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<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person.<br />
Those who still want to benefit from the course can view the presentations and recordings, which will be available after each session. These will be presented on the bottom of this page. [[https://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php/Seminar_schedule_2023|Presentations and recordings of the previous course in 2023 can be found here]].<br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge. Participants who follow the course only in lecture mode, will not receive a certificate.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions. Participants who succesfully complete the assignment will receive a certificate for the course.<br />
<br />
=Phases and sessions of the course=<br />
Here you will find the presentations and recordings after each session. Those of the [[Seminar_schedule_2023|previous seminar in 2023 can be found here.]]<br />
<br />
==Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024==<br />
''Themes: Main challenges, Theoretical frameworks, Approaches and methods: PAR, living labs, analysing methods; Defining your position and values <br />
<br />
''* Understands the concept of food systems in their cultural, local and regional setting. <br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to participatory learning and research and the role of living labs.<br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to sustainable food planning.<br />
* Is aware of contemporary challenges to sustainable food systems in the context of spatial planning.<br />
* Develops an understanding of the multiple dimensions of food systems: social, environmental, economic and spatial.<br />
* Can define her/his own position and values regarding sustainable food planning.''''<br />
<br />
===Session February 29, 2024===<br />
Roxana Triboi, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented an overview of the seminar with the main learning goals and Jeroen de Vries introduced the main concepts and the assignments. Damien Conaré, l'Institut Agro Montpellier, provided insight into the field of play, looking back at the development of food systems and showing the impact of the current system. He presented current initiatives and policies for sustainable food planning. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2332_download&client_id=main You can view the PowerPoint here.]<br />
<br />
===Session March 7, 2024===<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute presented a recap on the first session and highlighted the discourse that Chiara Tornaghi proposed in her paper on the Food Disabling City. The Long Food Movement report shows a positive scenario with a bottom-up approach that is empowered by civil society, in which each of us can choose a pathway that is most suited. The policy document for Agroforestry in the Netherlands shows how a multi-level approach can link niche initiatives to national and regional policies. Michiel Dehaene, Universiteit Gent, presented the development of the approach of an AGroecological Urbanism, with a set of building blocks that can be used as thematic entries for all planners. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2334_download&client_id=main You can view the powerpoint presentation here.]<br />
<br />
==Presentation of the introduction of participatory action research March 5, 2024==<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented quality criteria, validation, and methods for participatory action research based on the publication of Wood and his experience in the Landscape Democracy Project. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2333_download&client_id=main You can view the presentation here.]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Phase 2: Food mapping: analysing your local foodscape sessions on March 14 and 21, 2024==<br />
<br />
''Themes: Mapping a food system; Mapping the stakeholders, consumers, and policymakers (power mapping); SWOT analysis'' <br />
<br />
* ''Can map and evaluate a concrete situation of a food system.''<br />
* ''Can select the most adequate methods and tools to be applied for analysis and evaluation.''<br />
* ''Can identify stakeholders and power structures in a new and unknown context.''<br />
* ''Can map a local or city/region food system.''<br />
* ''Can define the most relevant challenges in a collaborative way.''<br />
<br />
===Session March 14, 2024===<br />
The second phase focuses on the mapping of food systems. Marian Simón Rojo of UPM gave an introduction on the relevance of mapping for starting transformative actions and presented an overview of the types of mapping. Katrin Bohn, of Bohn&Viljoen Architects & the School of Architecture & Design of the University of Brighton, presented several projects and how mapping played a role in them. You can review the recording of the presentation here. <br />
<br />
===Session March 21, 2024===<br />
The second session on food mapping with introductions by Jessica Milgroom, Assistant Professor (Research), Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience on Mapping for food-system change. She presented a research on the typology of various ways of mapping and the way these are used for transformation. Most maps were developed over a longer period, which calls for a curator for the map. An important conclusion is that you first need to define your goal for mapping and if it is a snapshot for analysis or a long-term map. <br />
<br />
Ana Zazo Moratalla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain), presented the detailed mapping for the city of Concepción in Chili, which served as a basis for a food strategy for the metropolitan area. The main goal was to understand the food system with its food sheds and it resilience and the food security for the inhabitants. An important element are the street markets which provide 75% of the fresh food. The research analysed the service areas of street markets and supermarkets, the production areas. It addresses both the conventonial system and the local food system, with alternative networks. Material can be found on http://leu.servicios.ubiobio.cl<br />
<br />
===Additional Question and Answer Session March 28, 2024===<br />
On Thursday, March 28, from 17-18h CEST there is an open Question & Answer session for participants. All can ask questions on the content of the lecture of the phases 1 and 2, the reading material, the assignments, the living labs, etcetera. Answers that can not be handled during the online session will be collected and later presented to the participants. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Phase 3. Objectives: Collaborative goals and vision==<br />
<br />
''Themes: Collaborative goal setting; Selecting the challenges to address''<br />
* ''Can apply techniques of collaborative goal setting.''<br />
* ''Can formulate an approach and/or a possible solution for a selected challenge that is related to his/her own competences and role in the system.''<br />
<br />
Sessions will be on April 4 and 11, 2024.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Phase 4: Strategy and interventions==<br />
<br />
''Themes: Scenarios, alternatives, strategy, prototyping, testing''<br />
* ''Can develop a strategy based on a joint vision making use of methods of scenario planning of alternatives.''<br />
* ''Can select and apply methods and tools for prototyping.''<br />
* ''Can develop a prototype based on the strategy and present it to/ discuss it with others for testing and evaluating.''<br />
<br />
Sessions will be on April 25 and May 16, 2024.<br />
<br />
==Phase 5: Evaluation & monitoring== <br />
<br />
''Themes: collaborative evaluation; self-reflection''<br />
<br />
* ''Is able to have a critical reflection of the role of the planner in a pluralistic society (expert vs facilitator).''<br />
* ''Is able to reflect on his/her own process, using feedback from others reflecting on cultural, social and economic differences.'' <br />
<br />
The session will be on June 13, 2024.</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=700AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-03-24T09:27:49Z<p>Admin: </p>
<hr />
<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person.<br />
Those who still want to benefit from the course can view the presentations and recordings, which will be available after each session. These will be presented on the bottom of this page. [[https://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php/Seminar_schedule_2023|Presentations and recordings of the previous course in 2023 can be found here]].<br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.<br />
<br />
=Phases and sessions of the course=<br />
Here you will find the presentations and recordings after each session. Those of the [[Seminar_schedule_2023|previous seminar in 2023 can be found here.]]<br />
<br />
==Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024==<br />
''Themes: Main challenges, Theoretical frameworks, Approaches and methods: PAR, living labs, analysing methods; Defining your position and values <br />
<br />
''* Understands the concept of food systems in their cultural, local and regional setting. <br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to participatory learning and research and the role of living labs.<br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to sustainable food planning.<br />
* Is aware of contemporary challenges to sustainable food systems in the context of spatial planning.<br />
* Develops an understanding of the multiple dimensions of food systems: social, environmental, economic and spatial.<br />
* Can define her/his own position and values regarding sustainable food planning.''''<br />
<br />
===Session February 29, 2024===<br />
Roxana Triboi, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented an overview of the seminar with the main learning goals and Jeroen de Vries introduced the main concepts and the assignments. Damien Conaré, l'Institut Agro Montpellier, provided insight into the field of play, looking back at the development of food systems and showing the impact of the current system. He presented current initiatives and policies for sustainable food planning. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2332_download&client_id=main You can view the PowerPoint here.]<br />
<br />
===Session March 7, 2024===<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute presented a recap on the first session and highlighted the discourse that Chiara Tornaghi proposed in her paper on the Food Disabling City. The Long Food Movement report shows a positive scenario with a bottom-up approach that is empowered by civil society, in which each of us can choose a pathway that is most suited. The policy document for Agroforestry in the Netherlands shows how a multi-level approach can link niche initiatives to national and regional policies. Michiel Dehaene, Universiteit Gent, presented the development of the approach of an AGroecological Urbanism, with a set of building blocks that can be used as thematic entries for all planners. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2334_download&client_id=main You can view the powerpoint presentation here.]<br />
<br />
==Presentation of the introduction of participatory action research March 5, 2024==<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented quality criteria, validation, and methods for participatory action research based on the publication of Wood and his experience in the Landscape Democracy Project. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2333_download&client_id=main You can view the presentation here.]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Phase 2: Food mapping: analysing your local foodscape sessions on March 14 and 21, 2024==<br />
<br />
''Themes: Mapping a food system; Mapping the stakeholders, consumers, and policymakers (power mapping); SWOT analysis'' <br />
<br />
* ''Can map and evaluate a concrete situation of a food system.''<br />
* ''Can select the most adequate methods and tools to be applied for analysis and evaluation.''<br />
* ''Can identify stakeholders and power structures in a new and unknown context.''<br />
* ''Can map a local or city/region food system.''<br />
* ''Can define the most relevant challenges in a collaborative way.''<br />
<br />
===Session March 14, 2024===<br />
The second phase focuses on the mapping of food systems. Marian Simón Rojo of UPM gave an introduction on the relevance of mapping for starting transformative actions and presented an overview of the types of mapping. Katrin Bohn, of Bohn&Viljoen Architects & the School of Architecture & Design of the University of Brighton, presented several projects and how mapping played a role in them. You can review the recording of the presentation here. <br />
<br />
===Session March 21, 2024===<br />
The second session on food mapping with introductions by Jessica Milgroom, Assistant Professor (Research), Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience on Mapping for food-system change. She presented a research on the typology of various ways of mapping and the way these are used for transformation. Most maps were developed over a longer period, which calls for a curator for the map. An important conclusion is that you first need to define your goal for mapping and if it is a snapshot for analysis or a long-term map. <br />
<br />
Ana Zazo Moratalla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain), presented the detailed mapping for the city of Concepción in Chili, which served as a basis for a food strategy for the metropolitan area. The main goal was to understand the food system with its food sheds and it resilience and the food security for the inhabitants. An important element are the street markets which provide 75% of the fresh food. The research analysed the service areas of street markets and supermarkets, the production areas. It addresses both the conventonial system and the local food system, with alternative networks. Material can be found on http://leu.servicios.ubiobio.cl<br />
<br />
===Additional Question and Answer Session March 28, 2024===<br />
On Thursday, March 28, from 17-18h CEST there is an open Question & Answer session for participants. All can ask questions on the content of the lecture of the phases 1 and 2, the reading material, the assignments, the living labs, etcetera. Answers that can not be handled during the online session will be collected and later presented to the participants. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Phase 3. Objectives: Collaborative goals and vision==<br />
<br />
''Themes: Collaborative goal setting; Selecting the challenges to address''<br />
* ''Can apply techniques of collaborative goal setting.''<br />
* ''Can formulate an approach and/or a possible solution for a selected challenge that is related to his/her own competences and role in the system.''<br />
<br />
Sessions will be on April 4 and 11, 2024.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Phase 4: Strategy and interventions==<br />
<br />
''Themes: Scenarios, alternatives, strategy, prototyping, testing''<br />
* ''Can develop a strategy based on a joint vision making use of methods of scenario planning of alternatives.''<br />
* ''Can select and apply methods and tools for prototyping.''<br />
* ''Can develop a prototype based on the strategy and present it to/ discuss it with others for testing and evaluating.''<br />
<br />
Sessions will be on April 25 and May 16, 2024.<br />
<br />
==Phase 5: Evaluation & monitoring== <br />
<br />
''Themes: collaborative evaluation; self-reflection''<br />
<br />
* ''Is able to have a critical reflection of the role of the planner in a pluralistic society (expert vs facilitator).''<br />
* ''Is able to reflect on his/her own process, using feedback from others reflecting on cultural, social and economic differences.'' <br />
<br />
The session will be on June 13, 2024.</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=699AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-03-24T09:19:06Z<p>Admin: /* Phase 2: Food mapping: analysing your local foodscape sessions on March 14 and 21, 2024 */</p>
<hr />
<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person.<br />
Those who still want to benefit from the course can view the presentations and recordings, which will be available after each session. These will be presented on the bottom of this page. [[https://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php/Seminar_schedule_2023|Presentations and recordings of the previous course in 2023 can be found here]].<br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.<br />
<br />
=Phases and sessions of the course=<br />
Here you will find the presentations and recordings after each session. Those of the [[Seminar_schedule_2023|previous seminar in 2023 can be found here.]]<br />
<br />
==Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024==<br />
''Themes: Main challenges, Theoretical frameworks, Approaches and methods: PAR, living labs, analysing methods; Defining your position and values <br />
<br />
''* Understands the concept of food systems in their cultural, local and regional setting. <br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to participatory learning and research and the role of living labs.<br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to sustainable food planning.<br />
* Is aware of contemporary challenges to sustainable food systems in the context of spatial planning.<br />
* Develops an understanding of the multiple dimensions of food systems: social, environmental, economic and spatial.<br />
* Can define her/his own position and values regarding sustainable food planning.''''<br />
<br />
===Session February 29, 2024===<br />
Roxana Triboi, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented an overview of the seminar with the main learning goals and Jeroen de Vries introduced the main concepts and the assignments. Damien Conaré, l'Institut Agro Montpellier, provided insight into the field of play, looking back at the development of food systems and showing the impact of the current system. He presented current initiatives and policies for sustainable food planning. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2332_download&client_id=main You can view the PowerPoint here.]<br />
<br />
===Session March 7, 2024===<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute presented a recap on the first session and highlighted the discourse that Chiara Tornaghi proposed in her paper on the Food Disabling City. The Long Food Movement report shows a positive scenario with a bottom-up approach that is empowered by civil society, in which each of us can choose a pathway that is most suited. The policy document for Agroforestry in the Netherlands shows how a multi-level approach can link niche initiatives to national and regional policies. Michiel Dehaene, Universiteit Gent, presented the development of the approach of an AGroecological Urbanism, with a set of building blocks that can be used as thematic entries for all planners. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2334_download&client_id=main You can view the powerpoint presentation here.]<br />
<br />
==Presentation of the introduction of participatory action research March 5, 2024==<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented quality criteria, validation, and methods for participatory action research based on the publication of Wood and his experience in the Landscape Democracy Project. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2333_download&client_id=main You can view the presentation here.]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Phase 2: Food mapping: analysing your local foodscape sessions on March 14 and 21, 2024==<br />
<br />
''Themes: Mapping a food system; Mapping the stakeholders, consumers, and policymakers (power mapping); SWOT analysis'' <br />
<br />
* ''Can map and evaluate a concrete situation of a food system.''<br />
* ''Can select the most adequate methods and tools to be applied for analysis and evaluation.''<br />
* ''Can identify stakeholders and power structures in a new and unknown context.''<br />
* ''Can map a local or city/region food system.''<br />
* ''Can define the most relevant challenges in a collaborative way.''<br />
<br />
===Session March 14, 2024===<br />
The second phase focuses on the mapping of food systems. Marian Simón Rojo of UPM gave an introduction on the relevance of mapping for starting transformative actions and presented an overview of the types of mapping. Katrin Bohn, of Bohn&Viljoen Architects & the School of Architecture & Design of the University of Brighton, presented several projects and how mapping played a role in them. You can review the recording of the presentation here. <br />
<br />
===Session March 21, 2024===<br />
The second session on food mapping with introductions by Jessica Milgroom, Assistant Professor (Research), Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience on Mapping for food-system change. She presented a research on the typology of various ways of mapping and the way these are used for transformation. Most maps were developed over a longer period, which calls for a curator for the map. An important conclusion is that you first need to define your goal for mapping and if it is a snapshot for analysis or a long-term map. <br />
<br />
Ana Zazo Moratalla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain), presented the detailed mapping for the city of Concepción in Chili, which served as a basis for a food strategy for the metropolitan area. The main goal was to understand the food system with its food sheds and it resilience and the food security for the inhabitants. An important element are the street markets which provide 75% of the fresh food. The research analysed the service areas of street markets and supermarkets, the production areas. It addresses both the conventonial system and the local food system, with alternative networks. Material can be found on http://leu.servicios.ubiobio.cl<br />
<br />
==Phase 3. Objectives: Collaborative goals and vision==<br />
<br />
''Themes: Collaborative goal setting; Selecting the challenges to address''<br />
* ''Can apply techniques of collaborative goal setting.''<br />
* ''Can formulate an approach and/or a possible solution for a selected challenge that is related to his/her own competences and role in the system.''<br />
<br />
==Phase 4: Strategy and interventions==<br />
<br />
Themes: Scenarios, alternatives, strategy, prototyping, testing<br />
* Can develop a strategy based on a joint vision making use of methods of scenario planning of alternatives.<br />
* Can select and apply methods and tools for prototyping.<br />
* Can develop a prototype based on the strategy and present it to/ discuss it with others for testing and evaluating.<br />
<br />
==Phase 5: Evaluation & monitoring== <br />
<br />
Themes: collaborative evaluation; self-reflection<br />
<br />
* Is able to have a critical reflection of the role of the planner in a pluralistic society (expert vs facilitator).<br />
* Is able to reflect on his/her own process, using feedback from others reflecting on cultural, social and economic differences. </div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=698AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-03-24T09:18:13Z<p>Admin: /* Phase 3. Objectives: Collaborative goals and vision */</p>
<hr />
<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person.<br />
Those who still want to benefit from the course can view the presentations and recordings, which will be available after each session. These will be presented on the bottom of this page. [[https://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php/Seminar_schedule_2023|Presentations and recordings of the previous course in 2023 can be found here]].<br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.<br />
<br />
=Phases and sessions of the course=<br />
Here you will find the presentations and recordings after each session. Those of the [[Seminar_schedule_2023|previous seminar in 2023 can be found here.]]<br />
<br />
==Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024==<br />
''Themes: Main challenges, Theoretical frameworks, Approaches and methods: PAR, living labs, analysing methods; Defining your position and values <br />
<br />
''* Understands the concept of food systems in their cultural, local and regional setting. <br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to participatory learning and research and the role of living labs.<br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to sustainable food planning.<br />
* Is aware of contemporary challenges to sustainable food systems in the context of spatial planning.<br />
* Develops an understanding of the multiple dimensions of food systems: social, environmental, economic and spatial.<br />
* Can define her/his own position and values regarding sustainable food planning.''''<br />
<br />
===Session February 29, 2024===<br />
Roxana Triboi, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented an overview of the seminar with the main learning goals and Jeroen de Vries introduced the main concepts and the assignments. Damien Conaré, l'Institut Agro Montpellier, provided insight into the field of play, looking back at the development of food systems and showing the impact of the current system. He presented current initiatives and policies for sustainable food planning. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2332_download&client_id=main You can view the PowerPoint here.]<br />
<br />
===Session March 7, 2024===<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute presented a recap on the first session and highlighted the discourse that Chiara Tornaghi proposed in her paper on the Food Disabling City. The Long Food Movement report shows a positive scenario with a bottom-up approach that is empowered by civil society, in which each of us can choose a pathway that is most suited. The policy document for Agroforestry in the Netherlands shows how a multi-level approach can link niche initiatives to national and regional policies. Michiel Dehaene, Universiteit Gent, presented the development of the approach of an AGroecological Urbanism, with a set of building blocks that can be used as thematic entries for all planners. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2334_download&client_id=main You can view the powerpoint presentation here.]<br />
<br />
==Presentation of the introduction of participatory action research March 5, 2024==<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented quality criteria, validation, and methods for participatory action research based on the publication of Wood and his experience in the Landscape Democracy Project. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2333_download&client_id=main You can view the presentation here.]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Phase 2: Food mapping: analysing your local foodscape sessions on March 14 and 21, 2024==<br />
<br />
''Themes: Mapping a food system; Mapping the stakeholders, consumers, and policymakers (power mapping); SWOT analysis <br />
<br />
* Can map and evaluate a concrete situation of a food system.<br />
* Can select the most adequate methods and tools to be applied for analysis and evaluation.<br />
* Can identify stakeholders and power structures in a new and unknown context.<br />
* Can map a local or city/region food system.<br />
* Can define the most relevant challenges in a collaborative way.''<br />
<br />
===Session March 14, 2024===<br />
The second phase focuses on the mapping of food systems. Marian Simón Rojo of UPM gave an introduction on the relevance of mapping for starting transformative actions and presented an overview of the types of mapping. Katrin Bohn, of Bohn&Viljoen Architects & the School of Architecture & Design of the University of Brighton, presented several projects and how mapping played a role in them. You can review the recording of the presentation here. <br />
<br />
===Session March 21, 2024===<br />
The second session on food mapping with introductions by Jessica Milgroom, Assistant Professor (Research), Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience on Mapping for food-system change. She presented a research on the typology of various ways of mapping and the way these are used for transformation. Most maps were developed over a longer period, which calls for a curator for the map. An important conclusion is that you first need to define your goal for mapping and if it is a snapshot for analysis or a long-term map. <br />
<br />
Ana Zazo Moratalla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain), presented the detailed mapping for the city of Concepción in Chili, which served as a basis for a food strategy for the metropolitan area. The main goal was to understand the food system with its food sheds and it resilience and the food security for the inhabitants. An important element are the street markets which provide 75% of the fresh food. The research analysed the service areas of street markets and supermarkets, the production areas. It addresses both the conventonial system and the local food system, with alternative networks. Material can be found on http://leu.servicios.ubiobio.cl<br />
<br />
==Phase 3. Objectives: Collaborative goals and vision==<br />
<br />
''Themes: Collaborative goal setting; Selecting the challenges to address''<br />
* ''Can apply techniques of collaborative goal setting.''<br />
* ''Can formulate an approach and/or a possible solution for a selected challenge that is related to his/her own competences and role in the system.''<br />
<br />
==Phase 4: Strategy and interventions==<br />
<br />
Themes: Scenarios, alternatives, strategy, prototyping, testing<br />
* Can develop a strategy based on a joint vision making use of methods of scenario planning of alternatives.<br />
* Can select and apply methods and tools for prototyping.<br />
* Can develop a prototype based on the strategy and present it to/ discuss it with others for testing and evaluating.<br />
<br />
==Phase 5: Evaluation & monitoring== <br />
<br />
Themes: collaborative evaluation; self-reflection<br />
<br />
* Is able to have a critical reflection of the role of the planner in a pluralistic society (expert vs facilitator).<br />
* Is able to reflect on his/her own process, using feedback from others reflecting on cultural, social and economic differences. </div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=697AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-03-24T09:17:35Z<p>Admin: /* Phase 3. Collaborative goals and vision */</p>
<hr />
<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person.<br />
Those who still want to benefit from the course can view the presentations and recordings, which will be available after each session. These will be presented on the bottom of this page. [[https://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php/Seminar_schedule_2023|Presentations and recordings of the previous course in 2023 can be found here]].<br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.<br />
<br />
=Phases and sessions of the course=<br />
Here you will find the presentations and recordings after each session. Those of the [[Seminar_schedule_2023|previous seminar in 2023 can be found here.]]<br />
<br />
==Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024==<br />
''Themes: Main challenges, Theoretical frameworks, Approaches and methods: PAR, living labs, analysing methods; Defining your position and values <br />
<br />
''* Understands the concept of food systems in their cultural, local and regional setting. <br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to participatory learning and research and the role of living labs.<br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to sustainable food planning.<br />
* Is aware of contemporary challenges to sustainable food systems in the context of spatial planning.<br />
* Develops an understanding of the multiple dimensions of food systems: social, environmental, economic and spatial.<br />
* Can define her/his own position and values regarding sustainable food planning.''''<br />
<br />
===Session February 29, 2024===<br />
Roxana Triboi, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented an overview of the seminar with the main learning goals and Jeroen de Vries introduced the main concepts and the assignments. Damien Conaré, l'Institut Agro Montpellier, provided insight into the field of play, looking back at the development of food systems and showing the impact of the current system. He presented current initiatives and policies for sustainable food planning. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2332_download&client_id=main You can view the PowerPoint here.]<br />
<br />
===Session March 7, 2024===<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute presented a recap on the first session and highlighted the discourse that Chiara Tornaghi proposed in her paper on the Food Disabling City. The Long Food Movement report shows a positive scenario with a bottom-up approach that is empowered by civil society, in which each of us can choose a pathway that is most suited. The policy document for Agroforestry in the Netherlands shows how a multi-level approach can link niche initiatives to national and regional policies. Michiel Dehaene, Universiteit Gent, presented the development of the approach of an AGroecological Urbanism, with a set of building blocks that can be used as thematic entries for all planners. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2334_download&client_id=main You can view the powerpoint presentation here.]<br />
<br />
==Presentation of the introduction of participatory action research March 5, 2024==<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented quality criteria, validation, and methods for participatory action research based on the publication of Wood and his experience in the Landscape Democracy Project. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2333_download&client_id=main You can view the presentation here.]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Phase 2: Food mapping: analysing your local foodscape sessions on March 14 and 21, 2024==<br />
