What design interventions can catalyze a positive shift towards healthy, climate-positive behaviors and enjoyable and educational experiences during school meals? Building on previous school food-environment research, we developed a guideline using a foodscape approach to achieve school food goals centered on health, climate, and wellbeing. A foodscape approach focuses on how built spaces and student life intersect and how the built environment shapes food-related behaviors and experiences. The foodscape conceptual framework can provide a common lexicon for designers, students, school management, foodservice contractors, and school districts to translate food goals into their own built spaces and policy. This document elaborates the potential of design to build health, climate-positive foodscapes in four parts:
1. Develop a set of K-12 food goals that benefit health, climate, and experience.
2. Unpack key barriers to reach food goals.
3. Develop design strategies that help schools overcome barriers to food goals.
4. Combine strategies in Foodscape Concepts that explore their spatial, operational and policy implications.