Slant was an app that aimed to promote sustainable food by creating a platform for users to influence each other’s decisions. Winning project of the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge 2016.
The ant colony optimization system was the inspiration for Slant’s biomimicry.
Year: 2016 – 2017
Role: Researcher, Ideation, Food Security.
Team: Laura Cussen (Biomimicry), José Hernández (Coordinator), Francisco Humeres (Data Science), Paloma González (Design), Carla Muttoni (Business model).
Partner: Universal Projects
Funding: Biomimicry Global Design Challenge.
Slant is a platform that aims to foster sustainable food consumption and efficient food distribution through the exchange of georeferenced information between consumers, farmers and sellers. Slant takes inspiration from the way social insects share information about quality food sources, helping individuals in our own communities influence each other’s decisions for an emergent food system that is as equitable as it is resilient and sustainable. The system tracks your food from its origin, giving you the information about its production, transportation and distribution, and encouraging you to make more sustainable decisions. Slant helps communities become more resilient by encouraging people to buy locally grown food from their own neighbors, making the entire food system more equitable. The service also helps communities establish new food stores in places where there is a low food supply, combating food deserts. In this way, Slant meets the need for transparency in the food supply chain, fostering informed decision-making by individuals that in turn help their communities at the local scale, and the global distribution of food and sustainable use of resources at a planetary scale.