<br />
''Themes: Mapping a food system; Mapping the stakeholders, consumers, and policymakers (power mapping); SWOT analysis <br />
<br />
* Can map and evaluate a concrete situation of a food system.<br />
* Can select the most adequate methods and tools to be applied for analysis and evaluation.<br />
* Can identify stakeholders and power structures in a new and unknown context.<br />
* Can map a local or city/region food system.<br />
* Can define the most relevant challenges in a collaborative way.''<br />
<br />
===Session March 14, 2024===<br />
The second phase focuses on the mapping of food systems. Marian Simón Rojo of UPM gave an introduction on the relevance of mapping for starting transformative actions and presented an overview of the types of mapping. Katrin Bohn, of Bohn&Viljoen Architects & the School of Architecture & Design of the University of Brighton, presented several projects and how mapping played a role in them. You can review the recording of the presentation here. <br />
<br />
===Session March 21, 2024===<br />
The second session on food mapping with introductions by Jessica Milgroom, Assistant Professor (Research), Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience on Mapping for food-system change. She presented a research on the typology of various ways of mapping and the way these are used for transformation. Most maps were developed over a longer period, which calls for a curator for the map. An important conclusion is that you first need to define your goal for mapping and if it is a snapshot for analysis or a long-term map. <br />
<br />
Ana Zazo Moratalla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain), presented the detailed mapping for the city of Concepción in Chili, which served as a basis for a food strategy for the metropolitan area. The main goal was to understand the food system with its food sheds and it resilience and the food security for the inhabitants. An important element are the street markets which provide 75% of the fresh food. The research analysed the service areas of street markets and supermarkets, the production areas. It addresses both the conventonial system and the local food system, with alternative networks. Material can be found on http://leu.servicios.ubiobio.cl<br />
<br />
==Phase 3. Objectives: Collaborative goals and vision==<br />
<br />
Themes: Collaborative goal setting; Selecting the challenges to address<br />
* Can apply techniques of collaborative goal setting.<br />
* Can formulate an approach and/or a possible solution for a selected challenge that is related to his/her own competences and role in the system.<br />
<br />
==Phase 4: Strategy and interventions==<br />
<br />
Themes: Scenarios, alternatives, strategy, prototyping, testing<br />
* Can develop a strategy based on a joint vision making use of methods of scenario planning of alternatives.<br />
* Can select and apply methods and tools for prototyping.<br />
* Can develop a prototype based on the strategy and present it to/ discuss it with others for testing and evaluating.<br />
<br />
==Phase 5: Evaluation & monitoring== <br />
<br />
Themes: collaborative evaluation; self-reflection<br />
<br />
* Is able to have a critical reflection of the role of the planner in a pluralistic society (expert vs facilitator).<br />
* Is able to reflect on his/her own process, using feedback from others reflecting on cultural, social and economic differences. </div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=696AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-03-24T09:17:03Z<p>Admin: /* Phases and sessions of the course */</p>
<hr />
<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person.<br />
Those who still want to benefit from the course can view the presentations and recordings, which will be available after each session. These will be presented on the bottom of this page. [[https://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php/Seminar_schedule_2023|Presentations and recordings of the previous course in 2023 can be found here]].<br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.<br />
<br />
=Phases and sessions of the course=<br />
Here you will find the presentations and recordings after each session. Those of the [[Seminar_schedule_2023|previous seminar in 2023 can be found here.]]<br />
<br />
==Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024==<br />
''Themes: Main challenges, Theoretical frameworks, Approaches and methods: PAR, living labs, analysing methods; Defining your position and values <br />
<br />
''* Understands the concept of food systems in their cultural, local and regional setting. <br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to participatory learning and research and the role of living labs.<br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to sustainable food planning.<br />
* Is aware of contemporary challenges to sustainable food systems in the context of spatial planning.<br />
* Develops an understanding of the multiple dimensions of food systems: social, environmental, economic and spatial.<br />
* Can define her/his own position and values regarding sustainable food planning.''''<br />
<br />
===Session February 29, 2024===<br />
Roxana Triboi, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented an overview of the seminar with the main learning goals and Jeroen de Vries introduced the main concepts and the assignments. Damien Conaré, l'Institut Agro Montpellier, provided insight into the field of play, looking back at the development of food systems and showing the impact of the current system. He presented current initiatives and policies for sustainable food planning. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2332_download&client_id=main You can view the PowerPoint here.]<br />
<br />
===Session March 7, 2024===<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute presented a recap on the first session and highlighted the discourse that Chiara Tornaghi proposed in her paper on the Food Disabling City. The Long Food Movement report shows a positive scenario with a bottom-up approach that is empowered by civil society, in which each of us can choose a pathway that is most suited. The policy document for Agroforestry in the Netherlands shows how a multi-level approach can link niche initiatives to national and regional policies. Michiel Dehaene, Universiteit Gent, presented the development of the approach of an AGroecological Urbanism, with a set of building blocks that can be used as thematic entries for all planners. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2334_download&client_id=main You can view the powerpoint presentation here.]<br />
<br />
==Presentation of the introduction of participatory action research March 5, 2024==<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented quality criteria, validation, and methods for participatory action research based on the publication of Wood and his experience in the Landscape Democracy Project. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2333_download&client_id=main You can view the presentation here.]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Phase 2: Food mapping: analysing your local foodscape sessions on March 14 and 21, 2024==<br />
<br />
''Themes: Mapping a food system; Mapping the stakeholders, consumers, and policymakers (power mapping); SWOT analysis <br />
<br />
* Can map and evaluate a concrete situation of a food system.<br />
* Can select the most adequate methods and tools to be applied for analysis and evaluation.<br />
* Can identify stakeholders and power structures in a new and unknown context.<br />
* Can map a local or city/region food system.<br />
* Can define the most relevant challenges in a collaborative way.''<br />
<br />
===Session March 14, 2024===<br />
The second phase focuses on the mapping of food systems. Marian Simón Rojo of UPM gave an introduction on the relevance of mapping for starting transformative actions and presented an overview of the types of mapping. Katrin Bohn, of Bohn&Viljoen Architects & the School of Architecture & Design of the University of Brighton, presented several projects and how mapping played a role in them. You can review the recording of the presentation here. <br />
<br />
===Session March 21, 2024===<br />
The second session on food mapping with introductions by Jessica Milgroom, Assistant Professor (Research), Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience on Mapping for food-system change. She presented a research on the typology of various ways of mapping and the way these are used for transformation. Most maps were developed over a longer period, which calls for a curator for the map. An important conclusion is that you first need to define your goal for mapping and if it is a snapshot for analysis or a long-term map. <br />
<br />
Ana Zazo Moratalla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain), presented the detailed mapping for the city of Concepción in Chili, which served as a basis for a food strategy for the metropolitan area. The main goal was to understand the food system with its food sheds and it resilience and the food security for the inhabitants. An important element are the street markets which provide 75% of the fresh food. The research analysed the service areas of street markets and supermarkets, the production areas. It addresses both the conventonial system and the local food system, with alternative networks. Material can be found on http://leu.servicios.ubiobio.cl<br />
<br />
==Phase 3. Collaborative goals and vision==<br />
<br />
Themes: Collaborative goal setting; Selecting the challenges to address<br />
* Can apply techniques of collaborative goal setting.<br />
* Can formulate an approach and/or a possible solution for a selected challenge that is related to his/her own competences and role in the system.<br />
<br />
==Phase 4: Strategy and interventions==<br />
<br />
Themes: Scenarios, alternatives, strategy, prototyping, testing<br />
* Can develop a strategy based on a joint vision making use of methods of scenario planning of alternatives.<br />
* Can select and apply methods and tools for prototyping.<br />
* Can develop a prototype based on the strategy and present it to/ discuss it with others for testing and evaluating.<br />
<br />
==Phase 5: Evaluation & monitoring== <br />
<br />
Themes: collaborative evaluation; self-reflection<br />
<br />
* Is able to have a critical reflection of the role of the planner in a pluralistic society (expert vs facilitator).<br />
* Is able to reflect on his/her own process, using feedback from others reflecting on cultural, social and economic differences. </div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=695AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-03-24T09:16:05Z<p>Admin: /* Phase 2: Food mapping: analysing your local foodscape sessions on March 14 and 21, 2024 */</p>
<hr />
<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person.<br />
Those who still want to benefit from the course can view the presentations and recordings, which will be available after each session. These will be presented on the bottom of this page. [[https://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php/Seminar_schedule_2023|Presentations and recordings of the previous course in 2023 can be found here]].<br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.<br />
<br />
=Phases and sessions of the course=<br />
Here you will find the presentations and recordings after each session. Those of the [[Seminar_schedule_2023|previous seminar in 2023 can be found here.]]<br />
<br />
==Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024==<br />
''Themes: Main challenges, Theoretical frameworks, Approaches and methods: PAR, living labs, analysing methods; Defining your position and values <br />
<br />
''* Understands the concept of food systems in their cultural, local and regional setting. <br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to participatory learning and research and the role of living labs.<br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to sustainable food planning.<br />
* Is aware of contemporary challenges to sustainable food systems in the context of spatial planning.<br />
* Develops an understanding of the multiple dimensions of food systems: social, environmental, economic and spatial.<br />
* Can define her/his own position and values regarding sustainable food planning.''''<br />
<br />
<br />
Roxana Triboi, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented an overview of the seminar with the main learning goals and Jeroen de Vries introduced the main concepts and the assignments. Damien Conaré, l'Institut Agro Montpellier, provided insight into the field of play, looking back at the development of food systems and showing the impact of the current system. He presented current initiatives and policies for sustainable food planning. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2332_download&client_id=main You can view the PowerPoint here.]<br />
<br />
<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute presented a recap on the first session and highlighted the discourse that Chiara Tornaghi proposed in her paper on the Food Disabling City. The Long Food Movement report shows a positive scenario with a bottom-up approach that is empowered by civil society, in which each of us can choose a pathway that is most suited. The policy document for Agroforestry in the Netherlands shows how a multi-level approach can link niche initiatives to national and regional policies. Michiel Dehaene, Universiteit Gent, presented the development of the approach of an AGroecological Urbanism, with a set of building blocks that can be used as thematic entries for all planners. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2334_download&client_id=main You can view the powerpoint presentation here.]<br />
<br />
==Presentation of the introduction of participatory action research March 5, 2024==<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented quality criteria, validation, and methods for participatory action research based on the publication of Wood and his experience in the Landscape Democracy Project. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2333_download&client_id=main You can view the presentation here.]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Phase 2: Food mapping: analysing your local foodscape sessions on March 14 and 21, 2024==<br />
<br />
''Themes: Mapping a food system; Mapping the stakeholders, consumers, and policymakers (power mapping); SWOT analysis <br />
<br />
* Can map and evaluate a concrete situation of a food system.<br />
* Can select the most adequate methods and tools to be applied for analysis and evaluation.<br />
* Can identify stakeholders and power structures in a new and unknown context.<br />
* Can map a local or city/region food system.<br />
* Can define the most relevant challenges in a collaborative way.''<br />
<br />
===Session March 14, 2024===<br />
The second phase focuses on the mapping of food systems. Marian Simón Rojo of UPM gave an introduction on the relevance of mapping for starting transformative actions and presented an overview of the types of mapping. Katrin Bohn, of Bohn&Viljoen Architects & the School of Architecture & Design of the University of Brighton, presented several projects and how mapping played a role in them. You can review the recording of the presentation here. <br />
<br />
===Session March 21, 2024===<br />
The second session on food mapping with introductions by Jessica Milgroom, Assistant Professor (Research), Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience on Mapping for food-system change. She presented a research on the typology of various ways of mapping and the way these are used for transformation. Most maps were developed over a longer period, which calls for a curator for the map. An important conclusion is that you first need to define your goal for mapping and if it is a snapshot for analysis or a long-term map. <br />
<br />
Ana Zazo Moratalla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain), presented the detailed mapping for the city of Concepción in Chili, which served as a basis for a food strategy for the metropolitan area. The main goal was to understand the food system with its food sheds and it resilience and the food security for the inhabitants. An important element are the street markets which provide 75% of the fresh food. The research analysed the service areas of street markets and supermarkets, the production areas. It addresses both the conventonial system and the local food system, with alternative networks. Material can be found on http://leu.servicios.ubiobio.cl<br />
<br />
==Phase 3. Collaborative goals and vision==<br />
<br />
Themes: Collaborative goal setting; Selecting the challenges to address<br />
* Can apply techniques of collaborative goal setting.<br />
* Can formulate an approach and/or a possible solution for a selected challenge that is related to his/her own competences and role in the system.<br />
<br />
==Phase 4: Strategy and interventions==<br />
<br />
Themes: Scenarios, alternatives, strategy, prototyping, testing<br />
* Can develop a strategy based on a joint vision making use of methods of scenario planning of alternatives.<br />
* Can select and apply methods and tools for prototyping.<br />
* Can develop a prototype based on the strategy and present it to/ discuss it with others for testing and evaluating.<br />
<br />
==Phase 5: Evaluation & monitoring== <br />
<br />
Themes: collaborative evaluation; self-reflection<br />
<br />
* Is able to have a critical reflection of the role of the planner in a pluralistic society (expert vs facilitator).<br />
* Is able to reflect on his/her own process, using feedback from others reflecting on cultural, social and economic differences. </div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=694AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-03-24T09:12:24Z<p>Admin: /* Phase 2: Food mapping: analysing your local foodscape sessions on March 14 and 21, 2024 */</p>
<hr />
<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person.<br />
Those who still want to benefit from the course can view the presentations and recordings, which will be available after each session. These will be presented on the bottom of this page. [[https://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php/Seminar_schedule_2023|Presentations and recordings of the previous course in 2023 can be found here]].<br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.<br />
<br />
=Phases and sessions of the course=<br />
Here you will find the presentations and recordings after each session. Those of the [[Seminar_schedule_2023|previous seminar in 2023 can be found here.]]<br />
<br />
==Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024==<br />
''Themes: Main challenges, Theoretical frameworks, Approaches and methods: PAR, living labs, analysing methods; Defining your position and values <br />
<br />
''* Understands the concept of food systems in their cultural, local and regional setting. <br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to participatory learning and research and the role of living labs.<br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to sustainable food planning.<br />
* Is aware of contemporary challenges to sustainable food systems in the context of spatial planning.<br />
* Develops an understanding of the multiple dimensions of food systems: social, environmental, economic and spatial.<br />
* Can define her/his own position and values regarding sustainable food planning.''''<br />
<br />
<br />
Roxana Triboi, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented an overview of the seminar with the main learning goals and Jeroen de Vries introduced the main concepts and the assignments. Damien Conaré, l'Institut Agro Montpellier, provided insight into the field of play, looking back at the development of food systems and showing the impact of the current system. He presented current initiatives and policies for sustainable food planning. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2332_download&client_id=main You can view the PowerPoint here.]<br />
<br />
<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute presented a recap on the first session and highlighted the discourse that Chiara Tornaghi proposed in her paper on the Food Disabling City. The Long Food Movement report shows a positive scenario with a bottom-up approach that is empowered by civil society, in which each of us can choose a pathway that is most suited. The policy document for Agroforestry in the Netherlands shows how a multi-level approach can link niche initiatives to national and regional policies. Michiel Dehaene, Universiteit Gent, presented the development of the approach of an AGroecological Urbanism, with a set of building blocks that can be used as thematic entries for all planners. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2334_download&client_id=main You can view the powerpoint presentation here.]<br />
<br />
==Presentation of the introduction of participatory action research March 5, 2024==<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented quality criteria, validation, and methods for participatory action research based on the publication of Wood and his experience in the Landscape Democracy Project. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2333_download&client_id=main You can view the presentation here.]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Phase 2: Food mapping: analysing your local foodscape sessions on March 14 and 21, 2024==<br />
<br />
''Themes: Mapping a food system; Mapping the stakeholders, consumers, and policymakers (power mapping); SWOT analysis <br />
<br />
* Can map and evaluate a concrete situation of a food system.<br />
* Can select the most adequate methods and tools to be applied for analysis and evaluation.<br />
* Can identify stakeholders and power structures in a new and unknown context.<br />
* Can map a local or city/region food system.<br />
* Can define the most relevant challenges in a collaborative way.''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The second session on food mapping with introductions by Jessica Milgroom, Assistant Professor (Research), Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience on Mapping for food system change. She presents a research on the typology of various ways of mapping and the way these are used for transformation. Most maps were developed over a longer period of time, which calls for a curator for the map. An important conclusion is that you first need to define your goal for mapping and if it is a snapshot for analysis or a long term map. <br />
<br />
Ana Zazo Moratalla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain), presented the detailed mapping for the city of Concepción in Chili, that served as a basis for a food strategy for the metropolitan area. The main goal was to understand the food system with its food sheds and it resilience and the food security for the inhabitants. An important element are the street markets which provide 75% of the fresh food. The research analysed the service areas of street markets and supermarkets, the production areas. It addresses both the convential system and the local food system, with the alternative networks. Material can be found on http://leu.servicios.ubiobio.cl<br />
<br />
==Phase 3. Collaborative goals and vision==<br />
<br />
Themes: Collaborative goal setting; Selecting the challenges to address<br />
* Can apply techniques of collaborative goal setting.<br />
* Can formulate an approach and/or a possible solution for a selected challenge that is related to his/her own competences and role in the system.<br />
<br />
==Phase 4: Strategy and interventions==<br />
<br />
Themes: Scenarios, alternatives, strategy, prototyping, testing<br />
* Can develop a strategy based on a joint vision making use of methods of scenario planning of alternatives.<br />
* Can select and apply methods and tools for prototyping.<br />
* Can develop a prototype based on the strategy and present it to/ discuss it with others for testing and evaluating.<br />
<br />
==Phase 5: Evaluation & monitoring== <br />
<br />
Themes: collaborative evaluation; self-reflection<br />
<br />
* Is able to have a critical reflection of the role of the planner in a pluralistic society (expert vs facilitator).<br />
* Is able to reflect on his/her own process, using feedback from others reflecting on cultural, social and economic differences. </div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=693AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-03-24T09:10:07Z<p>Admin: /* Phase 2: Analysing your local foodscape sessions on March 14 and 21, 2024 */</p>
<hr />
<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person.<br />
Those who still want to benefit from the course can view the presentations and recordings, which will be available after each session. These will be presented on the bottom of this page. [[https://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php/Seminar_schedule_2023|Presentations and recordings of the previous course in 2023 can be found here]].<br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.<br />
<br />
=Phases and sessions of the course=<br />
Here you will find the presentations and recordings after each session. Those of the [[Seminar_schedule_2023|previous seminar in 2023 can be found here.]]<br />
<br />
==Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024==<br />
''Themes: Main challenges, Theoretical frameworks, Approaches and methods: PAR, living labs, analysing methods; Defining your position and values <br />
<br />
''* Understands the concept of food systems in their cultural, local and regional setting. <br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to participatory learning and research and the role of living labs.<br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to sustainable food planning.<br />
* Is aware of contemporary challenges to sustainable food systems in the context of spatial planning.<br />
* Develops an understanding of the multiple dimensions of food systems: social, environmental, economic and spatial.<br />
* Can define her/his own position and values regarding sustainable food planning.''''<br />
<br />
<br />
Roxana Triboi, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented an overview of the seminar with the main learning goals and Jeroen de Vries introduced the main concepts and the assignments. Damien Conaré, l'Institut Agro Montpellier, provided insight into the field of play, looking back at the development of food systems and showing the impact of the current system. He presented current initiatives and policies for sustainable food planning. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2332_download&client_id=main You can view the PowerPoint here.]<br />
<br />
<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute presented a recap on the first session and highlighted the discourse that Chiara Tornaghi proposed in her paper on the Food Disabling City. The Long Food Movement report shows a positive scenario with a bottom-up approach that is empowered by civil society, in which each of us can choose a pathway that is most suited. The policy document for Agroforestry in the Netherlands shows how a multi-level approach can link niche initiatives to national and regional policies. Michiel Dehaene, Universiteit Gent, presented the development of the approach of an AGroecological Urbanism, with a set of building blocks that can be used as thematic entries for all planners. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2334_download&client_id=main You can view the powerpoint presentation here.]<br />
<br />
==Presentation of the introduction of participatory action research March 5, 2024==<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented quality criteria, validation, and methods for participatory action research based on the publication of Wood and his experience in the Landscape Democracy Project. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2333_download&client_id=main You can view the presentation here.]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Phase 2: Food mapping: analysing your local foodscape sessions on March 14 and 21, 2024==<br />
<br />
''Themes: Mapping a food system; Mapping the stakeholders, consumers, and policymakers (power mapping); SWOT analysis <br />
<br />
* Can map and evaluate a concrete situation of a food system.<br />
* Can select the most adequate methods and tools to be applied for analysis and evaluation.<br />
* Can identify stakeholders and power structures in a new and unknown context.<br />
* Can map a local or city/region food system.<br />
* Can define the most relevant challenges in a collaborative way.''<br />
<br />
==Phase 3. Collaborative goals and vision==<br />
<br />
Themes: Collaborative goal setting; Selecting the challenges to address<br />
* Can apply techniques of collaborative goal setting.<br />
* Can formulate an approach and/or a possible solution for a selected challenge that is related to his/her own competences and role in the system.<br />
<br />
==Phase 4: Strategy and interventions==<br />
<br />
Themes: Scenarios, alternatives, strategy, prototyping, testing<br />
* Can develop a strategy based on a joint vision making use of methods of scenario planning of alternatives.<br />
* Can select and apply methods and tools for prototyping.<br />
* Can develop a prototype based on the strategy and present it to/ discuss it with others for testing and evaluating.<br />
<br />
==Phase 5: Evaluation & monitoring== <br />
<br />
Themes: collaborative evaluation; self-reflection<br />
<br />
* Is able to have a critical reflection of the role of the planner in a pluralistic society (expert vs facilitator).<br />
* Is able to reflect on his/her own process, using feedback from others reflecting on cultural, social and economic differences. </div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=692AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-03-24T09:08:53Z<p>Admin: /* Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024 */</p>
<hr />
<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person.<br />
Those who still want to benefit from the course can view the presentations and recordings, which will be available after each session. These will be presented on the bottom of this page. [[https://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php/Seminar_schedule_2023|Presentations and recordings of the previous course in 2023 can be found here]].<br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.<br />
<br />
=Phases and sessions of the course=<br />
Here you will find the presentations and recordings after each session. Those of the [[Seminar_schedule_2023|previous seminar in 2023 can be found here.]]<br />
<br />
==Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024==<br />
''Themes: Main challenges, Theoretical frameworks, Approaches and methods: PAR, living labs, analysing methods; Defining your position and values <br />
<br />
''* Understands the concept of food systems in their cultural, local and regional setting. <br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to participatory learning and research and the role of living labs.<br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to sustainable food planning.<br />
* Is aware of contemporary challenges to sustainable food systems in the context of spatial planning.<br />
* Develops an understanding of the multiple dimensions of food systems: social, environmental, economic and spatial.<br />
* Can define her/his own position and values regarding sustainable food planning.''''<br />
<br />
<br />
Roxana Triboi, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented an overview of the seminar with the main learning goals and Jeroen de Vries introduced the main concepts and the assignments. Damien Conaré, l'Institut Agro Montpellier, provided insight into the field of play, looking back at the development of food systems and showing the impact of the current system. He presented current initiatives and policies for sustainable food planning. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2332_download&client_id=main You can view the PowerPoint here.]<br />
<br />
<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute presented a recap on the first session and highlighted the discourse that Chiara Tornaghi proposed in her paper on the Food Disabling City. The Long Food Movement report shows a positive scenario with a bottom-up approach that is empowered by civil society, in which each of us can choose a pathway that is most suited. The policy document for Agroforestry in the Netherlands shows how a multi-level approach can link niche initiatives to national and regional policies. Michiel Dehaene, Universiteit Gent, presented the development of the approach of an AGroecological Urbanism, with a set of building blocks that can be used as thematic entries for all planners. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2334_download&client_id=main You can view the powerpoint presentation here.]<br />
<br />
==Presentation of the introduction of participatory action research March 5, 2024==<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented quality criteria, validation, and methods for participatory action research based on the publication of Wood and his experience in the Landscape Democracy Project. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2333_download&client_id=main You can view the presentation here.]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Phase 2: Analysing your local foodscape sessions on March 14 and 21, 2024==<br />
<br />
