Sustainable Conversations: A Visual Food Ethnography

Ariana Scheuer’s Custom-Designed major, “Environmental Conservation & Outreach Through Storytelling,” incorporates pillars focused on visual and verbal communications, environmental studies, and humanities. Her capstone project is a photographic book which incorporates a variety of participants’ stories about the relevance of food and sustainability in their lives, how those themes interconnect, and images of their cooking process during one of their weekly meals. The intention of this project is to bring awareness to the variety of ways that people define and incorporate sustainability in their lives, and how ‘food sustainability’ can look many different ways.