Network already has a certification process for independent establishments like restaurants to display their membership, but the technological retrofitting would streamline the certification process online and add a dynamic digital counter to each certificate displaying recovery efforts publicly and in real-time

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FRN Certification Interface

The data to update this certificate will come from the central server which will tabulate the number of meals recovered for each chapter using the information input via QR code

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Working Prototype of the FRN Digital Certificate

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Food Recovery Network:

Temporary Nodes.Temporary Ties

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As a platform for temporary food recoverers and potential drivers, Lyft – the ride-sharing social app inspired the design

Functions Inspired by Lyft:

- Application user interface allows unaffiliated partners to engage in one-time transactions

- Physical branding of cars immediately creates trust with end-users

Case Study 3 (Platform for Temporary Users): Lyft

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FRN Smartphone Application User Interface: Temporary Nodes

Currently, Food Recovery Network does not have a mechanism for non-affiliated institutions to donate food. The model currently accounts only for institutions who have chronic food surpluses.

Problem: There are institutions that may have a one-time large food surplus, and they should be able to plug into the Network as well

Solution: The smartphone application will have a mechanism for temporary nodes to donate their food one-time only

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FRN Smartphone Application User Interface: Temporary Ties

Additionally, without the chapter model, this platform will also need to incorporate temporary transportation and volunteers

Problem: There are also volunteers who may not be able to dedicate a steady amount of time, but could do a one-time volunteer stint

Solution: The smartphone application will also have a mechanism to incorporate temporary ties into the system

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Temporary Ties Branding

Following the Lyft model, and to further achieve the project goal of increasing the visibility of the Food Recovery Network brand, one-time volunteer transporters (temporary ties) can drive with a branding item indicating they are affiliated with the Food Recovery Network

Lyft Car Food Recovery Network Car

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Food Recovery Network:Dynamic

Visualizations

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Art Commission -- Balloon as a Visual Dramatization of Weekly Quantity of Food Recovery

At Food Recovery Network headquarters at the University of Maryland College Park, an art commission will help to dynamically visualize food recovery efforts. The balloon can be programmed to inflate and deflate based on the amount of food recovered on a weekly basis further increasing the visibility of the Food Recovery Network brand

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Required Expertise Chart

Technical Need

-Web Development

-App Development

-Electrical Coding & Rapid Prototyping

Position Title

-Web Developer

-App Developer

-Architect