''Themes: Mapping a food system; Mapping the stakeholders, consumers, and policymakers (power mapping); SWOT analysis <br />
<br />
* Can map and evaluate a concrete situation of a food system.<br />
* Can select the most adequate methods and tools to be applied for analysis and evaluation.<br />
* Can identify stakeholders and power structures in a new and unknown context.<br />
* Can map a local or city/region food system.<br />
* Can define the most relevant challenges in a collaborative way.''<br />
<br />
==Phase 3. Collaborative goals and vision==<br />
<br />
Themes: Collaborative goal setting; Selecting the challenges to address<br />
* Can apply techniques of collaborative goal setting.<br />
* Can formulate an approach and/or a possible solution for a selected challenge that is related to his/her own competences and role in the system.<br />
<br />
==Phase 4: Strategy and interventions==<br />
<br />
Themes: Scenarios, alternatives, strategy, prototyping, testing<br />
* Can develop a strategy based on a joint vision making use of methods of scenario planning of alternatives.<br />
* Can select and apply methods and tools for prototyping.<br />
* Can develop a prototype based on the strategy and present it to/ discuss it with others for testing and evaluating.<br />
<br />
==Phase 5: Evaluation & monitoring== <br />
<br />
Themes: collaborative evaluation; self-reflection<br />
<br />
* Is able to have a critical reflection of the role of the planner in a pluralistic society (expert vs facilitator).<br />
* Is able to reflect on his/her own process, using feedback from others reflecting on cultural, social and economic differences. </div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=691AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-03-24T09:08:20Z<p>Admin: </p>
<hr />
<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person.<br />
Those who still want to benefit from the course can view the presentations and recordings, which will be available after each session. These will be presented on the bottom of this page. [[https://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php/Seminar_schedule_2023|Presentations and recordings of the previous course in 2023 can be found here]].<br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.<br />
<br />
=Phases and sessions of the course=<br />
Here you will find the presentations and recordings after each session. Those of the [[Seminar_schedule_2023|previous seminar in 2023 can be found here.]]<br />
<br />
==Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024==<br />
''Themes: Main challenges, Theoretical frameworks, Approaches and methods: PAR, living labs, analysing methods; Defining your position and values <br />
<br />
* Understands the concept of food systems in their cultural, local and regional setting. <br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to participatory learning and research and the role of living labs.<br />
* Can explain the main concepts related to sustainable food planning.<br />
* Is aware of contemporary challenges to sustainable food systems in the context of spatial planning.<br />
* Develops an understanding of the multiple dimensions of food systems: social, environmental, economic and spatial.<br />
* Can define her/his own position and values regarding sustainable food planning.''<br />
<br />
<br />
Roxana Triboi, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented an overview of the seminar with the main learning goals and Jeroen de Vries introduced the main concepts and the assignments. Damien Conaré, l'Institut Agro Montpellier, provided insight into the field of play, looking back at the development of food systems and showing the impact of the current system. He presented current initiatives and policies for sustainable food planning. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2332_download&client_id=main You can view the PowerPoint here.]<br />
<br />
<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute presented a recap on the first session and highlighted the discourse that Chiara Tornaghi proposed in her paper on the Food Disabling City. The Long Food Movement report shows a positive scenario with a bottom-up approach that is empowered by civil society, in which each of us can choose a pathway that is most suited. The policy document for Agroforestry in the Netherlands shows how a multi-level approach can link niche initiatives to national and regional policies. Michiel Dehaene, Universiteit Gent, presented the development of the approach of an AGroecological Urbanism, with a set of building blocks that can be used as thematic entries for all planners. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2334_download&client_id=main You can view the powerpoint presentation here.]<br />
<br />
==Presentation of the introduction of participatory action research March 5, 2024==<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented quality criteria, validation, and methods for participatory action research based on the publication of Wood and his experience in the Landscape Democracy Project. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2333_download&client_id=main You can view the presentation here.]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Phase 2: Analysing your local foodscape sessions on March 14 and 21, 2024==<br />
<br />
''Themes: Mapping a food system; Mapping the stakeholders, consumers, and policymakers (power mapping); SWOT analysis <br />
<br />
* Can map and evaluate a concrete situation of a food system.<br />
* Can select the most adequate methods and tools to be applied for analysis and evaluation.<br />
* Can identify stakeholders and power structures in a new and unknown context.<br />
* Can map a local or city/region food system.<br />
* Can define the most relevant challenges in a collaborative way.''<br />
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==Phase 3. Collaborative goals and vision==<br />
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Themes: Collaborative goal setting; Selecting the challenges to address<br />
* Can apply techniques of collaborative goal setting.<br />
* Can formulate an approach and/or a possible solution for a selected challenge that is related to his/her own competences and role in the system.<br />
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==Phase 4: Strategy and interventions==<br />
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Themes: Scenarios, alternatives, strategy, prototyping, testing<br />
* Can develop a strategy based on a joint vision making use of methods of scenario planning of alternatives.<br />
* Can select and apply methods and tools for prototyping.<br />
* Can develop a prototype based on the strategy and present it to/ discuss it with others for testing and evaluating.<br />
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==Phase 5: Evaluation & monitoring== <br />
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Themes: collaborative evaluation; self-reflection<br />
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* Is able to have a critical reflection of the role of the planner in a pluralistic society (expert vs facilitator).<br />
* Is able to reflect on his/her own process, using feedback from others reflecting on cultural, social and economic differences. </div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=690AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-03-07T20:03:09Z<p>Admin: /* Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024 */</p>
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<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
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Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
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==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person.<br />
Those who still want to benefit from the course can view the presentations and recordings, which will be available after each session. These will be presented on the bottom of this page. [[https://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php/Seminar_schedule_2023|Presentations and recordings of the previous course in 2023 can be found here]].<br />
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==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
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Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
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[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
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'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
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'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
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'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
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==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.<br />
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=Phases and sessions of the course=<br />
Here you will find the presentations and recordings after each session. Those of the [[Seminar_schedule_2023|previous seminar in 2023 can be found here.]]<br />
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==Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024==<br />
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Roxana Triboi, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented an overview of the seminar with the main learning goals and Jeroen de Vries introduced the main concepts and the assignments. Damien Conaré, l'Institut Agro Montpellier, provided insight into the field of play, looking back at the development of food systems and showing the impact of the current system. He presented current initiatives and policies for sustainable food planning. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2332_download&client_id=main You can view the PowerPoint here.]<br />
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Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute presented a recap on the first session and highlighted the discourse that Chiara Tornaghi proposed in her paper on the Food Disabling City. The Long Food Movement report shows a positive scenario with a bottom-up approach that is empowered by civil society, in which each of us can choose a pathway that is most suited. The policy document for Agroforestry in the Netherlands shows how a multi-level approach can link niche initiatives to national and regional policies. Michiel Dehaene, Universiteit Gent, presented the development of the approach of an AGroecological Urbanism, with a set of building blocks that can be used as thematic entries for all planners. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2334_download&client_id=main You can view the powerpoint presentation here.]<br />
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==Presentation of the introduction of participatory action research March 5, 2024==<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented quality criteria, validation, and methods for participatory action research based on the publication of Wood and his experience in the Landscape Democracy Project. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2333_download&client_id=main You can view the presentation here.]</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=Reading_list&diff=689Reading list2024-03-07T12:44:31Z<p>Admin: /* Background reading */</p>
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<div><br />
===Preparatory reading===<br />
====Compulsory====<br />
<br />
* FAO Report : [https://www.fao.org/3/CA2260EN/ca2260en.pdf "Integrating food into urban planning“] page 18 - 32.<br />
* IPES-food: From Plate to Planet: [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/PlatetoPlanet_SummaryEN.pdf How local governments are driving action on climate change through food summary]<br />
* [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/tippingthescales.pdf IPES-food: Who’s Tipping the Scales? Briefing note]<br />
<br />
====Background information====<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/3/cc7724en/online/cc7724en.html FAO THE STATE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2023: Revealing the true cost of food to transform agrifood systems site]<br />
<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLWRclarri0 Hungry Cities by Carolyn Steel video]<br />
<br />
If you want to get familiar with methods for collaborative goal setting, participatory learning, and research you can review the following.<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main The nominal group technique approach is a method for collaborative working on ideas and proposals]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main PALAR methodology - the method for participatory learning and research]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Living Lab approach - how to work together with various groups of participants from communities, academia, civil society, and public authorities.]<br />
<br />
Short PowerPoint explaining the Nominal Group Technique, a method for collaborative [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main goal setting, defining values for groups, collaborative action planning.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 1==<br />
<br />
===Compulsory reading===<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2125_download&client_id=main Tornaghi, Chiara. (2016). Urban Agriculture in the Food‐Disabling City: (Re)defining Urban Food Justice, Reimagining a Politics of Empowerment. Antipode. 49. 10.1111/anti.12291.]<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2143_download&client_id=main Deh-Tor, C.M. 2021. Food as an urban question, and the foundations of a reproductive, agroecological, urbanism, Chapter 1 in: Tornaghi, Ch. and Dehaene, M. 2021. Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions.]<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://www.ipes-food.org/pages/LongFoodMovement IPES-Food, 2021. A long food movement.]<br />
<br />
===Background reading===<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main Longer presentation on PALAR with criteria and activities.]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Triboi, R. 2022 AESOP4FOOD presentation on Living Labs.]<br />
<br />
Nasr, J.and M. Potteiger. Spaces, Systems, and Infrastructures: [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2212_download&client_id=main From Founding Visions to Emerging Approaches for the Productive Urban Landscape]<br />
<br />
FAO. 2019. FAO framework for the Urban Food Agenda. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/ca3151en<br />
<br />
IDS & IPES-Food, 2022. [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/SmokeAndMirrors_BackgroundStudy.pdf Agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions: Competing framings of food system sustainability in global policy and funding spaces.]<br />
<br />
University of California, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. What Is a Community Food System? Community Food Systems. Defining Community Food Systems.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 2==<br />
<br />
===Compulsory reading===<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en?details=ca2260en FAO Report: "Integrating food into urban planning“ page 264 – 275 (Food asset mapping in Toronto and Greater Golden Horseshoe region, by Lauren Baker).]<br />
<br />
=== Recommended and Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Recommended befored March 14, 2024: <br />
[https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)2575-1220.Planning-Food-System-Transitions SI Planning Food System Transitions: Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems (wiley.com)]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Further reading:'''<br />
<br />
Bortoletti, M., and J. Lomax. "Collaborative framework for food systems transformation." A multistakeholder pathway for sustainable food systems. UN environment. ISBN (2019): 978-92.<br />
<br />
Corcoran, M. P. 2021. Beyond ‘food apartheid’: Civil society and the politicization of hunger in New Haven, Connecticut. In: Urban Agric Region Food Syst. 2021;6:e20013. https://doi.org/10.1002/uar2.20013<br />
<br />
Countryside Charity (CPRE – UK) [https://www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LocalZFoodZMappingZToolkitZSampleZPages.pdf https://www.cpre.org.uk/resources/mapping-local-food-webs-toolkit-2/] - just read the 7 pages that explain the toolkit.<br />
<br />
FAO (2019),TOOL FOR AGROECOLOGY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT AND GUIDELINES FOR APPLICATION. Chapter 3. <br />
<br />
FAO. (2018) City Region Food System Toolkit, Assessing and planning sustainable city region food systems, publication of FAO, RUAF and Wilfrid Laurier University. <br />
http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/toolkit/introduction/en/ - please read the introduction (page 1-3) and go over the questions and schemes of page nrs 133 until 144 (please note these are the pages in the pdf 138-149).<br />
<br />
Vaarst, Mette, Arthur Getz Escudero, M. Jahi Chappell, Catherine Brinkley, Ravic Nijbroek, Nilson A.M. Arraes, Lise Andreasen, Andreas Gattinger, Gustavo Fonseca De Almeida, Deborah Bossio & Niels Halberg (2018) Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42:6, 686-711, DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1365321<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A. and Bohn, K. (eds) (2014) Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing productive cities, Routledge: London and New York.<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A., Bohn, K. and Howe, J. (eds and co-authors) (2005) CPULs Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for sustainable cities, Oxford: Architectural Press.<br />
<br />
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. (2011) Community-Based Food System Assessment and Planning - Facilitator’s Guidebook, publication 3108-9029.- please read the introduction and then continue until page 18.<br />
<br />
Wiskerke, Johannes SC. "On places lost and places regained: Reflections on the alternative food geography and sustainable regional development." International planning studies 14.4 (2009): 369-387.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 3==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2221_download&client_id=main UN Habitat, 2012: Visioning as a Participatory Planning Tool]<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/overview/crfs/en/ website of FAO on City Regions Food Systems]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Cohen and Ilieva (2021). Expanding the boundaries of food policy: The turn to equity in New York City. Food Policy, 103<br />
<br />
Alessandra Manganelli (2020): Realising local food policies: a comparison between Toronto and the Brussels-Capital Region’s stories through the lenses of reflexivity and colearning, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning<br />
<br />
Van de Griend, J., Duncan, J., & Wiskerke, J. (2019). How Civil Servants Frame Participation: Balancing Municipal Responsibility With Citizen Initiative in Ede’s Food Policy. Politics and Governance, 7(4), 59-67<br />
<br />
Jeroen J. L. Candel (2019): What’s on the menu? A global assessment of MUFPP signatory cities’ food strategies, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems<br />
<br />
Sonnino, R. Tegoni, C. De Cunto, A. , (2019) The challenge of systemic food change: Insights from cities, Cities, Vol. 85, pp. 110-116<br />
<br />
Landert, J.; Schader, C.; Moschitz, H.; Stolze, M. A Holistic Sustainability Assessment Method for Urban Food System Governance. Sustainability 2017, 9, 490<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-36-food-policy-councils/ RUAF, Urban Agriculture Magazin no. 36, Food Policy Councils.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 4==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2148_download&client_id=main Scoones et al. (2015) The politics of Green Transformation (Chapter 1). Oxon/New York: Routledge.] <br />
<br />
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtyo5UmdTrl1erONZSdllsbGZaidGBHh/view?usp=share_link David Holmgren’s text “Descent scenarios” chapter 4 of Future Scenario (2008)]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
[https://agriculture-architecture.net/ This is the online exhibition and resource curated by Sebastien Marot]. It consists of 42 panels arranged in 6 thematic lines of thinking. They compose an ideology, i.e. a jurisprudence of ideas, moments and figures which one might bear in mind when considering the nexus of agriculture and architecture, and its evolution.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 5==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=Reading_list&diff=688Reading list2024-03-07T12:43:18Z<p>Admin: /* Reading for phase 1 */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
===Preparatory reading===<br />
====Compulsory====<br />
<br />
* FAO Report : [https://www.fao.org/3/CA2260EN/ca2260en.pdf "Integrating food into urban planning“] page 18 - 32.<br />
* IPES-food: From Plate to Planet: [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/PlatetoPlanet_SummaryEN.pdf How local governments are driving action on climate change through food summary]<br />
* [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/tippingthescales.pdf IPES-food: Who’s Tipping the Scales? Briefing note]<br />
<br />
====Background information====<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/3/cc7724en/online/cc7724en.html FAO THE STATE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2023: Revealing the true cost of food to transform agrifood systems site]<br />
<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLWRclarri0 Hungry Cities by Carolyn Steel video]<br />
<br />
If you want to get familiar with methods for collaborative goal setting, participatory learning, and research you can review the following.<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main The nominal group technique approach is a method for collaborative working on ideas and proposals]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main PALAR methodology - the method for participatory learning and research]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Living Lab approach - how to work together with various groups of participants from communities, academia, civil society, and public authorities.]<br />
<br />
Short PowerPoint explaining the Nominal Group Technique, a method for collaborative [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main goal setting, defining values for groups, collaborative action planning.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 1==<br />
<br />
===Compulsory reading===<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2125_download&client_id=main Tornaghi, Chiara. (2016). Urban Agriculture in the Food‐Disabling City: (Re)defining Urban Food Justice, Reimagining a Politics of Empowerment. Antipode. 49. 10.1111/anti.12291.]<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2143_download&client_id=main Deh-Tor, C.M. 2021. Food as an urban question, and the foundations of a reproductive, agroecological, urbanism, Chapter 1 in: Tornaghi, Ch. and Dehaene, M. 2021. Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions.]<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://www.ipes-food.org/pages/LongFoodMovement IPES-Food, 2021. A long food movement.]<br />
<br />
===Background reading===<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2132_download&client_id=main Short presentation on Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR)]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main Longer presentation on PALAR with criteria and activities.]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Triboi, R. 2022 AESOP4FOOD presentation on Living Labs.]<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-33-urban-agroecology/ Deh-Tor, C.M. . 2017 From Agriculture in the City to an Agroecological Urbanism: The transformative pathway of urban (political) agroecology, in: Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 33 – Urban Agroecology]<br />
<br />
Nasr, J.and M. Potteiger. Spaces, Systems, and Infrastructures: [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2212_download&client_id=main From Founding Visions to Emerging Approaches for the Productive Urban Landscape]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
FAO. 2019. FAO framework for the Urban Food Agenda. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/ca3151en<br />
<br />
IDS & IPES-Food, 2022. [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/SmokeAndMirrors_BackgroundStudy.pdf Agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions: Competing framings of food system sustainability in global policy and funding spaces.]<br />
<br />
University of California, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. What Is a Community Food System? Community Food Systems. Defining Community Food Systems.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 2==<br />
<br />
===Compulsory reading===<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en?details=ca2260en FAO Report: "Integrating food into urban planning“ page 264 – 275 (Food asset mapping in Toronto and Greater Golden Horseshoe region, by Lauren Baker).]<br />
<br />
=== Recommended and Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Recommended befored March 14, 2024: <br />
[https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)2575-1220.Planning-Food-System-Transitions SI Planning Food System Transitions: Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems (wiley.com)]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Further reading:'''<br />
<br />
Bortoletti, M., and J. Lomax. "Collaborative framework for food systems transformation." A multistakeholder pathway for sustainable food systems. UN environment. ISBN (2019): 978-92.<br />
<br />
Corcoran, M. P. 2021. Beyond ‘food apartheid’: Civil society and the politicization of hunger in New Haven, Connecticut. In: Urban Agric Region Food Syst. 2021;6:e20013. https://doi.org/10.1002/uar2.20013<br />
<br />
Countryside Charity (CPRE – UK) [https://www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LocalZFoodZMappingZToolkitZSampleZPages.pdf https://www.cpre.org.uk/resources/mapping-local-food-webs-toolkit-2/] - just read the 7 pages that explain the toolkit.<br />
<br />
FAO (2019),TOOL FOR AGROECOLOGY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT AND GUIDELINES FOR APPLICATION. Chapter 3. <br />
<br />
FAO. (2018) City Region Food System Toolkit, Assessing and planning sustainable city region food systems, publication of FAO, RUAF and Wilfrid Laurier University. <br />
http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/toolkit/introduction/en/ - please read the introduction (page 1-3) and go over the questions and schemes of page nrs 133 until 144 (please note these are the pages in the pdf 138-149).<br />
<br />
Vaarst, Mette, Arthur Getz Escudero, M. Jahi Chappell, Catherine Brinkley, Ravic Nijbroek, Nilson A.M. Arraes, Lise Andreasen, Andreas Gattinger, Gustavo Fonseca De Almeida, Deborah Bossio & Niels Halberg (2018) Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42:6, 686-711, DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1365321<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A. and Bohn, K. (eds) (2014) Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing productive cities, Routledge: London and New York.<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A., Bohn, K. and Howe, J. (eds and co-authors) (2005) CPULs Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for sustainable cities, Oxford: Architectural Press.<br />
<br />
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. (2011) Community-Based Food System Assessment and Planning - Facilitator’s Guidebook, publication 3108-9029.- please read the introduction and then continue until page 18.<br />
<br />
Wiskerke, Johannes SC. "On places lost and places regained: Reflections on the alternative food geography and sustainable regional development." International planning studies 14.4 (2009): 369-387.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 3==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2221_download&client_id=main UN Habitat, 2012: Visioning as a Participatory Planning Tool]<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/overview/crfs/en/ website of FAO on City Regions Food Systems]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Cohen and Ilieva (2021). Expanding the boundaries of food policy: The turn to equity in New York City. Food Policy, 103<br />
<br />
Alessandra Manganelli (2020): Realising local food policies: a comparison between Toronto and the Brussels-Capital Region’s stories through the lenses of reflexivity and colearning, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning<br />
<br />
Van de Griend, J., Duncan, J., & Wiskerke, J. (2019). How Civil Servants Frame Participation: Balancing Municipal Responsibility With Citizen Initiative in Ede’s Food Policy. Politics and Governance, 7(4), 59-67<br />
<br />
Jeroen J. L. Candel (2019): What’s on the menu? A global assessment of MUFPP signatory cities’ food strategies, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems<br />
<br />
Sonnino, R. Tegoni, C. De Cunto, A. , (2019) The challenge of systemic food change: Insights from cities, Cities, Vol. 85, pp. 110-116<br />
<br />
Landert, J.; Schader, C.; Moschitz, H.; Stolze, M. A Holistic Sustainability Assessment Method for Urban Food System Governance. Sustainability 2017, 9, 490<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-36-food-policy-councils/ RUAF, Urban Agriculture Magazin no. 36, Food Policy Councils.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 4==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2148_download&client_id=main Scoones et al. (2015) The politics of Green Transformation (Chapter 1). Oxon/New York: Routledge.] <br />
<br />
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtyo5UmdTrl1erONZSdllsbGZaidGBHh/view?usp=share_link David Holmgren’s text “Descent scenarios” chapter 4 of Future Scenario (2008)]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
[https://agriculture-architecture.net/ This is the online exhibition and resource curated by Sebastien Marot]. It consists of 42 panels arranged in 6 thematic lines of thinking. They compose an ideology, i.e. a jurisprudence of ideas, moments and figures which one might bear in mind when considering the nexus of agriculture and architecture, and its evolution.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 5==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=Reading_list&diff=687Reading list2024-03-07T12:42:47Z<p>Admin: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
===Preparatory reading===<br />
====Compulsory====<br />
<br />
* FAO Report : [https://www.fao.org/3/CA2260EN/ca2260en.pdf "Integrating food into urban planning“] page 18 - 32.<br />
* IPES-food: From Plate to Planet: [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/PlatetoPlanet_SummaryEN.pdf How local governments are driving action on climate change through food summary]<br />
* [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/tippingthescales.pdf IPES-food: Who’s Tipping the Scales? Briefing note]<br />
<br />
====Background information====<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/3/cc7724en/online/cc7724en.html FAO THE STATE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2023: Revealing the true cost of food to transform agrifood systems site]<br />
<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLWRclarri0 Hungry Cities by Carolyn Steel video]<br />
<br />
If you want to get familiar with methods for collaborative goal setting, participatory learning, and research you can review the following.<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main The nominal group technique approach is a method for collaborative working on ideas and proposals]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main PALAR methodology - the method for participatory learning and research]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Living Lab approach - how to work together with various groups of participants from communities, academia, civil society, and public authorities.]<br />
<br />
Short PowerPoint explaining the Nominal Group Technique, a method for collaborative [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main goal setting, defining values for groups, collaborative action planning.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 1==<br />
<br />
===Compulsory reading===<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2125_download&client_id=main Tornaghi, Chiara. (2016). Urban Agriculture in the Food‐Disabling City: (Re)defining Urban Food Justice, Reimagining a Politics of Empowerment. Antipode. 49. 10.1111/anti.12291.]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2143_download&client_id=main Deh-Tor, C.M. 2021. Food as an urban question, and the foundations of a reproductive, agroecological, urbanism, Chapter 1 in: Tornaghi, Ch. and Dehaene, M. 2021. Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions.]<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://www.ipes-food.org/pages/LongFoodMovement IPES-Food, 2021. A long food movement.]<br />
<br />
===Background reading===<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2132_download&client_id=main Short presentation on Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR)]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main Longer presentation on PALAR with criteria and activities.]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Triboi, R. 2022 AESOP4FOOD presentation on Living Labs.]<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-33-urban-agroecology/ Deh-Tor, C.M. . 2017 From Agriculture in the City to an Agroecological Urbanism: The transformative pathway of urban (political) agroecology, in: Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 33 – Urban Agroecology]<br />
