Designing an Online Workshop for Creativity and Value Co-creation: Three Case Studies in Gastronomic Sciences on Viewpoint Setting and Sustainability Education

To co-create value in sustainable communities, it is essential to understand the nature of social issues from multiple perspectives and to communicate and dialogue with people with different values and expertise from a comprehensive and integrated perspective. This study poses the following two research questions 1) What are the key components of an effective online sustainability education workshop that encourages active participation and dialogue? and 2) How can the integration of food and local resources in online workshops enhance participants’ awareness and understanding of sustainability? In this research, we develop an online workshop to connect the world on the theme of food as knowledge acquisition and exchange (in food contexts). We focus on communication and interaction between different actors in the creation of local industries using food and local resources. The aim of this research project, called “GAstroEdu”, is to develop an online workshop for creativity and value co-creation that supports value co-creation among different stakeholders in the region and encourages participants to set their own points of view and learn from them. As an implementation, we present three GAstroEdu projects. Tomato Adventure for elementary school students, Lemon Adventure2 held in Setoda, Onomichi, Hiroshima, and Potato Adventure Workshop held in Kutchan-cho, Hokkaido.