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Part 7: Workshops; International audience; Growing food presents diverse challenges and opportunities withinthe urban environment. As cities develop, population density rises, land pricesrise, and the opportunity to use land for traditional farming and gardening diminishes.Counter to this trend there are a growing number of community gardens,city farms, guerrilla gardening, rooftop and vertical gardens, pot plants,windowsill herbs, and other balcony or backyard gardens cropping up in cities,all with a purpose to produce food. This workshop brings together practitionersand researchers in the field of urban agriculture and Human-Computer Interactionto explore and opportunities for technology design to support differentforms of growing practice and foster local food production in cities.This 1-day workshop will serve as an active forum for researchers andpractitioners across various fields including, but not limited to, agriculture andgardening, education, urban planning, human-computer interaction, andcommunity engagement. This workshop has three distinct points of focus: i) Individualand small-scale gardening and food production, and how to connectlike-minded people who are involved in these practices to share their knowledgeii) Communities involved in urban agriculture, either through communitygardens, city farms, or grassroots movements, often dependent on volunteerparticipation, providing the challenge of managing limited resources iii) Environmentaland sociocultural sustainability through urban agriculture..The participants will have an opportunity to present their own work. Thiswill be followed by a visit to a nearby city farm, which will provide a local contextfor a group design exercise. Finally the workshop will conclude with paneldiscussions to review opportunities for further research and collaborationsbeyond the conference.For more information, please visit the workshop website, athttp://www.urbaninformatics.net/resources/interact2013cfp/

Growing food presents diverse challenges and opportunities within the urban environment. As cities develop, population density rises, land prices rise, and the opportunity to use land for traditional farming and gardening diminishes. Counter to this trend there are a growing number of both community gardens, city farms, guerrilla gardening, rooftop and vertical gardens, pot plants, windowsill herbs, and other balcony or backyard gardens cropping up in different cities, all with a purpose to produce food. This workshop brings to-gether practitioners and researchers in the field of urban agriculture and Hu-man-Computer Interaction to explore and opportunities for technology design to support the different forms of growing practice and foster local food production in cities. This 1-day workshop will serve as an active forum for researchers and practi-tioners across various fields including, but not limited to, agriculture and gar-dening, education, urban planning, human-computer interaction, and communi-ty engagement. This workshop has three distinct points of focus: i) Individual and small-scale gardening and food production, and how to connect like minded people who are involved in these practices to share their knowledge ii) Com-munities involved in urban agriculture, either through community gardens, city farms, or grassroots movements, often dependant on volunteer participation, providing the challenge of managing limited resources iii) Environmental and sociocultural sustainability through urban agriculture. The participants will have an opportunity to present their own work. This will be followed by a visit to a nearby city farm, which will provide a local context for a group design exercise. Finally the workshop will conclude with panel dis-cussions to review opportunities for further research and collaborations beyond the conference. For more information, please visit the workshop website, at http://www.urbaninformatics.net/resources/interact2013cfp/

This position paper describes the work in progress towards the goal of building a technical prototype that enables users – those who have little or no knowledge and experience engaging in urban agriculture – to receive information personalised to their location and situation, and allow them to ask questions and share experiences with others. We describe the design process thus far, informed by a survey and a workshop with experts in the field, before concluding with the future direction of this work.