<br />
Nasr, J.and M. Potteiger. Spaces, Systems, and Infrastructures: [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2212_download&client_id=main From Founding Visions to Emerging Approaches for the Productive Urban Landscape]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
FAO. 2019. FAO framework for the Urban Food Agenda. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/ca3151en<br />
<br />
IDS & IPES-Food, 2022. [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/SmokeAndMirrors_BackgroundStudy.pdf Agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions: Competing framings of food system sustainability in global policy and funding spaces.]<br />
<br />
University of California, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. What Is a Community Food System? Community Food Systems. Defining Community Food Systems.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 2==<br />
<br />
===Compulsory reading===<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en?details=ca2260en FAO Report: "Integrating food into urban planning“ page 264 – 275 (Food asset mapping in Toronto and Greater Golden Horseshoe region, by Lauren Baker).]<br />
<br />
=== Recommended and Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Recommended befored March 14, 2024: <br />
[https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)2575-1220.Planning-Food-System-Transitions SI Planning Food System Transitions: Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems (wiley.com)]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Further reading:'''<br />
<br />
Bortoletti, M., and J. Lomax. "Collaborative framework for food systems transformation." A multistakeholder pathway for sustainable food systems. UN environment. ISBN (2019): 978-92.<br />
<br />
Corcoran, M. P. 2021. Beyond ‘food apartheid’: Civil society and the politicization of hunger in New Haven, Connecticut. In: Urban Agric Region Food Syst. 2021;6:e20013. https://doi.org/10.1002/uar2.20013<br />
<br />
Countryside Charity (CPRE – UK) [https://www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LocalZFoodZMappingZToolkitZSampleZPages.pdf https://www.cpre.org.uk/resources/mapping-local-food-webs-toolkit-2/] - just read the 7 pages that explain the toolkit.<br />
<br />
FAO (2019),TOOL FOR AGROECOLOGY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT AND GUIDELINES FOR APPLICATION. Chapter 3. <br />
<br />
FAO. (2018) City Region Food System Toolkit, Assessing and planning sustainable city region food systems, publication of FAO, RUAF and Wilfrid Laurier University. <br />
http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/toolkit/introduction/en/ - please read the introduction (page 1-3) and go over the questions and schemes of page nrs 133 until 144 (please note these are the pages in the pdf 138-149).<br />
<br />
Vaarst, Mette, Arthur Getz Escudero, M. Jahi Chappell, Catherine Brinkley, Ravic Nijbroek, Nilson A.M. Arraes, Lise Andreasen, Andreas Gattinger, Gustavo Fonseca De Almeida, Deborah Bossio & Niels Halberg (2018) Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42:6, 686-711, DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1365321<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A. and Bohn, K. (eds) (2014) Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing productive cities, Routledge: London and New York.<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A., Bohn, K. and Howe, J. (eds and co-authors) (2005) CPULs Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for sustainable cities, Oxford: Architectural Press.<br />
<br />
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. (2011) Community-Based Food System Assessment and Planning - Facilitator’s Guidebook, publication 3108-9029.- please read the introduction and then continue until page 18.<br />
<br />
Wiskerke, Johannes SC. "On places lost and places regained: Reflections on the alternative food geography and sustainable regional development." International planning studies 14.4 (2009): 369-387.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 3==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2221_download&client_id=main UN Habitat, 2012: Visioning as a Participatory Planning Tool]<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/overview/crfs/en/ website of FAO on City Regions Food Systems]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Cohen and Ilieva (2021). Expanding the boundaries of food policy: The turn to equity in New York City. Food Policy, 103<br />
<br />
Alessandra Manganelli (2020): Realising local food policies: a comparison between Toronto and the Brussels-Capital Region’s stories through the lenses of reflexivity and colearning, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning<br />
<br />
Van de Griend, J., Duncan, J., & Wiskerke, J. (2019). How Civil Servants Frame Participation: Balancing Municipal Responsibility With Citizen Initiative in Ede’s Food Policy. Politics and Governance, 7(4), 59-67<br />
<br />
Jeroen J. L. Candel (2019): What’s on the menu? A global assessment of MUFPP signatory cities’ food strategies, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems<br />
<br />
Sonnino, R. Tegoni, C. De Cunto, A. , (2019) The challenge of systemic food change: Insights from cities, Cities, Vol. 85, pp. 110-116<br />
<br />
Landert, J.; Schader, C.; Moschitz, H.; Stolze, M. A Holistic Sustainability Assessment Method for Urban Food System Governance. Sustainability 2017, 9, 490<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-36-food-policy-councils/ RUAF, Urban Agriculture Magazin no. 36, Food Policy Councils.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 4==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2148_download&client_id=main Scoones et al. (2015) The politics of Green Transformation (Chapter 1). Oxon/New York: Routledge.] <br />
<br />
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtyo5UmdTrl1erONZSdllsbGZaidGBHh/view?usp=share_link David Holmgren’s text “Descent scenarios” chapter 4 of Future Scenario (2008)]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
[https://agriculture-architecture.net/ This is the online exhibition and resource curated by Sebastien Marot]. It consists of 42 panels arranged in 6 thematic lines of thinking. They compose an ideology, i.e. a jurisprudence of ideas, moments and figures which one might bear in mind when considering the nexus of agriculture and architecture, and its evolution.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 5==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=Reading_list&diff=686Reading list2024-03-07T12:40:45Z<p>Admin: /* Compulsory reading */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
===Preparatory reading===<br />
====Compulsory====<br />
<br />
* FAO Report : [https://www.fao.org/3/CA2260EN/ca2260en.pdf "Integrating food into urban planning“] page 18 - 32.<br />
* IPES-food: From Plate to Planet: [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/PlatetoPlanet_SummaryEN.pdf How local governments are driving action on climate change through food summary]<br />
* [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/tippingthescales.pdf IPES-food: Who’s Tipping the Scales? Briefing note]<br />
<br />
====Background information====<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/3/cc7724en/online/cc7724en.html FAO THE STATE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2023: Revealing the true cost of food to transform agrifood systems site]<br />
<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLWRclarri0 Hungry Cities by Carolyn Steel video]<br />
<br />
If you want to get familiar with methods for collaborative goal setting, participatory learning, and research you can review the following.<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main The nominal group technique approach is a method for collaborative working on ideas and proposals]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main PALAR methodology - the method for participatory learning and research]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Living Lab approach - how to work together with various groups of participants from communities, academia, civil society, and public authorities.]<br />
<br />
Short PowerPoint explaining the Nominal Group Technique, a method for collaborative [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main goal setting, defining values for groups, collaborative action planning.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 1==<br />
<br />
===Compulsory reading===<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2125_download&client_id=main Tornaghi, Chiara. (2016). Urban Agriculture in the Food‐Disabling City: (Re)defining Urban Food Justice, Reimagining a Politics of Empowerment. Antipode. 49. 10.1111/anti.12291.]<br />
<br />
<br />
Deh-Tor C. M. (2021), “Food as an urban question, and the foundations of a reproductive, agroecological, urbanism”, in TORNAGHI C., DEHAENE M. (eds.) (2021), Resourcing an agroecological urbanism. Political, transformational and territorial dimensions, London: Routledge; Ch. 1, pp. 12-33<br />
IPES, 2021. A long food movement.<br />
<br />
===Background reading===<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2132_download&client_id=main Short presentation on Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR)]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main Longer presentation on PALAR with criteria and activities.]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Triboi, R. 2022 AESOP4FOOD presentation on Living Labs.]<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-33-urban-agroecology/ Deh-Tor, C.M. . 2017 From Agriculture in the City to an Agroecological Urbanism: The transformative pathway of urban (political) agroecology, in: Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 33 – Urban Agroecology]<br />
<br />
Nasr, J.and M. Potteiger. Spaces, Systems, and Infrastructures: [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2212_download&client_id=main From Founding Visions to Emerging Approaches for the Productive Urban Landscape]<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2143_download&client_id=main Deh-Tor, C.M. 2021. Food as an urban question, and the foundations of a reproductive, agroecological, urbanism, Chapter 1 in: Tornaghi, Ch. and Dehaene, M. 2021. Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions.]<br />
<br />
<br />
FAO. 2019. FAO framework for the Urban Food Agenda. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/ca3151en<br />
<br />
IDS & IPES-Food, 2022. [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/SmokeAndMirrors_BackgroundStudy.pdf Agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions: Competing framings of food system sustainability in global policy and funding spaces.]<br />
<br />
University of California, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. What Is a Community Food System? Community Food Systems. Defining Community Food Systems.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 2==<br />
<br />
===Compulsory reading===<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en?details=ca2260en FAO Report: "Integrating food into urban planning“ page 264 – 275 (Food asset mapping in Toronto and Greater Golden Horseshoe region, by Lauren Baker).]<br />
<br />
=== Recommended and Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Recommended befored March 14, 2024: <br />
[https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)2575-1220.Planning-Food-System-Transitions SI Planning Food System Transitions: Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems (wiley.com)]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Further reading:'''<br />
<br />
Bortoletti, M., and J. Lomax. "Collaborative framework for food systems transformation." A multistakeholder pathway for sustainable food systems. UN environment. ISBN (2019): 978-92.<br />
<br />
Corcoran, M. P. 2021. Beyond ‘food apartheid’: Civil society and the politicization of hunger in New Haven, Connecticut. In: Urban Agric Region Food Syst. 2021;6:e20013. https://doi.org/10.1002/uar2.20013<br />
<br />
Countryside Charity (CPRE – UK) [https://www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LocalZFoodZMappingZToolkitZSampleZPages.pdf https://www.cpre.org.uk/resources/mapping-local-food-webs-toolkit-2/] - just read the 7 pages that explain the toolkit.<br />
<br />
FAO (2019),TOOL FOR AGROECOLOGY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT AND GUIDELINES FOR APPLICATION. Chapter 3. <br />
<br />
FAO. (2018) City Region Food System Toolkit, Assessing and planning sustainable city region food systems, publication of FAO, RUAF and Wilfrid Laurier University. <br />
http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/toolkit/introduction/en/ - please read the introduction (page 1-3) and go over the questions and schemes of page nrs 133 until 144 (please note these are the pages in the pdf 138-149).<br />
<br />
Vaarst, Mette, Arthur Getz Escudero, M. Jahi Chappell, Catherine Brinkley, Ravic Nijbroek, Nilson A.M. Arraes, Lise Andreasen, Andreas Gattinger, Gustavo Fonseca De Almeida, Deborah Bossio & Niels Halberg (2018) Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42:6, 686-711, DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1365321<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A. and Bohn, K. (eds) (2014) Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing productive cities, Routledge: London and New York.<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A., Bohn, K. and Howe, J. (eds and co-authors) (2005) CPULs Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for sustainable cities, Oxford: Architectural Press.<br />
<br />
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. (2011) Community-Based Food System Assessment and Planning - Facilitator’s Guidebook, publication 3108-9029.- please read the introduction and then continue until page 18.<br />
<br />
Wiskerke, Johannes SC. "On places lost and places regained: Reflections on the alternative food geography and sustainable regional development." International planning studies 14.4 (2009): 369-387.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 3==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2221_download&client_id=main UN Habitat, 2012: Visioning as a Participatory Planning Tool]<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/overview/crfs/en/ website of FAO on City Regions Food Systems]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Cohen and Ilieva (2021). Expanding the boundaries of food policy: The turn to equity in New York City. Food Policy, 103<br />
<br />
Alessandra Manganelli (2020): Realising local food policies: a comparison between Toronto and the Brussels-Capital Region’s stories through the lenses of reflexivity and colearning, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning<br />
<br />
Van de Griend, J., Duncan, J., & Wiskerke, J. (2019). How Civil Servants Frame Participation: Balancing Municipal Responsibility With Citizen Initiative in Ede’s Food Policy. Politics and Governance, 7(4), 59-67<br />
<br />
Jeroen J. L. Candel (2019): What’s on the menu? A global assessment of MUFPP signatory cities’ food strategies, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems<br />
<br />
Sonnino, R. Tegoni, C. De Cunto, A. , (2019) The challenge of systemic food change: Insights from cities, Cities, Vol. 85, pp. 110-116<br />
<br />
Landert, J.; Schader, C.; Moschitz, H.; Stolze, M. A Holistic Sustainability Assessment Method for Urban Food System Governance. Sustainability 2017, 9, 490<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-36-food-policy-councils/ RUAF, Urban Agriculture Magazin no. 36, Food Policy Councils.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 4==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2148_download&client_id=main Scoones et al. (2015) The politics of Green Transformation (Chapter 1). Oxon/New York: Routledge.] <br />
<br />
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtyo5UmdTrl1erONZSdllsbGZaidGBHh/view?usp=share_link David Holmgren’s text “Descent scenarios” chapter 4 of Future Scenario (2008)]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
[https://agriculture-architecture.net/ This is the online exhibition and resource curated by Sebastien Marot]. It consists of 42 panels arranged in 6 thematic lines of thinking. They compose an ideology, i.e. a jurisprudence of ideas, moments and figures which one might bear in mind when considering the nexus of agriculture and architecture, and its evolution.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 5==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=Reading_list&diff=685Reading list2024-03-07T12:39:14Z<p>Admin: /* Reading for phase 1 */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
===Preparatory reading===<br />
====Compulsory====<br />
<br />
* FAO Report : [https://www.fao.org/3/CA2260EN/ca2260en.pdf "Integrating food into urban planning“] page 18 - 32.<br />
* IPES-food: From Plate to Planet: [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/PlatetoPlanet_SummaryEN.pdf How local governments are driving action on climate change through food summary]<br />
* [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/tippingthescales.pdf IPES-food: Who’s Tipping the Scales? Briefing note]<br />
<br />
====Background information====<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/3/cc7724en/online/cc7724en.html FAO THE STATE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2023: Revealing the true cost of food to transform agrifood systems site]<br />
<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLWRclarri0 Hungry Cities by Carolyn Steel video]<br />
<br />
If you want to get familiar with methods for collaborative goal setting, participatory learning, and research you can review the following.<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main The nominal group technique approach is a method for collaborative working on ideas and proposals]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main PALAR methodology - the method for participatory learning and research]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Living Lab approach - how to work together with various groups of participants from communities, academia, civil society, and public authorities.]<br />
<br />
Short PowerPoint explaining the Nominal Group Technique, a method for collaborative [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main goal setting, defining values for groups, collaborative action planning.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 1==<br />
<br />
===Compulsory reading===<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2125_download&client_id=main Tornaghi, Chiara. (2016). Urban Agriculture in the Food‐Disabling City: (Re)defining Urban Food Justice, Reimagining a Politics of Empowerment. Antipode. 49. 10.1111/anti.12291.]<br />
<br />
===Background reading===<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2132_download&client_id=main Short presentation on Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR)]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main Longer presentation on PALAR with criteria and activities.]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Triboi, R. 2022 AESOP4FOOD presentation on Living Labs.]<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-33-urban-agroecology/ Deh-Tor, C.M. . 2017 From Agriculture in the City to an Agroecological Urbanism: The transformative pathway of urban (political) agroecology, in: Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 33 – Urban Agroecology]<br />
<br />
Nasr, J.and M. Potteiger. Spaces, Systems, and Infrastructures: [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2212_download&client_id=main From Founding Visions to Emerging Approaches for the Productive Urban Landscape]<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2143_download&client_id=main Deh-Tor, C.M. 2021. Food as an urban question, and the foundations of a reproductive, agroecological, urbanism, Chapter 1 in: Tornaghi, Ch. and Dehaene, M. 2021. Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions.]<br />
<br />
<br />
FAO. 2019. FAO framework for the Urban Food Agenda. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/ca3151en<br />
<br />
IDS & IPES-Food, 2022. [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/SmokeAndMirrors_BackgroundStudy.pdf Agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions: Competing framings of food system sustainability in global policy and funding spaces.]<br />
<br />
University of California, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. What Is a Community Food System? Community Food Systems. Defining Community Food Systems.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 2==<br />
<br />
===Compulsory reading===<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en?details=ca2260en FAO Report: "Integrating food into urban planning“ page 264 – 275 (Food asset mapping in Toronto and Greater Golden Horseshoe region, by Lauren Baker).]<br />
<br />
=== Recommended and Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Recommended befored March 14, 2024: <br />
[https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)2575-1220.Planning-Food-System-Transitions SI Planning Food System Transitions: Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems (wiley.com)]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Further reading:'''<br />
<br />
Bortoletti, M., and J. Lomax. "Collaborative framework for food systems transformation." A multistakeholder pathway for sustainable food systems. UN environment. ISBN (2019): 978-92.<br />
<br />
Corcoran, M. P. 2021. Beyond ‘food apartheid’: Civil society and the politicization of hunger in New Haven, Connecticut. In: Urban Agric Region Food Syst. 2021;6:e20013. https://doi.org/10.1002/uar2.20013<br />
<br />
Countryside Charity (CPRE – UK) [https://www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LocalZFoodZMappingZToolkitZSampleZPages.pdf https://www.cpre.org.uk/resources/mapping-local-food-webs-toolkit-2/] - just read the 7 pages that explain the toolkit.<br />
<br />
FAO (2019),TOOL FOR AGROECOLOGY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT AND GUIDELINES FOR APPLICATION. Chapter 3. <br />
<br />
FAO. (2018) City Region Food System Toolkit, Assessing and planning sustainable city region food systems, publication of FAO, RUAF and Wilfrid Laurier University. <br />
http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/toolkit/introduction/en/ - please read the introduction (page 1-3) and go over the questions and schemes of page nrs 133 until 144 (please note these are the pages in the pdf 138-149).<br />
<br />
Vaarst, Mette, Arthur Getz Escudero, M. Jahi Chappell, Catherine Brinkley, Ravic Nijbroek, Nilson A.M. Arraes, Lise Andreasen, Andreas Gattinger, Gustavo Fonseca De Almeida, Deborah Bossio & Niels Halberg (2018) Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42:6, 686-711, DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1365321<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A. and Bohn, K. (eds) (2014) Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing productive cities, Routledge: London and New York.<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A., Bohn, K. and Howe, J. (eds and co-authors) (2005) CPULs Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for sustainable cities, Oxford: Architectural Press.<br />
<br />
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. (2011) Community-Based Food System Assessment and Planning - Facilitator’s Guidebook, publication 3108-9029.- please read the introduction and then continue until page 18.<br />
<br />
Wiskerke, Johannes SC. "On places lost and places regained: Reflections on the alternative food geography and sustainable regional development." International planning studies 14.4 (2009): 369-387.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 3==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2221_download&client_id=main UN Habitat, 2012: Visioning as a Participatory Planning Tool]<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/overview/crfs/en/ website of FAO on City Regions Food Systems]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Cohen and Ilieva (2021). Expanding the boundaries of food policy: The turn to equity in New York City. Food Policy, 103<br />
<br />
Alessandra Manganelli (2020): Realising local food policies: a comparison between Toronto and the Brussels-Capital Region’s stories through the lenses of reflexivity and colearning, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning<br />
<br />
Van de Griend, J., Duncan, J., & Wiskerke, J. (2019). How Civil Servants Frame Participation: Balancing Municipal Responsibility With Citizen Initiative in Ede’s Food Policy. Politics and Governance, 7(4), 59-67<br />
<br />
Jeroen J. L. Candel (2019): What’s on the menu? A global assessment of MUFPP signatory cities’ food strategies, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems<br />
<br />
Sonnino, R. Tegoni, C. De Cunto, A. , (2019) The challenge of systemic food change: Insights from cities, Cities, Vol. 85, pp. 110-116<br />
<br />
Landert, J.; Schader, C.; Moschitz, H.; Stolze, M. A Holistic Sustainability Assessment Method for Urban Food System Governance. Sustainability 2017, 9, 490<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-36-food-policy-councils/ RUAF, Urban Agriculture Magazin no. 36, Food Policy Councils.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 4==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2148_download&client_id=main Scoones et al. (2015) The politics of Green Transformation (Chapter 1). Oxon/New York: Routledge.] <br />
<br />
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtyo5UmdTrl1erONZSdllsbGZaidGBHh/view?usp=share_link David Holmgren’s text “Descent scenarios” chapter 4 of Future Scenario (2008)]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
[https://agriculture-architecture.net/ This is the online exhibition and resource curated by Sebastien Marot]. It consists of 42 panels arranged in 6 thematic lines of thinking. They compose an ideology, i.e. a jurisprudence of ideas, moments and figures which one might bear in mind when considering the nexus of agriculture and architecture, and its evolution.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 5==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=Reading_list&diff=684Reading list2024-03-07T12:37:13Z<p>Admin: /* Recommended and Background reading */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
===Preparatory reading===<br />
====Compulsory====<br />
<br />
* FAO Report : [https://www.fao.org/3/CA2260EN/ca2260en.pdf "Integrating food into urban planning“] page 18 - 32.<br />
* IPES-food: From Plate to Planet: [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/PlatetoPlanet_SummaryEN.pdf How local governments are driving action on climate change through food summary]<br />
* [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/tippingthescales.pdf IPES-food: Who’s Tipping the Scales? Briefing note]<br />
<br />
====Background information====<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/3/cc7724en/online/cc7724en.html FAO THE STATE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2023: Revealing the true cost of food to transform agrifood systems site]<br />
<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLWRclarri0 Hungry Cities by Carolyn Steel video]<br />
<br />
If you want to get familiar with methods for collaborative goal setting, participatory learning, and research you can review the following.<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main The nominal group technique approach is a method for collaborative working on ideas and proposals]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main PALAR methodology - the method for participatory learning and research]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Living Lab approach - how to work together with various groups of participants from communities, academia, civil society, and public authorities.]<br />
<br />
Short PowerPoint explaining the Nominal Group Technique, a method for collaborative [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main goal setting, defining values for groups, collaborative action planning.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 1==<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2125_download&client_id=main Tornaghi, Chiara. (2016). Urban Agriculture in the Food‐Disabling City: (Re)defining Urban Food Justice, Reimagining a Politics of Empowerment. Antipode. 49. 10.1111/anti.12291.]<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2132_download&client_id=main Short presentation on Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR)]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main Longer presentation on PALAR with criteria and activities.]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Triboi, R. 2022 AESOP4FOOD presentation on Living Labs.]<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-33-urban-agroecology/ Deh-Tor, C.M. . 2017 From Agriculture in the City to an Agroecological Urbanism: The transformative pathway of urban (political) agroecology, in: Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 33 – Urban Agroecology]<br />
<br />
Nasr, J.and M. Potteiger. Spaces, Systems, and Infrastructures: [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2212_download&client_id=main From Founding Visions to Emerging Approaches for the Productive Urban Landscape]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background reading===<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2143_download&client_id=main Deh-Tor, C.M. 2021. Food as an urban question, and the foundations of a reproductive, agroecological, urbanism, Chapter 1 in: Tornaghi, Ch. and Dehaene, M. 2021. Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions.]<br />
<br />
<br />
FAO. 2019. FAO framework for the Urban Food Agenda. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/ca3151en<br />
<br />
IDS & IPES-Food, 2022. [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/SmokeAndMirrors_BackgroundStudy.pdf Agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions: Competing framings of food system sustainability in global policy and funding spaces.]<br />
<br />
University of California, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. What Is a Community Food System? Community Food Systems. Defining Community Food Systems.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 2==<br />
<br />
===Compulsory reading===<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en?details=ca2260en FAO Report: "Integrating food into urban planning“ page 264 – 275 (Food asset mapping in Toronto and Greater Golden Horseshoe region, by Lauren Baker).]<br />
<br />
=== Recommended and Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Recommended befored March 14, 2024: <br />
[https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)2575-1220.Planning-Food-System-Transitions SI Planning Food System Transitions: Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems (wiley.com)]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Further reading:'''<br />
<br />
Bortoletti, M., and J. Lomax. "Collaborative framework for food systems transformation." A multistakeholder pathway for sustainable food systems. UN environment. ISBN (2019): 978-92.<br />
<br />
Corcoran, M. P. 2021. Beyond ‘food apartheid’: Civil society and the politicization of hunger in New Haven, Connecticut. In: Urban Agric Region Food Syst. 2021;6:e20013. https://doi.org/10.1002/uar2.20013<br />
<br />
Countryside Charity (CPRE – UK) [https://www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LocalZFoodZMappingZToolkitZSampleZPages.pdf https://www.cpre.org.uk/resources/mapping-local-food-webs-toolkit-2/] - just read the 7 pages that explain the toolkit.<br />
<br />
FAO (2019),TOOL FOR AGROECOLOGY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT AND GUIDELINES FOR APPLICATION. Chapter 3. <br />
<br />
FAO. (2018) City Region Food System Toolkit, Assessing and planning sustainable city region food systems, publication of FAO, RUAF and Wilfrid Laurier University. <br />
http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/toolkit/introduction/en/ - please read the introduction (page 1-3) and go over the questions and schemes of page nrs 133 until 144 (please note these are the pages in the pdf 138-149).<br />
<br />
Vaarst, Mette, Arthur Getz Escudero, M. Jahi Chappell, Catherine Brinkley, Ravic Nijbroek, Nilson A.M. Arraes, Lise Andreasen, Andreas Gattinger, Gustavo Fonseca De Almeida, Deborah Bossio & Niels Halberg (2018) Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42:6, 686-711, DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1365321<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A. and Bohn, K. (eds) (2014) Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing productive cities, Routledge: London and New York.<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A., Bohn, K. and Howe, J. (eds and co-authors) (2005) CPULs Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for sustainable cities, Oxford: Architectural Press.<br />
<br />
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. (2011) Community-Based Food System Assessment and Planning - Facilitator’s Guidebook, publication 3108-9029.- please read the introduction and then continue until page 18.<br />
<br />
Wiskerke, Johannes SC. "On places lost and places regained: Reflections on the alternative food geography and sustainable regional development." International planning studies 14.4 (2009): 369-387.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 3==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2221_download&client_id=main UN Habitat, 2012: Visioning as a Participatory Planning Tool]<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/overview/crfs/en/ website of FAO on City Regions Food Systems]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Cohen and Ilieva (2021). Expanding the boundaries of food policy: The turn to equity in New York City. Food Policy, 103<br />
<br />
Alessandra Manganelli (2020): Realising local food policies: a comparison between Toronto and the Brussels-Capital Region’s stories through the lenses of reflexivity and colearning, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning<br />
<br />
Van de Griend, J., Duncan, J., & Wiskerke, J. (2019). How Civil Servants Frame Participation: Balancing Municipal Responsibility With Citizen Initiative in Ede’s Food Policy. Politics and Governance, 7(4), 59-67<br />
<br />
Jeroen J. L. Candel (2019): What’s on the menu? A global assessment of MUFPP signatory cities’ food strategies, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems<br />
<br />
Sonnino, R. Tegoni, C. De Cunto, A. , (2019) The challenge of systemic food change: Insights from cities, Cities, Vol. 85, pp. 110-116<br />
<br />
Landert, J.; Schader, C.; Moschitz, H.; Stolze, M. A Holistic Sustainability Assessment Method for Urban Food System Governance. Sustainability 2017, 9, 490<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-36-food-policy-councils/ RUAF, Urban Agriculture Magazin no. 36, Food Policy Councils.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 4==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2148_download&client_id=main Scoones et al. (2015) The politics of Green Transformation (Chapter 1). Oxon/New York: Routledge.] <br />
<br />
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtyo5UmdTrl1erONZSdllsbGZaidGBHh/view?usp=share_link David Holmgren’s text “Descent scenarios” chapter 4 of Future Scenario (2008)]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
[https://agriculture-architecture.net/ This is the online exhibition and resource curated by Sebastien Marot]. It consists of 42 panels arranged in 6 thematic lines of thinking. They compose an ideology, i.e. a jurisprudence of ideas, moments and figures which one might bear in mind when considering the nexus of agriculture and architecture, and its evolution.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 5==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=Reading_list&diff=683Reading list2024-03-07T12:02:57Z<p>Admin: /* Recommended and Background reading */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
===Preparatory reading===<br />
====Compulsory====<br />
<br />
* FAO Report : [https://www.fao.org/3/CA2260EN/ca2260en.pdf "Integrating food into urban planning“] page 18 - 32.<br />
* IPES-food: From Plate to Planet: [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/PlatetoPlanet_SummaryEN.pdf How local governments are driving action on climate change through food summary]<br />
* [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/tippingthescales.pdf IPES-food: Who’s Tipping the Scales? Briefing note]<br />
<br />
====Background information====<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/3/cc7724en/online/cc7724en.html FAO THE STATE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2023: Revealing the true cost of food to transform agrifood systems site]<br />
<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLWRclarri0 Hungry Cities by Carolyn Steel video]<br />
<br />
If you want to get familiar with methods for collaborative goal setting, participatory learning, and research you can review the following.<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main The nominal group technique approach is a method for collaborative working on ideas and proposals]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main PALAR methodology - the method for participatory learning and research]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Living Lab approach - how to work together with various groups of participants from communities, academia, civil society, and public authorities.]<br />
<br />
Short PowerPoint explaining the Nominal Group Technique, a method for collaborative [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main goal setting, defining values for groups, collaborative action planning.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 1==<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2125_download&client_id=main Tornaghi, Chiara. (2016). Urban Agriculture in the Food‐Disabling City: (Re)defining Urban Food Justice, Reimagining a Politics of Empowerment. Antipode. 49. 10.1111/anti.12291.]<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2132_download&client_id=main Short presentation on Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR)]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main Longer presentation on PALAR with criteria and activities.]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Triboi, R. 2022 AESOP4FOOD presentation on Living Labs.]<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-33-urban-agroecology/ Deh-Tor, C.M. . 2017 From Agriculture in the City to an Agroecological Urbanism: The transformative pathway of urban (political) agroecology, in: Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 33 – Urban Agroecology]<br />
<br />
Nasr, J.and M. Potteiger. Spaces, Systems, and Infrastructures: [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2212_download&client_id=main From Founding Visions to Emerging Approaches for the Productive Urban Landscape]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background reading===<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2143_download&client_id=main Deh-Tor, C.M. 2021. Food as an urban question, and the foundations of a reproductive, agroecological, urbanism, Chapter 1 in: Tornaghi, Ch. and Dehaene, M. 2021. Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions.]<br />
<br />
<br />
FAO. 2019. FAO framework for the Urban Food Agenda. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/ca3151en<br />
<br />
IDS & IPES-Food, 2022. [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/SmokeAndMirrors_BackgroundStudy.pdf Agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions: Competing framings of food system sustainability in global policy and funding spaces.]<br />
<br />
University of California, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. What Is a Community Food System? Community Food Systems. Defining Community Food Systems.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 2==<br />
<br />
===Compulsory reading===<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en?details=ca2260en FAO Report: "Integrating food into urban planning“ page 264 – 275 (Food asset mapping in Toronto and Greater Golden Horseshoe region, by Lauren Baker).]<br />
<br />
=== Recommended and Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Recommended March 7, 2024: <br />
[https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)2575-1220.Planning-Food-System-Transitions SI Planning Food System Transitions: Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems (wiley.com)]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Further reading:'''<br />
<br />
Bortoletti, M., and J. Lomax. "Collaborative framework for food systems transformation." A multistakeholder pathway for sustainable food systems. UN environment. ISBN (2019): 978-92.<br />
<br />
Corcoran, M. P. 2021. Beyond ‘food apartheid’: Civil society and the politicization of hunger in New Haven, Connecticut. In: Urban Agric Region Food Syst. 2021;6:e20013. https://doi.org/10.1002/uar2.20013<br />
<br />
Countryside Charity (CPRE – UK) [https://www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LocalZFoodZMappingZToolkitZSampleZPages.pdf https://www.cpre.org.uk/resources/mapping-local-food-webs-toolkit-2/] - just read the 7 pages that explain the toolkit.<br />
<br />
FAO (2019),TOOL FOR AGROECOLOGY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT AND GUIDELINES FOR APPLICATION. Chapter 3. <br />
<br />
FAO. (2018) City Region Food System Toolkit, Assessing and planning sustainable city region food systems, publication of FAO, RUAF and Wilfrid Laurier University. <br />
http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/toolkit/introduction/en/ - please read the introduction (page 1-3) and go over the questions and schemes of page nrs 133 until 144 (please note these are the pages in the pdf 138-149).<br />
<br />
Vaarst, Mette, Arthur Getz Escudero, M. Jahi Chappell, Catherine Brinkley, Ravic Nijbroek, Nilson A.M. Arraes, Lise Andreasen, Andreas Gattinger, Gustavo Fonseca De Almeida, Deborah Bossio & Niels Halberg (2018) Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42:6, 686-711, DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1365321<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A. and Bohn, K. (eds) (2014) Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing productive cities, Routledge: London and New York.<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A., Bohn, K. and Howe, J. (eds and co-authors) (2005) CPULs Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for sustainable cities, Oxford: Architectural Press.<br />
<br />
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. (2011) Community-Based Food System Assessment and Planning - Facilitator’s Guidebook, publication 3108-9029.- please read the introduction and then continue until page 18.<br />
<br />
Wiskerke, Johannes SC. "On places lost and places regained: Reflections on the alternative food geography and sustainable regional development." International planning studies 14.4 (2009): 369-387.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 3==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2221_download&client_id=main UN Habitat, 2012: Visioning as a Participatory Planning Tool]<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/overview/crfs/en/ website of FAO on City Regions Food Systems]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Cohen and Ilieva (2021). Expanding the boundaries of food policy: The turn to equity in New York City. Food Policy, 103<br />
<br />
Alessandra Manganelli (2020): Realising local food policies: a comparison between Toronto and the Brussels-Capital Region’s stories through the lenses of reflexivity and colearning, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning<br />
<br />
Van de Griend, J., Duncan, J., & Wiskerke, J. (2019). How Civil Servants Frame Participation: Balancing Municipal Responsibility With Citizen Initiative in Ede’s Food Policy. Politics and Governance, 7(4), 59-67<br />
<br />
Jeroen J. L. Candel (2019): What’s on the menu? A global assessment of MUFPP signatory cities’ food strategies, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems<br />
<br />
Sonnino, R. Tegoni, C. De Cunto, A. , (2019) The challenge of systemic food change: Insights from cities, Cities, Vol. 85, pp. 110-116<br />
<br />
Landert, J.; Schader, C.; Moschitz, H.; Stolze, M. A Holistic Sustainability Assessment Method for Urban Food System Governance. Sustainability 2017, 9, 490<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-36-food-policy-councils/ RUAF, Urban Agriculture Magazin no. 36, Food Policy Councils.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 4==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2148_download&client_id=main Scoones et al. (2015) The politics of Green Transformation (Chapter 1). Oxon/New York: Routledge.] <br />
<br />
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtyo5UmdTrl1erONZSdllsbGZaidGBHh/view?usp=share_link David Holmgren’s text “Descent scenarios” chapter 4 of Future Scenario (2008)]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
[https://agriculture-architecture.net/ This is the online exhibition and resource curated by Sebastien Marot]. It consists of 42 panels arranged in 6 thematic lines of thinking. They compose an ideology, i.e. a jurisprudence of ideas, moments and figures which one might bear in mind when considering the nexus of agriculture and architecture, and its evolution.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 5==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=Reading_list&diff=682Reading list2024-03-07T12:01:23Z<p>Admin: /* Recommended and Background reading */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
===Preparatory reading===<br />
====Compulsory====<br />
<br />
* FAO Report : [https://www.fao.org/3/CA2260EN/ca2260en.pdf "Integrating food into urban planning“] page 18 - 32.<br />
* IPES-food: From Plate to Planet: [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/PlatetoPlanet_SummaryEN.pdf How local governments are driving action on climate change through food summary]<br />
* [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/tippingthescales.pdf IPES-food: Who’s Tipping the Scales? Briefing note]<br />
<br />
====Background information====<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/3/cc7724en/online/cc7724en.html FAO THE STATE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2023: Revealing the true cost of food to transform agrifood systems site]<br />
<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLWRclarri0 Hungry Cities by Carolyn Steel video]<br />
<br />
If you want to get familiar with methods for collaborative goal setting, participatory learning, and research you can review the following.<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main The nominal group technique approach is a method for collaborative working on ideas and proposals]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main PALAR methodology - the method for participatory learning and research]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Living Lab approach - how to work together with various groups of participants from communities, academia, civil society, and public authorities.]<br />
<br />
Short PowerPoint explaining the Nominal Group Technique, a method for collaborative [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main goal setting, defining values for groups, collaborative action planning.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 1==<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2125_download&client_id=main Tornaghi, Chiara. (2016). Urban Agriculture in the Food‐Disabling City: (Re)defining Urban Food Justice, Reimagining a Politics of Empowerment. Antipode. 49. 10.1111/anti.12291.]<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2132_download&client_id=main Short presentation on Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR)]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main Longer presentation on PALAR with criteria and activities.]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Triboi, R. 2022 AESOP4FOOD presentation on Living Labs.]<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-33-urban-agroecology/ Deh-Tor, C.M. . 2017 From Agriculture in the City to an Agroecological Urbanism: The transformative pathway of urban (political) agroecology, in: Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 33 – Urban Agroecology]<br />
<br />
Nasr, J.and M. Potteiger. Spaces, Systems, and Infrastructures: [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2212_download&client_id=main From Founding Visions to Emerging Approaches for the Productive Urban Landscape]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background reading===<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2143_download&client_id=main Deh-Tor, C.M. 2021. Food as an urban question, and the foundations of a reproductive, agroecological, urbanism, Chapter 1 in: Tornaghi, Ch. and Dehaene, M. 2021. Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions.]<br />
<br />
<br />
FAO. 2019. FAO framework for the Urban Food Agenda. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/ca3151en<br />
<br />
IDS & IPES-Food, 2022. [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/SmokeAndMirrors_BackgroundStudy.pdf Agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions: Competing framings of food system sustainability in global policy and funding spaces.]<br />
<br />
University of California, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. What Is a Community Food System? Community Food Systems. Defining Community Food Systems.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 2==<br />
<br />
===Compulsory reading===<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en?details=ca2260en FAO Report: "Integrating food into urban planning“ page 264 – 275 (Food asset mapping in Toronto and Greater Golden Horseshoe region, by Lauren Baker).]<br />
<br />
=== Recommended and Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Recommended March 7, 2024: <br />
SI Planning Food System Transitions: Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems (wiley.com)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Further reading:'''<br />
<br />
Bortoletti, M., and J. Lomax. "Collaborative framework for food systems transformation." A multistakeholder pathway for sustainable food systems. UN environment. ISBN (2019): 978-92.<br />
<br />
Corcoran, M. P. 2021. Beyond ‘food apartheid’: Civil society and the politicization of hunger in New Haven, Connecticut. In: Urban Agric Region Food Syst. 2021;6:e20013. https://doi.org/10.1002/uar2.20013<br />
<br />
Countryside Charity (CPRE – UK) [https://www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LocalZFoodZMappingZToolkitZSampleZPages.pdf https://www.cpre.org.uk/resources/mapping-local-food-webs-toolkit-2/] - just read the 7 pages that explain the toolkit.<br />
<br />
FAO (2019),TOOL FOR AGROECOLOGY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT AND GUIDELINES FOR APPLICATION. Chapter 3. <br />
<br />
FAO. (2018) City Region Food System Toolkit, Assessing and planning sustainable city region food systems, publication of FAO, RUAF and Wilfrid Laurier University. <br />
http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/toolkit/introduction/en/ - please read the introduction (page 1-3) and go over the questions and schemes of page nrs 133 until 144 (please note these are the pages in the pdf 138-149).<br />
<br />
Vaarst, Mette, Arthur Getz Escudero, M. Jahi Chappell, Catherine Brinkley, Ravic Nijbroek, Nilson A.M. Arraes, Lise Andreasen, Andreas Gattinger, Gustavo Fonseca De Almeida, Deborah Bossio & Niels Halberg (2018) Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42:6, 686-711, DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1365321<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A. and Bohn, K. (eds) (2014) Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing productive cities, Routledge: London and New York.<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A., Bohn, K. and Howe, J. (eds and co-authors) (2005) CPULs Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for sustainable cities, Oxford: Architectural Press.<br />
<br />
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. (2011) Community-Based Food System Assessment and Planning - Facilitator’s Guidebook, publication 3108-9029.- please read the introduction and then continue until page 18.<br />
<br />
Wiskerke, Johannes SC. "On places lost and places regained: Reflections on the alternative food geography and sustainable regional development." International planning studies 14.4 (2009): 369-387.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 3==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2221_download&client_id=main UN Habitat, 2012: Visioning as a Participatory Planning Tool]<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/overview/crfs/en/ website of FAO on City Regions Food Systems]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Cohen and Ilieva (2021). Expanding the boundaries of food policy: The turn to equity in New York City. Food Policy, 103<br />
<br />
Alessandra Manganelli (2020): Realising local food policies: a comparison between Toronto and the Brussels-Capital Region’s stories through the lenses of reflexivity and colearning, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning<br />
<br />
Van de Griend, J., Duncan, J., & Wiskerke, J. (2019). How Civil Servants Frame Participation: Balancing Municipal Responsibility With Citizen Initiative in Ede’s Food Policy. Politics and Governance, 7(4), 59-67<br />
<br />
Jeroen J. L. Candel (2019): What’s on the menu? A global assessment of MUFPP signatory cities’ food strategies, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems<br />
<br />
Sonnino, R. Tegoni, C. De Cunto, A. , (2019) The challenge of systemic food change: Insights from cities, Cities, Vol. 85, pp. 110-116<br />
<br />
Landert, J.; Schader, C.; Moschitz, H.; Stolze, M. A Holistic Sustainability Assessment Method for Urban Food System Governance. Sustainability 2017, 9, 490<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-36-food-policy-councils/ RUAF, Urban Agriculture Magazin no. 36, Food Policy Councils.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 4==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2148_download&client_id=main Scoones et al. (2015) The politics of Green Transformation (Chapter 1). Oxon/New York: Routledge.] <br />
<br />
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtyo5UmdTrl1erONZSdllsbGZaidGBHh/view?usp=share_link David Holmgren’s text “Descent scenarios” chapter 4 of Future Scenario (2008)]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
[https://agriculture-architecture.net/ This is the online exhibition and resource curated by Sebastien Marot]. It consists of 42 panels arranged in 6 thematic lines of thinking. They compose an ideology, i.e. a jurisprudence of ideas, moments and figures which one might bear in mind when considering the nexus of agriculture and architecture, and its evolution.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 5==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=Reading_list&diff=681Reading list2024-03-07T12:01:01Z<p>Admin: /* Compulsory reading */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
===Preparatory reading===<br />
====Compulsory====<br />
<br />
* FAO Report : [https://www.fao.org/3/CA2260EN/ca2260en.pdf "Integrating food into urban planning“] page 18 - 32.<br />
* IPES-food: From Plate to Planet: [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/PlatetoPlanet_SummaryEN.pdf How local governments are driving action on climate change through food summary]<br />
* [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/tippingthescales.pdf IPES-food: Who’s Tipping the Scales? Briefing note]<br />
<br />
====Background information====<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/3/cc7724en/online/cc7724en.html FAO THE STATE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2023: Revealing the true cost of food to transform agrifood systems site]<br />
<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLWRclarri0 Hungry Cities by Carolyn Steel video]<br />
<br />
If you want to get familiar with methods for collaborative goal setting, participatory learning, and research you can review the following.<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main The nominal group technique approach is a method for collaborative working on ideas and proposals]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main PALAR methodology - the method for participatory learning and research]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Living Lab approach - how to work together with various groups of participants from communities, academia, civil society, and public authorities.]<br />
<br />
Short PowerPoint explaining the Nominal Group Technique, a method for collaborative [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main goal setting, defining values for groups, collaborative action planning.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 1==<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2125_download&client_id=main Tornaghi, Chiara. (2016). Urban Agriculture in the Food‐Disabling City: (Re)defining Urban Food Justice, Reimagining a Politics of Empowerment. Antipode. 49. 10.1111/anti.12291.]<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2132_download&client_id=main Short presentation on Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR)]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main Longer presentation on PALAR with criteria and activities.]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Triboi, R. 2022 AESOP4FOOD presentation on Living Labs.]<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-33-urban-agroecology/ Deh-Tor, C.M. . 2017 From Agriculture in the City to an Agroecological Urbanism: The transformative pathway of urban (political) agroecology, in: Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 33 – Urban Agroecology]<br />
<br />
Nasr, J.and M. Potteiger. Spaces, Systems, and Infrastructures: [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2212_download&client_id=main From Founding Visions to Emerging Approaches for the Productive Urban Landscape]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background reading===<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2143_download&client_id=main Deh-Tor, C.M. 2021. Food as an urban question, and the foundations of a reproductive, agroecological, urbanism, Chapter 1 in: Tornaghi, Ch. and Dehaene, M. 2021. Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions.]<br />
<br />
<br />
FAO. 2019. FAO framework for the Urban Food Agenda. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/ca3151en<br />
<br />
IDS & IPES-Food, 2022. [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/SmokeAndMirrors_BackgroundStudy.pdf Agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions: Competing framings of food system sustainability in global policy and funding spaces.]<br />
<br />
University of California, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. What Is a Community Food System? Community Food Systems. Defining Community Food Systems.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 2==<br />
<br />
===Compulsory reading===<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en?details=ca2260en FAO Report: "Integrating food into urban planning“ page 264 – 275 (Food asset mapping in Toronto and Greater Golden Horseshoe region, by Lauren Baker).]<br />
<br />
=== Recommended and Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Recommended March 7, 2024: <br />
SI Planning Food System Transitions: Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems (wiley.com)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Further reading:<br />
<br />
Bortoletti, M., and J. Lomax. "Collaborative framework for food systems transformation." A multistakeholder pathway for sustainable food systems. UN environment. ISBN (2019): 978-92.<br />
<br />
Corcoran, M. P. 2021. Beyond ‘food apartheid’: Civil society and the politicization of hunger in New Haven, Connecticut. In: Urban Agric Region Food Syst. 2021;6:e20013. https://doi.org/10.1002/uar2.20013<br />
<br />
Countryside Charity (CPRE – UK) [https://www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LocalZFoodZMappingZToolkitZSampleZPages.pdf https://www.cpre.org.uk/resources/mapping-local-food-webs-toolkit-2/] - just read the 7 pages that explain the toolkit.<br />
<br />
FAO (2019),TOOL FOR AGROECOLOGY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT AND GUIDELINES FOR APPLICATION. Chapter 3. <br />
<br />
FAO. (2018) City Region Food System Toolkit, Assessing and planning sustainable city region food systems, publication of FAO, RUAF and Wilfrid Laurier University. <br />
http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/toolkit/introduction/en/ - please read the introduction (page 1-3) and go over the questions and schemes of page nrs 133 until 144 (please note these are the pages in the pdf 138-149).<br />
<br />
Vaarst, Mette, Arthur Getz Escudero, M. Jahi Chappell, Catherine Brinkley, Ravic Nijbroek, Nilson A.M. Arraes, Lise Andreasen, Andreas Gattinger, Gustavo Fonseca De Almeida, Deborah Bossio & Niels Halberg (2018) Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42:6, 686-711, DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1365321<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A. and Bohn, K. (eds) (2014) Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing productive cities, Routledge: London and New York.<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A., Bohn, K. and Howe, J. (eds and co-authors) (2005) CPULs Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for sustainable cities, Oxford: Architectural Press.<br />
<br />
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. (2011) Community-Based Food System Assessment and Planning - Facilitator’s Guidebook, publication 3108-9029.- please read the introduction and then continue until page 18.<br />
<br />
Wiskerke, Johannes SC. "On places lost and places regained: Reflections on the alternative food geography and sustainable regional development." International planning studies 14.4 (2009): 369-387.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 3==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2221_download&client_id=main UN Habitat, 2012: Visioning as a Participatory Planning Tool]<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/overview/crfs/en/ website of FAO on City Regions Food Systems]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Cohen and Ilieva (2021). Expanding the boundaries of food policy: The turn to equity in New York City. Food Policy, 103<br />
<br />
Alessandra Manganelli (2020): Realising local food policies: a comparison between Toronto and the Brussels-Capital Region’s stories through the lenses of reflexivity and colearning, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning<br />
<br />
Van de Griend, J., Duncan, J., & Wiskerke, J. (2019). How Civil Servants Frame Participation: Balancing Municipal Responsibility With Citizen Initiative in Ede’s Food Policy. Politics and Governance, 7(4), 59-67<br />
<br />
Jeroen J. L. Candel (2019): What’s on the menu? A global assessment of MUFPP signatory cities’ food strategies, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems<br />
<br />
Sonnino, R. Tegoni, C. De Cunto, A. , (2019) The challenge of systemic food change: Insights from cities, Cities, Vol. 85, pp. 110-116<br />
<br />
Landert, J.; Schader, C.; Moschitz, H.; Stolze, M. A Holistic Sustainability Assessment Method for Urban Food System Governance. Sustainability 2017, 9, 490<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-36-food-policy-councils/ RUAF, Urban Agriculture Magazin no. 36, Food Policy Councils.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 4==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2148_download&client_id=main Scoones et al. (2015) The politics of Green Transformation (Chapter 1). Oxon/New York: Routledge.] <br />
<br />
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtyo5UmdTrl1erONZSdllsbGZaidGBHh/view?usp=share_link David Holmgren’s text “Descent scenarios” chapter 4 of Future Scenario (2008)]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
[https://agriculture-architecture.net/ This is the online exhibition and resource curated by Sebastien Marot]. It consists of 42 panels arranged in 6 thematic lines of thinking. They compose an ideology, i.e. a jurisprudence of ideas, moments and figures which one might bear in mind when considering the nexus of agriculture and architecture, and its evolution.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 5==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=Reading_list&diff=680Reading list2024-03-07T11:59:23Z<p>Admin: /* Reading for phase 2 */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
===Preparatory reading===<br />
====Compulsory====<br />
<br />
* FAO Report : [https://www.fao.org/3/CA2260EN/ca2260en.pdf "Integrating food into urban planning“] page 18 - 32.<br />
* IPES-food: From Plate to Planet: [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/PlatetoPlanet_SummaryEN.pdf How local governments are driving action on climate change through food summary]<br />
* [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/tippingthescales.pdf IPES-food: Who’s Tipping the Scales? Briefing note]<br />
<br />
====Background information====<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/3/cc7724en/online/cc7724en.html FAO THE STATE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2023: Revealing the true cost of food to transform agrifood systems site]<br />
<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLWRclarri0 Hungry Cities by Carolyn Steel video]<br />
<br />
If you want to get familiar with methods for collaborative goal setting, participatory learning, and research you can review the following.<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main The nominal group technique approach is a method for collaborative working on ideas and proposals]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main PALAR methodology - the method for participatory learning and research]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Living Lab approach - how to work together with various groups of participants from communities, academia, civil society, and public authorities.]<br />
<br />
Short PowerPoint explaining the Nominal Group Technique, a method for collaborative [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main goal setting, defining values for groups, collaborative action planning.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 1==<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2125_download&client_id=main Tornaghi, Chiara. (2016). Urban Agriculture in the Food‐Disabling City: (Re)defining Urban Food Justice, Reimagining a Politics of Empowerment. Antipode. 49. 10.1111/anti.12291.]<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2132_download&client_id=main Short presentation on Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR)]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main Longer presentation on PALAR with criteria and activities.]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Triboi, R. 2022 AESOP4FOOD presentation on Living Labs.]<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-33-urban-agroecology/ Deh-Tor, C.M. . 2017 From Agriculture in the City to an Agroecological Urbanism: The transformative pathway of urban (political) agroecology, in: Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 33 – Urban Agroecology]<br />
<br />
Nasr, J.and M. Potteiger. Spaces, Systems, and Infrastructures: [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2212_download&client_id=main From Founding Visions to Emerging Approaches for the Productive Urban Landscape]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background reading===<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2143_download&client_id=main Deh-Tor, C.M. 2021. Food as an urban question, and the foundations of a reproductive, agroecological, urbanism, Chapter 1 in: Tornaghi, Ch. and Dehaene, M. 2021. Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions.]<br />
<br />
<br />
FAO. 2019. FAO framework for the Urban Food Agenda. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/ca3151en<br />
<br />
IDS & IPES-Food, 2022. [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/SmokeAndMirrors_BackgroundStudy.pdf Agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions: Competing framings of food system sustainability in global policy and funding spaces.]<br />
<br />
University of California, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. What Is a Community Food System? Community Food Systems. Defining Community Food Systems.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 2==<br />
<br />
===Compulsory reading===<br />
<br />
FAO Report : "Integrating food into urban planning“ page 264 – 275 (Food asset mapping in Toronto and Greater Golden Horseshoe region, by Lauren Baker). <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Recommended and Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Recommended March 7, 2024: <br />
SI Planning Food System Transitions: Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems (wiley.com)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Further reading:<br />
<br />
Bortoletti, M., and J. Lomax. "Collaborative framework for food systems transformation." A multistakeholder pathway for sustainable food systems. UN environment. ISBN (2019): 978-92.<br />
<br />
Corcoran, M. P. 2021. Beyond ‘food apartheid’: Civil society and the politicization of hunger in New Haven, Connecticut. In: Urban Agric Region Food Syst. 2021;6:e20013. https://doi.org/10.1002/uar2.20013<br />
<br />
Countryside Charity (CPRE – UK) [https://www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LocalZFoodZMappingZToolkitZSampleZPages.pdf https://www.cpre.org.uk/resources/mapping-local-food-webs-toolkit-2/] - just read the 7 pages that explain the toolkit.<br />
<br />
FAO (2019),TOOL FOR AGROECOLOGY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT AND GUIDELINES FOR APPLICATION. Chapter 3. <br />
<br />
FAO. (2018) City Region Food System Toolkit, Assessing and planning sustainable city region food systems, publication of FAO, RUAF and Wilfrid Laurier University. <br />
http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/toolkit/introduction/en/ - please read the introduction (page 1-3) and go over the questions and schemes of page nrs 133 until 144 (please note these are the pages in the pdf 138-149).<br />
<br />
Vaarst, Mette, Arthur Getz Escudero, M. Jahi Chappell, Catherine Brinkley, Ravic Nijbroek, Nilson A.M. Arraes, Lise Andreasen, Andreas Gattinger, Gustavo Fonseca De Almeida, Deborah Bossio & Niels Halberg (2018) Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42:6, 686-711, DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1365321<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A. and Bohn, K. (eds) (2014) Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing productive cities, Routledge: London and New York.<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A., Bohn, K. and Howe, J. (eds and co-authors) (2005) CPULs Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for sustainable cities, Oxford: Architectural Press.<br />
<br />
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. (2011) Community-Based Food System Assessment and Planning - Facilitator’s Guidebook, publication 3108-9029.- please read the introduction and then continue until page 18.<br />
<br />
Wiskerke, Johannes SC. "On places lost and places regained: Reflections on the alternative food geography and sustainable regional development." International planning studies 14.4 (2009): 369-387.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 3==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2221_download&client_id=main UN Habitat, 2012: Visioning as a Participatory Planning Tool]<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/overview/crfs/en/ website of FAO on City Regions Food Systems]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Cohen and Ilieva (2021). Expanding the boundaries of food policy: The turn to equity in New York City. Food Policy, 103<br />
<br />
Alessandra Manganelli (2020): Realising local food policies: a comparison between Toronto and the Brussels-Capital Region’s stories through the lenses of reflexivity and colearning, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning<br />
<br />
Van de Griend, J., Duncan, J., & Wiskerke, J. (2019). How Civil Servants Frame Participation: Balancing Municipal Responsibility With Citizen Initiative in Ede’s Food Policy. Politics and Governance, 7(4), 59-67<br />
<br />
Jeroen J. L. Candel (2019): What’s on the menu? A global assessment of MUFPP signatory cities’ food strategies, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems<br />
<br />
Sonnino, R. Tegoni, C. De Cunto, A. , (2019) The challenge of systemic food change: Insights from cities, Cities, Vol. 85, pp. 110-116<br />
<br />
Landert, J.; Schader, C.; Moschitz, H.; Stolze, M. A Holistic Sustainability Assessment Method for Urban Food System Governance. Sustainability 2017, 9, 490<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-36-food-policy-councils/ RUAF, Urban Agriculture Magazin no. 36, Food Policy Councils.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 4==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2148_download&client_id=main Scoones et al. (2015) The politics of Green Transformation (Chapter 1). Oxon/New York: Routledge.] <br />
<br />
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtyo5UmdTrl1erONZSdllsbGZaidGBHh/view?usp=share_link David Holmgren’s text “Descent scenarios” chapter 4 of Future Scenario (2008)]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
[https://agriculture-architecture.net/ This is the online exhibition and resource curated by Sebastien Marot]. It consists of 42 panels arranged in 6 thematic lines of thinking. They compose an ideology, i.e. a jurisprudence of ideas, moments and figures which one might bear in mind when considering the nexus of agriculture and architecture, and its evolution.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 5==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=679AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-03-06T10:34:54Z<p>Admin: /* Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024 */</p>
<hr />
<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person.<br />
Those who still want to benefit from the course can view the presentations and recordings, which will be available after each session. These will be presented on the bottom of this page. [[https://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php/Seminar_schedule_2023|Presentations and recordings of the previous course in 2023 can be found here]].<br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.<br />
<br />
=Phases and sessions of the course=<br />
Here you will find the presentations and recordings after each session. Those of the [[Seminar_schedule_2023|previous seminar in 2023 can be found here.]]<br />
<br />
==Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024==<br />
<br />
Roxana Triboi, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented an overview of the seminar with the main learning goals and Jeroen de Vries introduced the main concepts and the assignments. Damien Conaré, l'Institut Agro Montpellier, provided insight into the field of play, looking back at the development of food systems and showing the impact of the current system. He presented current initiatives and policies for sustainable food planning. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2332_download&client_id=main You can view the PowerPoint here.]<br />
<br />
==Presentation of the introduction of participatory action research March 5, 2024==<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented quality criteria, validation, and methods for participatory action research based on the publication of Wood and his experience in the Landscape Democracy Project. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2333_download&client_id=main You can view the presentation here.]</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=678AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-03-06T10:16:14Z<p>Admin: </p>
<hr />
<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person.<br />
Those who still want to benefit from the course can view the presentations and recordings, which will be available after each session. These will be presented on the bottom of this page. [[https://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php/Seminar_schedule_2023|Presentations and recordings of the previous course in 2023 can be found here]].<br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.<br />
<br />
=Phases and sessions of the course=<br />
Here you will find the presentations and recordings after each session. Those of the [[Seminar_schedule_2023|previous seminar in 2023 can be found here.]]<br />
<br />
==Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024==<br />
<br />
Roxana Triboi presented an overview of the seminar with the main learning goals and Jeroen de Vries introduced the main concepts and the assignments. Damien Conaré provided insight into the field of play, looking back at the development of food systems and showing the impact of the current system. He presented current initiatives and policies for sustainable food planning. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2332_download&client_id=main You can view the PowerPoint here.]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Presentation of the introduction of participatory action research March 5, 2024==<br />
Jeroen de Vries, LE:NOTRE Institute, presented quality criteria, validation, and methods for participatory action research based on the publication of Wood and his experience in the Landscape Democracy Project. [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2333_download&client_id=main You can view the presentation here.]</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=Reading_list&diff=677Reading list2024-02-27T09:51:49Z<p>Admin: /* Compulsor */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
===Preparatory reading===<br />
====Compulsory====<br />
<br />
* FAO Report : [https://www.fao.org/3/CA2260EN/ca2260en.pdf "Integrating food into urban planning“] page 18 - 32.<br />
* IPES-food: From Plate to Planet: [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/PlatetoPlanet_SummaryEN.pdf How local governments are driving action on climate change through food summary]<br />
* [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/tippingthescales.pdf IPES-food: Who’s Tipping the Scales? Briefing note]<br />
<br />
====Background information====<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/3/cc7724en/online/cc7724en.html FAO THE STATE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2023: Revealing the true cost of food to transform agrifood systems site]<br />
<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLWRclarri0 Hungry Cities by Carolyn Steel video]<br />
<br />
If you want to get familiar with methods for collaborative goal setting, participatory learning, and research you can review the following.<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main The nominal group technique approach is a method for collaborative working on ideas and proposals]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main PALAR methodology - the method for participatory learning and research]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Living Lab approach - how to work together with various groups of participants from communities, academia, civil society, and public authorities.]<br />
<br />
Short PowerPoint explaining the Nominal Group Technique, a method for collaborative [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main goal setting, defining values for groups, collaborative action planning.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 1==<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2125_download&client_id=main Tornaghi, Chiara. (2016). Urban Agriculture in the Food‐Disabling City: (Re)defining Urban Food Justice, Reimagining a Politics of Empowerment. Antipode. 49. 10.1111/anti.12291.]<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2132_download&client_id=main Short presentation on Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR)]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main Longer presentation on PALAR with criteria and activities.]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Triboi, R. 2022 AESOP4FOOD presentation on Living Labs.]<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-33-urban-agroecology/ Deh-Tor, C.M. . 2017 From Agriculture in the City to an Agroecological Urbanism: The transformative pathway of urban (political) agroecology, in: Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 33 – Urban Agroecology]<br />
<br />
Nasr, J.and M. Potteiger. Spaces, Systems, and Infrastructures: [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2212_download&client_id=main From Founding Visions to Emerging Approaches for the Productive Urban Landscape]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background reading===<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2143_download&client_id=main Deh-Tor, C.M. 2021. Food as an urban question, and the foundations of a reproductive, agroecological, urbanism, Chapter 1 in: Tornaghi, Ch. and Dehaene, M. 2021. Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions.]<br />
<br />
<br />
FAO. 2019. FAO framework for the Urban Food Agenda. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/ca3151en<br />
<br />
IDS & IPES-Food, 2022. [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/SmokeAndMirrors_BackgroundStudy.pdf Agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions: Competing framings of food system sustainability in global policy and funding spaces.]<br />
<br />
University of California, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. What Is a Community Food System? Community Food Systems. Defining Community Food Systems.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 2==<br />
<br />
FAO. (2018) City Region Food System Toolkit, Assessing and planning sustainable city region food systems, publication of FAO, RUAF and Wilfrid Laurier University. <br />
http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/toolkit/introduction/en/ - please read the introduction (page 1-3) and go over the questions and schemes of page nrs 133 until 144 (please note these are the pages in the pdf 138-149).<br />
<br />
Mette Vaarst, Arthur Getz Escudero, M. Jahi Chappell, Catherine Brinkley, Ravic Nijbroek, Nilson A.M. Arraes, Lise Andreasen, Andreas Gattinger, Gustavo Fonseca De Almeida, Deborah Bossio & Niels Halberg (2018) Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42:6, 686-711, DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1365321<br />
<br />
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. (2011) Community-Based Food System Assessment and Planning - Facilitator’s Guidebook, publication 3108-9029.- please read the introduction and then continue until page 18.<br />
<br />
Countryside Charity (CPRE – UK) [https://www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LocalZFoodZMappingZToolkitZSampleZPages.pdf https://www.cpre.org.uk/resources/mapping-local-food-webs-toolkit-2/] - just read the 7 pages that explain the toolkit.<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
Bortoletti, M., and J. Lomax. "Collaborative framework for food systems transformation." A multistakeholder pathway for sustainable food systems. UN environment. ISBN (2019): 978-92.<br />
<br />
Corcoran, M. P. 2021. Beyond ‘food apartheid’: Civil society and the politicization of hunger in New Haven, Connecticut. In: Urban Agric Region Food Syst. 2021;6:e20013. https://doi.org/10.1002/uar2.20013<br />
<br />
FAO (2019),TOOL FOR AGROECOLOGY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT AND GUIDELINES FOR APPLICATION. Chapter 3. <br />
<br />
Viljoen, A. and Bohn, K. (eds) (2014) Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing productive cities, Routledge: London and New York.<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A., Bohn, K. and Howe, J. (eds and co-authors) (2005) CPULs Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for sustainable cities, Oxford: Architectural Press.<br />
<br />
Wiskerke, Johannes SC. "On places lost and places regained: Reflections on the alternative food geography and sustainable regional development." International planning studies 14.4 (2009): 369-387.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 3==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2221_download&client_id=main UN Habitat, 2012: Visioning as a Participatory Planning Tool]<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/overview/crfs/en/ website of FAO on City Regions Food Systems]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Cohen and Ilieva (2021). Expanding the boundaries of food policy: The turn to equity in New York City. Food Policy, 103<br />
<br />
Alessandra Manganelli (2020): Realising local food policies: a comparison between Toronto and the Brussels-Capital Region’s stories through the lenses of reflexivity and colearning, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning<br />
<br />
Van de Griend, J., Duncan, J., & Wiskerke, J. (2019). How Civil Servants Frame Participation: Balancing Municipal Responsibility With Citizen Initiative in Ede’s Food Policy. Politics and Governance, 7(4), 59-67<br />
<br />
Jeroen J. L. Candel (2019): What’s on the menu? A global assessment of MUFPP signatory cities’ food strategies, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems<br />
<br />
Sonnino, R. Tegoni, C. De Cunto, A. , (2019) The challenge of systemic food change: Insights from cities, Cities, Vol. 85, pp. 110-116<br />
<br />
Landert, J.; Schader, C.; Moschitz, H.; Stolze, M. A Holistic Sustainability Assessment Method for Urban Food System Governance. Sustainability 2017, 9, 490<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-36-food-policy-councils/ RUAF, Urban Agriculture Magazin no. 36, Food Policy Councils.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 4==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2148_download&client_id=main Scoones et al. (2015) The politics of Green Transformation (Chapter 1). Oxon/New York: Routledge.] <br />
<br />
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtyo5UmdTrl1erONZSdllsbGZaidGBHh/view?usp=share_link David Holmgren’s text “Descent scenarios” chapter 4 of Future Scenario (2008)]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
[https://agriculture-architecture.net/ This is the online exhibition and resource curated by Sebastien Marot]. It consists of 42 panels arranged in 6 thematic lines of thinking. They compose an ideology, i.e. a jurisprudence of ideas, moments and figures which one might bear in mind when considering the nexus of agriculture and architecture, and its evolution.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 5==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=Reading_list&diff=676Reading list2024-02-27T09:51:36Z<p>Admin: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
===Preparatory reading===<br />
====Compulsor====<br />
<br />
* FAO Report : [https://www.fao.org/3/CA2260EN/ca2260en.pdf "Integrating food into urban planning“] page 18 - 32.<br />
* IPES-food: From Plate to Planet: [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/PlatetoPlanet_SummaryEN.pdf How local governments are driving action on climate change through food summary]<br />
* [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/tippingthescales.pdf IPES-food: Who’s Tipping the Scales? Briefing note] <br />
<br />
====Background information====<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/3/cc7724en/online/cc7724en.html FAO THE STATE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2023: Revealing the true cost of food to transform agrifood systems site]<br />
<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLWRclarri0 Hungry Cities by Carolyn Steel video]<br />
<br />
If you want to get familiar with methods for collaborative goal setting, participatory learning, and research you can review the following.<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main The nominal group technique approach is a method for collaborative working on ideas and proposals]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main PALAR methodology - the method for participatory learning and research]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Living Lab approach - how to work together with various groups of participants from communities, academia, civil society, and public authorities.]<br />
<br />
Short PowerPoint explaining the Nominal Group Technique, a method for collaborative [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main goal setting, defining values for groups, collaborative action planning.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 1==<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2125_download&client_id=main Tornaghi, Chiara. (2016). Urban Agriculture in the Food‐Disabling City: (Re)defining Urban Food Justice, Reimagining a Politics of Empowerment. Antipode. 49. 10.1111/anti.12291.]<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2132_download&client_id=main Short presentation on Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR)]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main Longer presentation on PALAR with criteria and activities.]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Triboi, R. 2022 AESOP4FOOD presentation on Living Labs.]<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-33-urban-agroecology/ Deh-Tor, C.M. . 2017 From Agriculture in the City to an Agroecological Urbanism: The transformative pathway of urban (political) agroecology, in: Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 33 – Urban Agroecology]<br />
<br />
Nasr, J.and M. Potteiger. Spaces, Systems, and Infrastructures: [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2212_download&client_id=main From Founding Visions to Emerging Approaches for the Productive Urban Landscape]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background reading===<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2143_download&client_id=main Deh-Tor, C.M. 2021. Food as an urban question, and the foundations of a reproductive, agroecological, urbanism, Chapter 1 in: Tornaghi, Ch. and Dehaene, M. 2021. Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions.]<br />
<br />
<br />
FAO. 2019. FAO framework for the Urban Food Agenda. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/ca3151en<br />
<br />
IDS & IPES-Food, 2022. [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/SmokeAndMirrors_BackgroundStudy.pdf Agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions: Competing framings of food system sustainability in global policy and funding spaces.]<br />
<br />
University of California, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. What Is a Community Food System? Community Food Systems. Defining Community Food Systems.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 2==<br />
<br />
FAO. (2018) City Region Food System Toolkit, Assessing and planning sustainable city region food systems, publication of FAO, RUAF and Wilfrid Laurier University. <br />
http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/toolkit/introduction/en/ - please read the introduction (page 1-3) and go over the questions and schemes of page nrs 133 until 144 (please note these are the pages in the pdf 138-149).<br />
<br />
Mette Vaarst, Arthur Getz Escudero, M. Jahi Chappell, Catherine Brinkley, Ravic Nijbroek, Nilson A.M. Arraes, Lise Andreasen, Andreas Gattinger, Gustavo Fonseca De Almeida, Deborah Bossio & Niels Halberg (2018) Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42:6, 686-711, DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1365321<br />
<br />
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. (2011) Community-Based Food System Assessment and Planning - Facilitator’s Guidebook, publication 3108-9029.- please read the introduction and then continue until page 18.<br />
<br />
Countryside Charity (CPRE – UK) [https://www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LocalZFoodZMappingZToolkitZSampleZPages.pdf https://www.cpre.org.uk/resources/mapping-local-food-webs-toolkit-2/] - just read the 7 pages that explain the toolkit.<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
Bortoletti, M., and J. Lomax. "Collaborative framework for food systems transformation." A multistakeholder pathway for sustainable food systems. UN environment. ISBN (2019): 978-92.<br />
<br />
Corcoran, M. P. 2021. Beyond ‘food apartheid’: Civil society and the politicization of hunger in New Haven, Connecticut. In: Urban Agric Region Food Syst. 2021;6:e20013. https://doi.org/10.1002/uar2.20013<br />
<br />
FAO (2019),TOOL FOR AGROECOLOGY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT AND GUIDELINES FOR APPLICATION. Chapter 3. <br />
<br />
Viljoen, A. and Bohn, K. (eds) (2014) Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing productive cities, Routledge: London and New York.<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A., Bohn, K. and Howe, J. (eds and co-authors) (2005) CPULs Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for sustainable cities, Oxford: Architectural Press.<br />
<br />
Wiskerke, Johannes SC. "On places lost and places regained: Reflections on the alternative food geography and sustainable regional development." International planning studies 14.4 (2009): 369-387.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 3==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2221_download&client_id=main UN Habitat, 2012: Visioning as a Participatory Planning Tool]<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/overview/crfs/en/ website of FAO on City Regions Food Systems]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Cohen and Ilieva (2021). Expanding the boundaries of food policy: The turn to equity in New York City. Food Policy, 103<br />
<br />
Alessandra Manganelli (2020): Realising local food policies: a comparison between Toronto and the Brussels-Capital Region’s stories through the lenses of reflexivity and colearning, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning<br />
<br />
Van de Griend, J., Duncan, J., & Wiskerke, J. (2019). How Civil Servants Frame Participation: Balancing Municipal Responsibility With Citizen Initiative in Ede’s Food Policy. Politics and Governance, 7(4), 59-67<br />
<br />
Jeroen J. L. Candel (2019): What’s on the menu? A global assessment of MUFPP signatory cities’ food strategies, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems<br />
<br />
Sonnino, R. Tegoni, C. De Cunto, A. , (2019) The challenge of systemic food change: Insights from cities, Cities, Vol. 85, pp. 110-116<br />
<br />
Landert, J.; Schader, C.; Moschitz, H.; Stolze, M. A Holistic Sustainability Assessment Method for Urban Food System Governance. Sustainability 2017, 9, 490<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-36-food-policy-councils/ RUAF, Urban Agriculture Magazin no. 36, Food Policy Councils.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 4==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2148_download&client_id=main Scoones et al. (2015) The politics of Green Transformation (Chapter 1). Oxon/New York: Routledge.] <br />
<br />
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtyo5UmdTrl1erONZSdllsbGZaidGBHh/view?usp=share_link David Holmgren’s text “Descent scenarios” chapter 4 of Future Scenario (2008)]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
[https://agriculture-architecture.net/ This is the online exhibition and resource curated by Sebastien Marot]. It consists of 42 panels arranged in 6 thematic lines of thinking. They compose an ideology, i.e. a jurisprudence of ideas, moments and figures which one might bear in mind when considering the nexus of agriculture and architecture, and its evolution.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 5==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=Reading_list&diff=675Reading list2024-02-27T09:50:33Z<p>Admin: </p>
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<div><br />
===Preparatory reading===<br />
====Compulsor====<br />
<br />
* FAO Report : [https://www.fao.org/3/CA2260EN/ca2260en.pdf "Integrating food into urban planning“] page 18 - 32.<br />
* IPES-food: From Plate to Planet: [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/PlatetoPlanet_SummaryEN.pdf How local governments are driving action on climate change through food summary]<br />
* [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/tippingthescales.pdf IPES-food: Who’s Tipping the Scales? Briefing note] <br />
<br />
====Background information====<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/3/cc7724en/online/cc7724en.html FAO THE STATE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2023: Revealing the true cost of food to transform agrifood systems site]<br />
<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLWRclarri0 Hungry Cities by Carolyn Steel video]<br />
<br />
If you want to get familiar with methods for collaborative goal setting, participatory learning, and research you can review the following.<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main The nominal group technique approach is a method for collaborative working on ideas and proposals]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main PALAR methodology - the method for participatory learning and research]<br />
<br />
Living Lab approach - how to work together with various groups of participants from communities, academia, civil society, and public authorities.<br />
<br />
Short powerpoint explaining the Nominal Group Technique, a method for collaborative [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main goal setting, defining values for groups, collaborative action planning.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 1==<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2125_download&client_id=main Tornaghi, Chiara. (2016). Urban Agriculture in the Food‐Disabling City: (Re)defining Urban Food Justice, Reimagining a Politics of Empowerment. Antipode. 49. 10.1111/anti.12291.]<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2132_download&client_id=main Short presentation on Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR)]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main Longer presentation on PALAR with criteria and activities.]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Triboi, R. 2022 AESOP4FOOD presentation on Living Labs.]<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-33-urban-agroecology/ Deh-Tor, C.M. . 2017 From Agriculture in the City to an Agroecological Urbanism: The transformative pathway of urban (political) agroecology, in: Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 33 – Urban Agroecology]<br />
<br />
Nasr, J.and M. Potteiger. Spaces, Systems, and Infrastructures: [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2212_download&client_id=main From Founding Visions to Emerging Approaches for the Productive Urban Landscape]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background reading===<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2143_download&client_id=main Deh-Tor, C.M. 2021. Food as an urban question, and the foundations of a reproductive, agroecological, urbanism, Chapter 1 in: Tornaghi, Ch. and Dehaene, M. 2021. Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions.]<br />
<br />
<br />
FAO. 2019. FAO framework for the Urban Food Agenda. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/ca3151en<br />
<br />
IDS & IPES-Food, 2022. [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/SmokeAndMirrors_BackgroundStudy.pdf Agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions: Competing framings of food system sustainability in global policy and funding spaces.]<br />
<br />
University of California, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. What Is a Community Food System? Community Food Systems. Defining Community Food Systems.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 2==<br />
<br />
FAO. (2018) City Region Food System Toolkit, Assessing and planning sustainable city region food systems, publication of FAO, RUAF and Wilfrid Laurier University. <br />
http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/toolkit/introduction/en/ - please read the introduction (page 1-3) and go over the questions and schemes of page nrs 133 until 144 (please note these are the pages in the pdf 138-149).<br />
<br />
Mette Vaarst, Arthur Getz Escudero, M. Jahi Chappell, Catherine Brinkley, Ravic Nijbroek, Nilson A.M. Arraes, Lise Andreasen, Andreas Gattinger, Gustavo Fonseca De Almeida, Deborah Bossio & Niels Halberg (2018) Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42:6, 686-711, DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1365321<br />
<br />
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. (2011) Community-Based Food System Assessment and Planning - Facilitator’s Guidebook, publication 3108-9029.- please read the introduction and then continue until page 18.<br />
<br />
Countryside Charity (CPRE – UK) [https://www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LocalZFoodZMappingZToolkitZSampleZPages.pdf https://www.cpre.org.uk/resources/mapping-local-food-webs-toolkit-2/] - just read the 7 pages that explain the toolkit.<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
Bortoletti, M., and J. Lomax. "Collaborative framework for food systems transformation." A multistakeholder pathway for sustainable food systems. UN environment. ISBN (2019): 978-92.<br />
<br />
Corcoran, M. P. 2021. Beyond ‘food apartheid’: Civil society and the politicization of hunger in New Haven, Connecticut. In: Urban Agric Region Food Syst. 2021;6:e20013. https://doi.org/10.1002/uar2.20013<br />
<br />
FAO (2019),TOOL FOR AGROECOLOGY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT AND GUIDELINES FOR APPLICATION. Chapter 3. <br />
<br />
Viljoen, A. and Bohn, K. (eds) (2014) Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing productive cities, Routledge: London and New York.<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A., Bohn, K. and Howe, J. (eds and co-authors) (2005) CPULs Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for sustainable cities, Oxford: Architectural Press.<br />
<br />
Wiskerke, Johannes SC. "On places lost and places regained: Reflections on the alternative food geography and sustainable regional development." International planning studies 14.4 (2009): 369-387.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 3==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2221_download&client_id=main UN Habitat, 2012: Visioning as a Participatory Planning Tool]<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/overview/crfs/en/ website of FAO on City Regions Food Systems]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Cohen and Ilieva (2021). Expanding the boundaries of food policy: The turn to equity in New York City. Food Policy, 103<br />
<br />
Alessandra Manganelli (2020): Realising local food policies: a comparison between Toronto and the Brussels-Capital Region’s stories through the lenses of reflexivity and colearning, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning<br />
<br />
Van de Griend, J., Duncan, J., & Wiskerke, J. (2019). How Civil Servants Frame Participation: Balancing Municipal Responsibility With Citizen Initiative in Ede’s Food Policy. Politics and Governance, 7(4), 59-67<br />
<br />
Jeroen J. L. Candel (2019): What’s on the menu? A global assessment of MUFPP signatory cities’ food strategies, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems<br />
<br />
Sonnino, R. Tegoni, C. De Cunto, A. , (2019) The challenge of systemic food change: Insights from cities, Cities, Vol. 85, pp. 110-116<br />
<br />
Landert, J.; Schader, C.; Moschitz, H.; Stolze, M. A Holistic Sustainability Assessment Method for Urban Food System Governance. Sustainability 2017, 9, 490<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-36-food-policy-councils/ RUAF, Urban Agriculture Magazin no. 36, Food Policy Councils.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 4==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2148_download&client_id=main Scoones et al. (2015) The politics of Green Transformation (Chapter 1). Oxon/New York: Routledge.] <br />
<br />
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtyo5UmdTrl1erONZSdllsbGZaidGBHh/view?usp=share_link David Holmgren’s text “Descent scenarios” chapter 4 of Future Scenario (2008)]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
[https://agriculture-architecture.net/ This is the online exhibition and resource curated by Sebastien Marot]. It consists of 42 panels arranged in 6 thematic lines of thinking. They compose an ideology, i.e. a jurisprudence of ideas, moments and figures which one might bear in mind when considering the nexus of agriculture and architecture, and its evolution.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 5==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=Reading_list&diff=674Reading list2024-02-27T09:46:07Z<p>Admin: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
===Preparatory reading===<br />
====Compulsor====<br />
<br />
* FAO Report : [https://www.fao.org/3/CA2260EN/ca2260en.pdf "Integrating food into urban planning“] page 18 - 32.<br />
* IPES-food: From Plate to Planet: [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/PlatetoPlanet_SummaryEN.pdf How local governments are driving action on climate change through food summary]<br />
* [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/tippingthescales.pdf IPES-food: Who’s Tipping the Scales? Briefing note] <br />
<br />
====Background information====<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/3/cc7724en/online/cc7724en.html FAO THE STATE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2023: Revealing the true cost of food to transform agrifood systems site]<br />
<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLWRclarri0 Hungry Cities by Carolyn Steel video]<br />
<br />
If you want to get familiar with methods for collaborative goal setting, participatory learning, and research you can review the following.<br />
<br />
The nominal group technique approach is a method for collaborative working on ideas and proposals<br />
PALAR methodology - the method for participatory learning and research<br />
Living Lab approach - how to work together with various groups of participants from communities, academia, civil society, and public authorities.<br />
<br />
Short powerpoint explaining the Nominal Group Technique, a method for collaborative [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2220_download&client_id=main goal setting, defining values for groups, collaborative action planning.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 1==<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2125_download&client_id=main Tornaghi, Chiara. (2016). Urban Agriculture in the Food‐Disabling City: (Re)defining Urban Food Justice, Reimagining a Politics of Empowerment. Antipode. 49. 10.1111/anti.12291.]<br />
<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2132_download&client_id=main Short presentation on Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR)]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2131_download&client_id=main Longer presentation on PALAR with criteria and activities.]<br />
<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2133_download&client_id=main Triboi, R. 2022 AESOP4FOOD presentation on Living Labs.]<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-33-urban-agroecology/ Deh-Tor, C.M. . 2017 From Agriculture in the City to an Agroecological Urbanism: The transformative pathway of urban (political) agroecology, in: Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 33 – Urban Agroecology]<br />
<br />
Nasr, J.and M. Potteiger. Spaces, Systems, and Infrastructures: [https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2212_download&client_id=main From Founding Visions to Emerging Approaches for the Productive Urban Landscape]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background reading===<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2143_download&client_id=main Deh-Tor, C.M. 2021. Food as an urban question, and the foundations of a reproductive, agroecological, urbanism, Chapter 1 in: Tornaghi, Ch. and Dehaene, M. 2021. Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions.]<br />
<br />
<br />
FAO. 2019. FAO framework for the Urban Food Agenda. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/ca3151en<br />
<br />
IDS & IPES-Food, 2022. [https://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/SmokeAndMirrors_BackgroundStudy.pdf Agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions: Competing framings of food system sustainability in global policy and funding spaces.]<br />
<br />
University of California, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. What Is a Community Food System? Community Food Systems. Defining Community Food Systems.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 2==<br />
<br />
FAO. (2018) City Region Food System Toolkit, Assessing and planning sustainable city region food systems, publication of FAO, RUAF and Wilfrid Laurier University. <br />
http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/toolkit/introduction/en/ - please read the introduction (page 1-3) and go over the questions and schemes of page nrs 133 until 144 (please note these are the pages in the pdf 138-149).<br />
<br />
Mette Vaarst, Arthur Getz Escudero, M. Jahi Chappell, Catherine Brinkley, Ravic Nijbroek, Nilson A.M. Arraes, Lise Andreasen, Andreas Gattinger, Gustavo Fonseca De Almeida, Deborah Bossio & Niels Halberg (2018) Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42:6, 686-711, DOI: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1365321<br />
<br />
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. (2011) Community-Based Food System Assessment and Planning - Facilitator’s Guidebook, publication 3108-9029.- please read the introduction and then continue until page 18.<br />
<br />
Countryside Charity (CPRE – UK) [https://www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LocalZFoodZMappingZToolkitZSampleZPages.pdf https://www.cpre.org.uk/resources/mapping-local-food-webs-toolkit-2/] - just read the 7 pages that explain the toolkit.<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
Bortoletti, M., and J. Lomax. "Collaborative framework for food systems transformation." A multistakeholder pathway for sustainable food systems. UN environment. ISBN (2019): 978-92.<br />
<br />
Corcoran, M. P. 2021. Beyond ‘food apartheid’: Civil society and the politicization of hunger in New Haven, Connecticut. In: Urban Agric Region Food Syst. 2021;6:e20013. https://doi.org/10.1002/uar2.20013<br />
<br />
FAO (2019),TOOL FOR AGROECOLOGY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT AND GUIDELINES FOR APPLICATION. Chapter 3. <br />
<br />
Viljoen, A. and Bohn, K. (eds) (2014) Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing productive cities, Routledge: London and New York.<br />
<br />
Viljoen, A., Bohn, K. and Howe, J. (eds and co-authors) (2005) CPULs Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for sustainable cities, Oxford: Architectural Press.<br />
<br />
Wiskerke, Johannes SC. "On places lost and places regained: Reflections on the alternative food geography and sustainable regional development." International planning studies 14.4 (2009): 369-387.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 3==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2221_download&client_id=main UN Habitat, 2012: Visioning as a Participatory Planning Tool]<br />
<br />
[https://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/overview/crfs/en/ website of FAO on City Regions Food Systems]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
Cohen and Ilieva (2021). Expanding the boundaries of food policy: The turn to equity in New York City. Food Policy, 103<br />
<br />
Alessandra Manganelli (2020): Realising local food policies: a comparison between Toronto and the Brussels-Capital Region’s stories through the lenses of reflexivity and colearning, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning<br />
<br />
Van de Griend, J., Duncan, J., & Wiskerke, J. (2019). How Civil Servants Frame Participation: Balancing Municipal Responsibility With Citizen Initiative in Ede’s Food Policy. Politics and Governance, 7(4), 59-67<br />
<br />
Jeroen J. L. Candel (2019): What’s on the menu? A global assessment of MUFPP signatory cities’ food strategies, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems<br />
<br />
Sonnino, R. Tegoni, C. De Cunto, A. , (2019) The challenge of systemic food change: Insights from cities, Cities, Vol. 85, pp. 110-116<br />
<br />
Landert, J.; Schader, C.; Moschitz, H.; Stolze, M. A Holistic Sustainability Assessment Method for Urban Food System Governance. Sustainability 2017, 9, 490<br />
<br />
[https://ruaf.org/document/urban-agriculture-magazine-no-36-food-policy-councils/ RUAF, Urban Agriculture Magazin no. 36, Food Policy Councils.]<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 4==<br />
[https://lnicollab.landscape-portal.org/goto.php?target=file_2148_download&client_id=main Scoones et al. (2015) The politics of Green Transformation (Chapter 1). Oxon/New York: Routledge.] <br />
<br />
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtyo5UmdTrl1erONZSdllsbGZaidGBHh/view?usp=share_link David Holmgren’s text “Descent scenarios” chapter 4 of Future Scenario (2008)]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===<br />
<br />
[https://agriculture-architecture.net/ This is the online exhibition and resource curated by Sebastien Marot]. It consists of 42 panels arranged in 6 thematic lines of thinking. They compose an ideology, i.e. a jurisprudence of ideas, moments and figures which one might bear in mind when considering the nexus of agriculture and architecture, and its evolution.<br />
<br />
==Reading for phase 5==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Background reading ===</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=Living_labs_and_research_questions_2024&diff=673Living labs and research questions 20242024-02-23T09:04:35Z<p>Admin: /* A Living Lab in Tartu, Estonia */</p>
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=Living Labs in development=<br />
The presented living lab subjects and questions are in development. If you participate in assignment mode, you can also define your own research question or the aim of your assignment. You need to send that in the survey you received before February 16, 2024. After that date, it is only possible to participate in the course in lecture mode.<br />
<br />
<br />
= Montpellier « Changes in a neighbourhood's* food environment with the arrival of a new tramway line » Living Lab /France=<br />
*Neighbourhood under definition, in partnership with INRAE and Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole<br />
<br />
==Context==<br />
Food environments can be defined as the “physical, economic, political and socio-cultural context in which consumers engage with the food system to make their decisions about acquiring, preparing and consuming food”.<br />
<br />
In contrast to the ‘consumer choice model’ (founded on the idea that awareness raising and education about better food choices will make people change their food behaviour), the ‘food environment approach’ recognises that the choices we make about food and the impacts they have are, to a significant degree, shaped by the contexts within which they are made. Following from that, it recognises that the most effective and equitable way to change food behaviours is to change the structural factors that drive food choice, among which are aspects of the built environment. As they affect access to food entry points, including the distance to food outlets, and the availability of physical infrastructures, such as public transport networks, etc.<br />
<br />
Local players can therefore act on the environment to encourage more sustainable and healthier eating habits, by improving accessibility to the entire food offer: shops, restaurants, markets, and points of sale.<br />
Montpellier's tramway network already comprises 4 lines. A 5th line, 20 km long, is currently under construction and will cross the city and serve the neighbourhood cities of Greater Montpellier by 2025. With this 5th line, the Metropole offers a new North/South-West diagonal to its network, linking its transport network even more finely and extensively.<br />
<br />
Urban development projects and other public policies (linked to transport or the commercial offer, for example) often modify food landscapes. Their impact on household food supply practices is, however, poorly understood, and may vary according to the social, demographic, and economic characteristics of populations and territories. To better understand these spatio-temporal dynamics, the first step is to describe and characterize food landscapes (or environments) and their evolution.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for local students==<br />
In a specific neighborhood of the Montpellier metropolitan area, the idea is to carry out a field survey to determine a diagnosis of food environments and how they are evolving: <br />
* Define the urban and social characteristics of the area in question<br />
* Mapping current food landscapes: the neighborhood food offer<br />
* Outlook on the evolution of these food landscapes with the arrival of the 5th tramway line<br />
* Recommendations for new developments around the tramway line<br />
This survey is part of a larger project, on a metropolitan scale, being carried out by a research team and players in Montpellier's Agroecological and Food Policy (Politique Agroécologique et Alimentaire).<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote students==<br />
* Review of literature and case studies on the impact of transport infrastructure projects on the evolution of food environments<br />
* Depending on the social and urban characteristics of the selected neighborhood: what ways can be found to improve its food environments?<br />
<br />
Mastering French to a certain extent is a preference since much of the references and stakeholder responses will be in French, a comparative case study of other countries can of course be carried out in English.<br />
<br />
=Warsaw “MOST Urban Farm” Living Lab -Poland=<br />
==Production and collaboration with local farmers==<br />
Short video presentation, Short pdf description 2023-01_MOST_LL_en, Extended description<br />
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FZvY1t1ptUOfIXTSJ8XrFWJecCt6WlrU/view?usp=sharing<br />
<br />
The Warsaw Urban Farm initiative was born out of the need to prepare the city for the upcoming effects of the environmental and food crises. Our goal is to create a local center for agro-ecological education and food production, and to develop and network future leaders in the field of sustainable food planning to contribute locally to food security and a healthier environment.<br />
To strengthen the city's resilience, we want to establish Warsaw's first farm (MOST), which will also be an incubator for further initiatives in the area of the sustainable food system of Warsaw and surrounding suburban and rural areas.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for the local students== <br />
* In addition to finances, what are the potential benefits of establishing the MOST farm in the selected location?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; analysis of spatial planning documents; field trip; spatial analysis; identifying key partners and stakeholders; identifying main problems and challenges faced by farmers operating in the selected area; SWOT analysis for the Warsaw agriculture of the upper Vistula)<br />
* What should be an economic model of the MOST farm?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trip; identifying main problems and challenges faced by farmers operating in the selected area; SWOT analysis for the Warsaw agriculture of the upper Vistula, developing an economic model )<br />
* Who are the stakeholders (municipality, neighbor community, involved institutions, and farmers) and what are their needs and influence?<br />
(methods: field trip; analysis of land ownership; identifying key partners and stakeholders; mapping all actors and their needs and power; define potential partnerships and alliances)<br />
* What is the attitude of local farmers towards urban agriculture initiatives, particularly MOST?<br />
(methods: field trip; mapping local farmers; interviews and questionnaires; designing a food hub)<br />
* What edible plants are the best to cultivate in MOST farm? Considering climate factors and socio-economic factors (production feasibility, retail). <br />
(methods: literature review; field trip; consultation with an expert)<br />
* What is the Warsaw municipality's attitude toward biodiversity? Is it only a cost of maintaining vacant lands or a food production opportunity?<br />
(methods: analysis of Municipality planning documents; interviews and questionnaires)<br />
* What are the regional rituals associated with agriculture and how to transfer them to an urban context?<br />
(methods: literature review; field trip; mapping local farmers; interviews and questionnaires; developing a proposal for an urban harvest celebration)<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for the remote students==<br />
* What should the coop urban farm include in its programme? What are the potential benefits (social, economic, environmental, others), and how to increase them?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trips)<br />
* What are the models of coop urban farms around the world? (Economic models, inner organization structures).<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trips)<br />
* What are the city's policies towards vacant lands considering its biodiversity and food production opportunities?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; analysis of Municipality planning documents; interviews and questionnaires)<br />
<br />
=Ghent "Agroecological Urbanism Future Heritage" Living Lab - Belgium=<br />
Ghent University in collaboration with De Stadsacademie*, STA.M, ILVO<br />
De Stadsacademie is a collaboratorium dedicated to transdisciplinary research and teaching on complex and urgent sustainability challenges faced by the city and the University of Ghent. De Stadsacademie works on several ‘trajectories’ that define the thematic scope of its work over a series of years.<br />
<br />
==Starting with the Kitchen. Rethinking neighbourhood food systems from an agroecological perspective==<br />
To rethink and transform urban local food systems, the kitchen is a good place to start. Even in the highly commodified urban food system of a city like Ghent, the kitchen entertains a strong relation of proximity to the places of eating. That is true for the individual kitchens at home but is true for collective kitchen infrastructure. The kitchen is not only the place where food is prepared, It is also a place in which logic of consumption and production meet. This also makes the kitchen a place of potential solidarity between producers and consumers.<br />
In this year’s working cycle of the Living Lab, we will explore the agroecological transformation of neighbourhood food systems through the perspective of the community kitchen in the Bloemekenswijk in Ghent. While the Bloemekenswijk is historically part of the periphery of Ghent, it is today subject to new dynamics of urbanization that reposition the neighbourhood within the urban agglomeration and set up a new dialogue between local and supra-local relations. This gives an opportunity to think about the role of neighbourhood infrastructure in general and food infrastructure in particular. The neighbourhood contains an array of existing food initiatives that can be the starting point of an agroecological transformation of the food system. The focus will be in particular on the Bloemekenswijk, however, will include the documentation of initiatives in other neighbourhoods as well.<br />
<br />
We will be exploring different transformative pathways together with actors within the neighbourhood.<br />
* the possible connection of neighbourhood initiatives to farmland owned by the Public Center for Social Welfare (OCMW)<br />
* the possible coproduction between the existing social economy cluster (VZW Ateljee & Balenmagazijn) with social economy initiatives active in food production (De Loods in Aalst)<br />
* the possible creation of a food hub, supplying food to existing neighbourhood restaurants, institutional canteens, school kitchens, etc.<br />
* the transformation of the existing market (Van Beverenplein) as a public site of local food supply in co-creation with neighbourhood food initiatives<br />
* the reactivation of the bakery on the psychiatric campus Dr. Guislain<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote student==<br />
Students can choose between track A (literature review) or B (case study)<br />
===A. Literature review on neighborhood food systems and what makes them transformative===<br />
* What are the main drivers behind the creation of neighborhood food systems?<br />
* How can place-based initiatives be used to define solidarities that don’t remain limited to the local (and move beyond the local trap (Purcell 2006))?<br />
* How do local initiatives cope with the tension between ecological and social goals?<br />
* How can neighbourhood infrastructure be retooled to link up with local producers? What are the organizational and infrastructural implications of relying on direct supply?<br />
* How dependent are food support initiatives on surplus food and how do they seek to break that dependency?<br />
<br />
===B. Documentation, discussion of existing practices connecting neighbourhood food networks and infrastructures to local suppliers, and questions of access to land?===<br />
Examples around public catering within public institutes (schools, hospitals, care facilities…) that make a direct connection between public food provisioning, agroecological farmers, and land management.<br />
Examples of neighbourhood-based initiatives around food support and place-based solidarity in connection with agroecological farmers. We are particularly interested in community kitchen initiatives building a food sovereignty agenda together with agroecological producers.<br />
<br />
==The General Context of the Ghent Living Lab and Earlier Work==<br />
The urban food policy of the City of Ghent, Gent en Garde, has been the subject of international attention including several prestigious prizes. At the same time, the systematic sale of public farmland in the peri-urban fringe of Ghent has alienated new and traditional farmers who are upset about the systematic loss of farmland. Farmers are rapidly disappearing from the peri-urban fringe, and new farmers face great difficulty in establishing themselves. <br />
Within the context of De Stadsacademie* civil society actors, farmers, urban civil servants, students and researchers have been engaged in the development of alternative policies regarding publicly owned farmland, and agricultural heritage more generally. The land currently being sold off by the city is the fruit of historical investment in urban agricultural heritage that has been handed down over several generations and is part of the permanent improvements (infrastructure, public space, heritage landscapes, drainage systems, etc.) that made farming possible.<br />
Contemporary urban constituencies seem to care little for the future of this publicly owned farmland. In the political debate on the sale of public land urban social goals are played against ecological concerns and the protection of local farming activities. The land is presented as ‘fragmented’ and off little public interest, and sold to finance the development of residential care facilities for the elderly. The campaign against the sale of public farmland has led to a moratorium on further sales in the neighbouring municipalities of Ghent. in the meantime, the city is preparing a vision on Agricultural land use in the city and the wider region. Within De Stadsacademie we want to enter into a dialogue with parties that could help to articulate a shared agenda regarding the way in which the public ownership of farmland could be leveraged to accelerate an agroecological food transition. This will happen in the framework of an agroecological urbanism (www.agroecologicalurbanism.org), which is a way of urbanizing that actively supports the care for soils and the growing of food in an equitable and ecologically sustainable way. We will try to imagine new forms of urban infrastructure and future heritage that contribute to the local support of agroecological farmers and re-inscribe the farming activities within a new urban geography of farming.<br />
Last year we worked within the living lab on various fronts, exploring possible connections between local food policy initiatives and public land management. The results of last year’s local work in the living lab were documented in a series of video portraits: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5xVUeu3UV65ME7uF9RoRoNefUcVm3ba<br />
In July 2023 ‘De Stadacademie’ hosted the 2nd AESOP4FOOD Intensive Programme. A detailed programme of the IP can be found here: Programme IP Ghent - Future Heritage_Agroecological Urbanism<br />
This year we want to narrow the scope of the exercise and go deeper in one of the lines of investigation namely that of the community kitchen and the role of neighbourhood food infrastructure.<br />
part of this hypothesis has been explored in a master thesis that was produced in the context of ‘De Stadsacademie’. Master thesis Neighborfood<br />
<br />
=Madrid Agroecologico Living Lab - Spain=<br />
<br />
==Circular Economy in Food Retail==<br />
It is easier to imagine an apple being integrated into a circular system than most of the consumer goods that surround us. It might be easier, but we are still far away from achieving circular loops in the food sector. The reasons are multiple, some of them are related to the global chains in which our current food system is embedded. We propose a Living Lab based on the assumption that with shorter food chains and more direct relationships between production and consumption, a shift into a circularity paradigm would be more feasible. <br />
The Living Lab Is conceived as a space for the co-generation of applied knowledge together with the cooperative supermarket LA OSA and with the support of the [https://ciecmadrid.es International Center for Circular Economy (CIEC) of the Municipality of Madrid]. The main goal is to boost mechanisms of circular economy, to reduce both packaging and food waste, but also to enhance the recovery and reuse of packaging. The Living Lab responds to an interest expressed by the cooperative and its members, some of whom tried to set up a working group on these matters.<br />
We assume that short food supply chains are better positioned to adopt circularity, and the living lab should help the Cooperative Supermarket to have a diagnosis of the situation and to envision ways to transform and improve it, with the support of the CIEC which in turn, provide coaching and support to create innovative ecosystems.<br />
<br />
==Research questions== <br />
* Is the cooperative supermarket better positioned to reduce the use of plastics in the commercialization of food?<br />
* What has been the impact of the measures adopted to reduce food waste and packaging waste?<br />
* What are the bottlenecks of a transition into a (close to) zero plastic and zero waste model? For which part of the food consumer goods would that be easier?<br />
* Do agroecological projects and short supply chains perform better in terms of circularity? What are their potentials to achieve circularity and how can they be enhanced?<br />
* What are the implications in terms of spatial requirements and organizational operations associated with a shorter change embedded in circularity?<br />
<br />
==Research questions for remote students==<br />
<br />
* What are examples of good practices to enhance circular loops in the food chain, focussing on the production-distribution linkages?<br />
* Which are the key factors to replicate practices of regenerative food production embedded in closed loops?<br />
<br />
= A Living Lab for building a Local Food Strategy for the Bucharest District 6 - Romania=<br />
<br />
==Introduction== <br />
Sector 6 of Bucharest is an administrative unit with diverse quarters like Crângași, Drumul Taberei, Ghencea, Giulești, Militari, and Regie. The sector covers 38 square kilometers, housing a population of 325,759 as of December 2021. It aims to become a smart and green city, with strategic plans for urban development. For more detailed information, you can visit the Wikipedia page on Sector 6 of Bucharest.<br />
[[File:Sector 6.png|thumb|right]]<br />
Bucharest's District 6 is starting a sustainable food strategy aimed at enhancing local production, decreasing environmental impacts, and fortifying community connections. This initiative proposes the creation of a living lab—a collaborative environment where citizens, researchers, policymakers, and businesses unite to tackle complex challenges within the local food system. <br />
<br />
Expected Outcomes:<br />
* A detailed map of District 6's food ecosystem, with key players and their interactions.<br />
* Defining general objectives aligning with community needs and sustainability ambitions.<br />
* A shared vision for District 6's future food system, leading to a strategic plan and scalable pilot projects.<br />
[[File:Sector6detail.png|thumb|right]]<br />
<br />
==Objectives for local students==<br />
* Mapping the Local Food System: To catalog all participants in District 6's food system, including producers, distributors, retailers, consumers, and waste handlers, thereby identifying product flows, inefficiencies, and opportunities for sustainability.<br />
* Establishing General Objectives: To set comprehensive goals like reducing food transportation distances, improving food security, advocating for local and seasonal foods, and cutting down food waste.<br />
* Developing a Vision: To formulate a long-term outlook for District 6’s food system that embodies sustainability, community welfare, and economic health.<br />
* Creating a Strategy: To devise an actionable plan that includes innovative practices such as urban agriculture, food sharing initiatives, and circular economy principles, detailing both immediate and future steps, potential hurdles, and success indicators.<br />
<br />
==Research questions for remote students==<br />
# Integration: How can District 6's food strategy integrate with the broader city-region for mutual sustainability benefits?<br />
# Formation: What are the necessary steps and key players for establishing an effective local food council at the district level?<br />
# Objectives: In a post-socialist capital's context such as District 6, what are the primary goals for a local food strategy?<br />
# Engagement: What are the most effective methods for engaging residents in the local food system strategy?<br />
[[File:Sector6market.png|thumb]]<br />
<br />
=A Living Lab in Tartu -Estonia=<br />
Tartu (cultural capital of Europe 2024) is the second biggest city in Estonia and is located in the southeast part of the country. Agriculture is an important aspect of the county's development.<br />
<br />
This theme will focus on the expanding interest in Estonia in organic food production within a framework of sustainable farming, together with the Tartu County Food Strategy 2022-2030. The idea is to develop the Agricultural Park concept in the urban fringe of Tartu, which would serve as a place of organic production, agricultural innovation, education, economy, and bioeconomy, but would be also a potential place for recreation and act as a connector people and the city green and blue infrastructure. Two different student groups will focus on practical work, land use analysis, site-specific interventions, and working with different stakeholders, including a marginalised group of people from a care setting. De-institutionalised care is a recent move in Estonia, with people being removed from large care home settings to smaller, cosier groups in the community supported by care workers. However, they are not well integrated into the community, and work opportunities are low.<br />
<br />
===Urban food hub/living lab in Tartu===<br />
According to the Tartu County Food Strategy 2022-2030, Tartu county in Estonia is well known for its various public or private initiatives regarding food production at different scales. It is also known for its research on organic food, collaboration networks, and multiple food industry businesses. However, there is a lack of a common and consistent food strategy for the region. The authors of the report aim not only to consider organic farming principles but also to shorten product cycles in accordance with the ‘farm to table’ principle; localising production; strengthening networking activities; cooperating with local research and development units; and creating of a common brand, that would bring recognition to the county’s products. These aims should be done within EU frameworks in a socially, economically, culturally, and ecologically sustainable way, taking into consideration site-specific conditions and the complicated past of the Baltic countries and land reforms connected to it (such as the soviet era collectivisation process, re-establishing of the family farms as well as commercial agricultural farms and its impact on current approaches to agriculture). Following on from that, the aim is to understand the landscape spatial planning and design implications of the above-mentioned strategy. Understanding of local needs and conditions, and the values that local inhabitants hold on in the environment, culture, and economy. Participants will choose to work on the area of Mahekeskus (Organic Farming Centre) of the Estonian University of Life Sciences or find additional suitable spaces or spatial approaches for the topic.<br />
<br />
Local challenge: to understand the potential of Tartu city and county to become a food hub, including social, economic, cultural and ecological spatial challenges, namely, creating a joint food collaboration network in its social, cultural, and spatial dimensions. Promotion and marketing of locally produced food. Integrating people in care into the community through healthy activities or work based in the agricultural park.<br />
<br />
The students of the comprehensive planning course are collecting and preparing information to analyse the possibilities for creating a Food Hub close to Tartu town at and around the sustainable farming centre of the Estonian University of Life Sciences. They are aiming to collect existing legal land use data and analyse land use possibilities and limitations in them. This aims to result in initiating and discussing some ideas for the content of the Food Hub together with the Living Lab, that will be developed. It will have a follow-up in the Landscape Forum Tartu 2024 workshop on Foodscapes. The plan is to develop a further research project application for the Food Hub.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for local students==<br />
# What can be learned from the history regarding agriculture and urban agriculture in the Tartu region?<br />
# What are current municipal food and agricultural policies and how they are connected with spatial planning and management documents? How do these documents influence or suggest the potential to develop (peri-)urban agriculture in Tartu?<br />
# What are the ownership conditions of farmland around and within Tartu? What are different agricultural land-use types and practices (formal and informal)?<br />
# What are the social and cultural conditions and potentials to develop a (peri-)urban food hub or agricultural park in Tartu?<br />
# Who are the existing and potential stakeholders? What are their characteristics?<br />
# What is the potential for inclusion for those in care in the community placements <br />
<br />
Summary of analysis in the form of land-use and strategic limitations and possibilities, report of stakeholder mapping and/or interviews/questionnaires as well as an overview of initial ideas about food hub or landscape park based on Mahekeskus and other areas.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote students==<br />
# What is the current situation of urban food production in an EU country, comparing the Baltic countries with other areas? What influences it?<br />
# How can urban agriculture in small cities such as Tartu be strategically planned and promoted?<br />
Summary of analysis in the form of SWOT analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, as well as stakeholder mapping and/or interviews/questionnaires.<br />
<br />
==Spatial planning and design strategy across both student groups==<br />
# What are the existing spatial solutions unifying and enhancing food production in urban and peri-urban areas as well as connection with rural areas (such as the concept of agricultural parks).<br />
# What solutions can be adapted or implemented in Tartu county? How and why?<br />
# How can these areas be governed and managed in a sustainable, inclusive, and multifunctional way?<br />
# How can the interests of all defined stakeholders be strategically connected?<br />
<br />
Summary in the form of the strategic plan description and/or drawings/maps/plans</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=Living_labs_and_research_questions_2024&diff=672Living labs and research questions 20242024-02-23T09:04:13Z<p>Admin: /* A Living Lab for building a Local Food Strategy for the Bucharest District 6 */</p>
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=Living Labs in development=<br />
The presented living lab subjects and questions are in development. If you participate in assignment mode, you can also define your own research question or the aim of your assignment. You need to send that in the survey you received before February 16, 2024. After that date, it is only possible to participate in the course in lecture mode.<br />
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<br />
= Montpellier « Changes in a neighbourhood's* food environment with the arrival of a new tramway line » Living Lab /France=<br />
*Neighbourhood under definition, in partnership with INRAE and Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole<br />
<br />
==Context==<br />
Food environments can be defined as the “physical, economic, political and socio-cultural context in which consumers engage with the food system to make their decisions about acquiring, preparing and consuming food”.<br />
<br />
In contrast to the ‘consumer choice model’ (founded on the idea that awareness raising and education about better food choices will make people change their food behaviour), the ‘food environment approach’ recognises that the choices we make about food and the impacts they have are, to a significant degree, shaped by the contexts within which they are made. Following from that, it recognises that the most effective and equitable way to change food behaviours is to change the structural factors that drive food choice, among which are aspects of the built environment. As they affect access to food entry points, including the distance to food outlets, and the availability of physical infrastructures, such as public transport networks, etc.<br />
<br />
Local players can therefore act on the environment to encourage more sustainable and healthier eating habits, by improving accessibility to the entire food offer: shops, restaurants, markets, and points of sale.<br />
Montpellier's tramway network already comprises 4 lines. A 5th line, 20 km long, is currently under construction and will cross the city and serve the neighbourhood cities of Greater Montpellier by 2025. With this 5th line, the Metropole offers a new North/South-West diagonal to its network, linking its transport network even more finely and extensively.<br />
<br />
Urban development projects and other public policies (linked to transport or the commercial offer, for example) often modify food landscapes. Their impact on household food supply practices is, however, poorly understood, and may vary according to the social, demographic, and economic characteristics of populations and territories. To better understand these spatio-temporal dynamics, the first step is to describe and characterize food landscapes (or environments) and their evolution.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for local students==<br />
In a specific neighborhood of the Montpellier metropolitan area, the idea is to carry out a field survey to determine a diagnosis of food environments and how they are evolving: <br />
* Define the urban and social characteristics of the area in question<br />
* Mapping current food landscapes: the neighborhood food offer<br />
* Outlook on the evolution of these food landscapes with the arrival of the 5th tramway line<br />
* Recommendations for new developments around the tramway line<br />
This survey is part of a larger project, on a metropolitan scale, being carried out by a research team and players in Montpellier's Agroecological and Food Policy (Politique Agroécologique et Alimentaire).<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote students==<br />
* Review of literature and case studies on the impact of transport infrastructure projects on the evolution of food environments<br />
* Depending on the social and urban characteristics of the selected neighborhood: what ways can be found to improve its food environments?<br />
<br />
Mastering French to a certain extent is a preference since much of the references and stakeholder responses will be in French, a comparative case study of other countries can of course be carried out in English.<br />
<br />
=Warsaw “MOST Urban Farm” Living Lab -Poland=<br />
==Production and collaboration with local farmers==<br />
Short video presentation, Short pdf description 2023-01_MOST_LL_en, Extended description<br />
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FZvY1t1ptUOfIXTSJ8XrFWJecCt6WlrU/view?usp=sharing<br />
<br />
The Warsaw Urban Farm initiative was born out of the need to prepare the city for the upcoming effects of the environmental and food crises. Our goal is to create a local center for agro-ecological education and food production, and to develop and network future leaders in the field of sustainable food planning to contribute locally to food security and a healthier environment.<br />
To strengthen the city's resilience, we want to establish Warsaw's first farm (MOST), which will also be an incubator for further initiatives in the area of the sustainable food system of Warsaw and surrounding suburban and rural areas.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for the local students== <br />
* In addition to finances, what are the potential benefits of establishing the MOST farm in the selected location?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; analysis of spatial planning documents; field trip; spatial analysis; identifying key partners and stakeholders; identifying main problems and challenges faced by farmers operating in the selected area; SWOT analysis for the Warsaw agriculture of the upper Vistula)<br />
* What should be an economic model of the MOST farm?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trip; identifying main problems and challenges faced by farmers operating in the selected area; SWOT analysis for the Warsaw agriculture of the upper Vistula, developing an economic model )<br />
* Who are the stakeholders (municipality, neighbor community, involved institutions, and farmers) and what are their needs and influence?<br />
(methods: field trip; analysis of land ownership; identifying key partners and stakeholders; mapping all actors and their needs and power; define potential partnerships and alliances)<br />
* What is the attitude of local farmers towards urban agriculture initiatives, particularly MOST?<br />
(methods: field trip; mapping local farmers; interviews and questionnaires; designing a food hub)<br />
* What edible plants are the best to cultivate in MOST farm? Considering climate factors and socio-economic factors (production feasibility, retail). <br />
(methods: literature review; field trip; consultation with an expert)<br />
* What is the Warsaw municipality's attitude toward biodiversity? Is it only a cost of maintaining vacant lands or a food production opportunity?<br />
(methods: analysis of Municipality planning documents; interviews and questionnaires)<br />
* What are the regional rituals associated with agriculture and how to transfer them to an urban context?<br />
(methods: literature review; field trip; mapping local farmers; interviews and questionnaires; developing a proposal for an urban harvest celebration)<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for the remote students==<br />
* What should the coop urban farm include in its programme? What are the potential benefits (social, economic, environmental, others), and how to increase them?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trips)<br />
* What are the models of coop urban farms around the world? (Economic models, inner organization structures).<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trips)<br />
* What are the city's policies towards vacant lands considering its biodiversity and food production opportunities?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; analysis of Municipality planning documents; interviews and questionnaires)<br />
<br />
=Ghent "Agroecological Urbanism Future Heritage" Living Lab - Belgium=<br />
Ghent University in collaboration with De Stadsacademie*, STA.M, ILVO<br />
De Stadsacademie is a collaboratorium dedicated to transdisciplinary research and teaching on complex and urgent sustainability challenges faced by the city and the University of Ghent. De Stadsacademie works on several ‘trajectories’ that define the thematic scope of its work over a series of years.<br />
<br />
==Starting with the Kitchen. Rethinking neighbourhood food systems from an agroecological perspective==<br />
To rethink and transform urban local food systems, the kitchen is a good place to start. Even in the highly commodified urban food system of a city like Ghent, the kitchen entertains a strong relation of proximity to the places of eating. That is true for the individual kitchens at home but is true for collective kitchen infrastructure. The kitchen is not only the place where food is prepared, It is also a place in which logic of consumption and production meet. This also makes the kitchen a place of potential solidarity between producers and consumers.<br />
In this year’s working cycle of the Living Lab, we will explore the agroecological transformation of neighbourhood food systems through the perspective of the community kitchen in the Bloemekenswijk in Ghent. While the Bloemekenswijk is historically part of the periphery of Ghent, it is today subject to new dynamics of urbanization that reposition the neighbourhood within the urban agglomeration and set up a new dialogue between local and supra-local relations. This gives an opportunity to think about the role of neighbourhood infrastructure in general and food infrastructure in particular. The neighbourhood contains an array of existing food initiatives that can be the starting point of an agroecological transformation of the food system. The focus will be in particular on the Bloemekenswijk, however, will include the documentation of initiatives in other neighbourhoods as well.<br />
<br />
We will be exploring different transformative pathways together with actors within the neighbourhood.<br />
* the possible connection of neighbourhood initiatives to farmland owned by the Public Center for Social Welfare (OCMW)<br />
* the possible coproduction between the existing social economy cluster (VZW Ateljee & Balenmagazijn) with social economy initiatives active in food production (De Loods in Aalst)<br />
* the possible creation of a food hub, supplying food to existing neighbourhood restaurants, institutional canteens, school kitchens, etc.<br />
* the transformation of the existing market (Van Beverenplein) as a public site of local food supply in co-creation with neighbourhood food initiatives<br />
* the reactivation of the bakery on the psychiatric campus Dr. Guislain<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote student==<br />
Students can choose between track A (literature review) or B (case study)<br />
===A. Literature review on neighborhood food systems and what makes them transformative===<br />
* What are the main drivers behind the creation of neighborhood food systems?<br />
* How can place-based initiatives be used to define solidarities that don’t remain limited to the local (and move beyond the local trap (Purcell 2006))?<br />
* How do local initiatives cope with the tension between ecological and social goals?<br />
* How can neighbourhood infrastructure be retooled to link up with local producers? What are the organizational and infrastructural implications of relying on direct supply?<br />
* How dependent are food support initiatives on surplus food and how do they seek to break that dependency?<br />
<br />
===B. Documentation, discussion of existing practices connecting neighbourhood food networks and infrastructures to local suppliers, and questions of access to land?===<br />
Examples around public catering within public institutes (schools, hospitals, care facilities…) that make a direct connection between public food provisioning, agroecological farmers, and land management.<br />
Examples of neighbourhood-based initiatives around food support and place-based solidarity in connection with agroecological farmers. We are particularly interested in community kitchen initiatives building a food sovereignty agenda together with agroecological producers.<br />
<br />
==The General Context of the Ghent Living Lab and Earlier Work==<br />
The urban food policy of the City of Ghent, Gent en Garde, has been the subject of international attention including several prestigious prizes. At the same time, the systematic sale of public farmland in the peri-urban fringe of Ghent has alienated new and traditional farmers who are upset about the systematic loss of farmland. Farmers are rapidly disappearing from the peri-urban fringe, and new farmers face great difficulty in establishing themselves. <br />
Within the context of De Stadsacademie* civil society actors, farmers, urban civil servants, students and researchers have been engaged in the development of alternative policies regarding publicly owned farmland, and agricultural heritage more generally. The land currently being sold off by the city is the fruit of historical investment in urban agricultural heritage that has been handed down over several generations and is part of the permanent improvements (infrastructure, public space, heritage landscapes, drainage systems, etc.) that made farming possible.<br />
Contemporary urban constituencies seem to care little for the future of this publicly owned farmland. In the political debate on the sale of public land urban social goals are played against ecological concerns and the protection of local farming activities. The land is presented as ‘fragmented’ and off little public interest, and sold to finance the development of residential care facilities for the elderly. The campaign against the sale of public farmland has led to a moratorium on further sales in the neighbouring municipalities of Ghent. in the meantime, the city is preparing a vision on Agricultural land use in the city and the wider region. Within De Stadsacademie we want to enter into a dialogue with parties that could help to articulate a shared agenda regarding the way in which the public ownership of farmland could be leveraged to accelerate an agroecological food transition. This will happen in the framework of an agroecological urbanism (www.agroecologicalurbanism.org), which is a way of urbanizing that actively supports the care for soils and the growing of food in an equitable and ecologically sustainable way. We will try to imagine new forms of urban infrastructure and future heritage that contribute to the local support of agroecological farmers and re-inscribe the farming activities within a new urban geography of farming.<br />
Last year we worked within the living lab on various fronts, exploring possible connections between local food policy initiatives and public land management. The results of last year’s local work in the living lab were documented in a series of video portraits: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5xVUeu3UV65ME7uF9RoRoNefUcVm3ba<br />
In July 2023 ‘De Stadacademie’ hosted the 2nd AESOP4FOOD Intensive Programme. A detailed programme of the IP can be found here: Programme IP Ghent - Future Heritage_Agroecological Urbanism<br />
This year we want to narrow the scope of the exercise and go deeper in one of the lines of investigation namely that of the community kitchen and the role of neighbourhood food infrastructure.<br />
part of this hypothesis has been explored in a master thesis that was produced in the context of ‘De Stadsacademie’. Master thesis Neighborfood<br />
<br />
=Madrid Agroecologico Living Lab - Spain=<br />
<br />
==Circular Economy in Food Retail==<br />
It is easier to imagine an apple being integrated into a circular system than most of the consumer goods that surround us. It might be easier, but we are still far away from achieving circular loops in the food sector. The reasons are multiple, some of them are related to the global chains in which our current food system is embedded. We propose a Living Lab based on the assumption that with shorter food chains and more direct relationships between production and consumption, a shift into a circularity paradigm would be more feasible. <br />
The Living Lab Is conceived as a space for the co-generation of applied knowledge together with the cooperative supermarket LA OSA and with the support of the [https://ciecmadrid.es International Center for Circular Economy (CIEC) of the Municipality of Madrid]. The main goal is to boost mechanisms of circular economy, to reduce both packaging and food waste, but also to enhance the recovery and reuse of packaging. The Living Lab responds to an interest expressed by the cooperative and its members, some of whom tried to set up a working group on these matters.<br />
We assume that short food supply chains are better positioned to adopt circularity, and the living lab should help the Cooperative Supermarket to have a diagnosis of the situation and to envision ways to transform and improve it, with the support of the CIEC which in turn, provide coaching and support to create innovative ecosystems.<br />
<br />
==Research questions== <br />
* Is the cooperative supermarket better positioned to reduce the use of plastics in the commercialization of food?<br />
* What has been the impact of the measures adopted to reduce food waste and packaging waste?<br />
* What are the bottlenecks of a transition into a (close to) zero plastic and zero waste model? For which part of the food consumer goods would that be easier?<br />
* Do agroecological projects and short supply chains perform better in terms of circularity? What are their potentials to achieve circularity and how can they be enhanced?<br />
* What are the implications in terms of spatial requirements and organizational operations associated with a shorter change embedded in circularity?<br />
<br />
==Research questions for remote students==<br />
<br />
* What are examples of good practices to enhance circular loops in the food chain, focussing on the production-distribution linkages?<br />
* Which are the key factors to replicate practices of regenerative food production embedded in closed loops?<br />
<br />
= A Living Lab for building a Local Food Strategy for the Bucharest District 6 - Romania=<br />
<br />
==Introduction== <br />
Sector 6 of Bucharest is an administrative unit with diverse quarters like Crângași, Drumul Taberei, Ghencea, Giulești, Militari, and Regie. The sector covers 38 square kilometers, housing a population of 325,759 as of December 2021. It aims to become a smart and green city, with strategic plans for urban development. For more detailed information, you can visit the Wikipedia page on Sector 6 of Bucharest.<br />
[[File:Sector 6.png|thumb|right]]<br />
Bucharest's District 6 is starting a sustainable food strategy aimed at enhancing local production, decreasing environmental impacts, and fortifying community connections. This initiative proposes the creation of a living lab—a collaborative environment where citizens, researchers, policymakers, and businesses unite to tackle complex challenges within the local food system. <br />
<br />
Expected Outcomes:<br />
* A detailed map of District 6's food ecosystem, with key players and their interactions.<br />
* Defining general objectives aligning with community needs and sustainability ambitions.<br />
* A shared vision for District 6's future food system, leading to a strategic plan and scalable pilot projects.<br />
[[File:Sector6detail.png|thumb|right]]<br />
<br />
==Objectives for local students==<br />
* Mapping the Local Food System: To catalog all participants in District 6's food system, including producers, distributors, retailers, consumers, and waste handlers, thereby identifying product flows, inefficiencies, and opportunities for sustainability.<br />
* Establishing General Objectives: To set comprehensive goals like reducing food transportation distances, improving food security, advocating for local and seasonal foods, and cutting down food waste.<br />
* Developing a Vision: To formulate a long-term outlook for District 6’s food system that embodies sustainability, community welfare, and economic health.<br />
* Creating a Strategy: To devise an actionable plan that includes innovative practices such as urban agriculture, food sharing initiatives, and circular economy principles, detailing both immediate and future steps, potential hurdles, and success indicators.<br />
<br />
==Research questions for remote students==<br />
# Integration: How can District 6's food strategy integrate with the broader city-region for mutual sustainability benefits?<br />
# Formation: What are the necessary steps and key players for establishing an effective local food council at the district level?<br />
# Objectives: In a post-socialist capital's context such as District 6, what are the primary goals for a local food strategy?<br />
# Engagement: What are the most effective methods for engaging residents in the local food system strategy?<br />
[[File:Sector6market.png|thumb]]<br />
<br />
=A Living Lab in Tartu, Estonia=<br />
Tartu (cultural capital of Europe 2024) is the second biggest city in Estonia and is located in the southeast part of the country. Agriculture is an important aspect of the county's development.<br />
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This theme will focus on the expanding interest in Estonia in organic food production within a framework of sustainable farming, together with the Tartu County Food Strategy 2022-2030. The idea is to develop the Agricultural Park concept in the urban fringe of Tartu, which would serve as a place of organic production, agricultural innovation, education, economy, and bioeconomy, but would be also a potential place for recreation and act as a connector people and the city green and blue infrastructure. Two different student groups will focus on practical work, land use analysis, site-specific interventions, and working with different stakeholders, including a marginalised group of people from a care setting. De-institutionalised care is a recent move in Estonia, with people being removed from large care home settings to smaller, cosier groups in the community supported by care workers. However, they are not well integrated into the community, and work opportunities are low.<br />
<br />
===Urban food hub/living lab in Tartu===<br />
According to the Tartu County Food Strategy 2022-2030, Tartu county in Estonia is well known for its various public or private initiatives regarding food production at different scales. It is also known for its research on organic food, collaboration networks, and multiple food industry businesses. However, there is a lack of a common and consistent food strategy for the region. The authors of the report aim not only to consider organic farming principles but also to shorten product cycles in accordance with the ‘farm to table’ principle; localising production; strengthening networking activities; cooperating with local research and development units; and creating of a common brand, that would bring recognition to the county’s products. These aims should be done within EU frameworks in a socially, economically, culturally, and ecologically sustainable way, taking into consideration site-specific conditions and the complicated past of the Baltic countries and land reforms connected to it (such as the soviet era collectivisation process, re-establishing of the family farms as well as commercial agricultural farms and its impact on current approaches to agriculture). Following on from that, the aim is to understand the landscape spatial planning and design implications of the above-mentioned strategy. Understanding of local needs and conditions, and the values that local inhabitants hold on in the environment, culture, and economy. Participants will choose to work on the area of Mahekeskus (Organic Farming Centre) of the Estonian University of Life Sciences or find additional suitable spaces or spatial approaches for the topic.<br />
<br />
Local challenge: to understand the potential of Tartu city and county to become a food hub, including social, economic, cultural and ecological spatial challenges, namely, creating a joint food collaboration network in its social, cultural, and spatial dimensions. Promotion and marketing of locally produced food. Integrating people in care into the community through healthy activities or work based in the agricultural park.<br />
<br />
The students of the comprehensive planning course are collecting and preparing information to analyse the possibilities for creating a Food Hub close to Tartu town at and around the sustainable farming centre of the Estonian University of Life Sciences. They are aiming to collect existing legal land use data and analyse land use possibilities and limitations in them. This aims to result in initiating and discussing some ideas for the content of the Food Hub together with the Living Lab, that will be developed. It will have a follow-up in the Landscape Forum Tartu 2024 workshop on Foodscapes. The plan is to develop a further research project application for the Food Hub.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for local students==<br />
# What can be learned from the history regarding agriculture and urban agriculture in the Tartu region?<br />
# What are current municipal food and agricultural policies and how they are connected with spatial planning and management documents? How do these documents influence or suggest the potential to develop (peri-)urban agriculture in Tartu?<br />
# What are the ownership conditions of farmland around and within Tartu? What are different agricultural land-use types and practices (formal and informal)?<br />
# What are the social and cultural conditions and potentials to develop a (peri-)urban food hub or agricultural park in Tartu?<br />
# Who are the existing and potential stakeholders? What are their characteristics?<br />
# What is the potential for inclusion for those in care in the community placements <br />
<br />
Summary of analysis in the form of land-use and strategic limitations and possibilities, report of stakeholder mapping and/or interviews/questionnaires as well as an overview of initial ideas about food hub or landscape park based on Mahekeskus and other areas.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote students==<br />
# What is the current situation of urban food production in an EU country, comparing the Baltic countries with other areas? What influences it?<br />
# How can urban agriculture in small cities such as Tartu be strategically planned and promoted?<br />
Summary of analysis in the form of SWOT analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, as well as stakeholder mapping and/or interviews/questionnaires.<br />
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==Spatial planning and design strategy across both student groups==<br />
# What are the existing spatial solutions unifying and enhancing food production in urban and peri-urban areas as well as connection with rural areas (such as the concept of agricultural parks).<br />
# What solutions can be adapted or implemented in Tartu county? How and why?<br />
# How can these areas be governed and managed in a sustainable, inclusive, and multifunctional way?<br />
# How can the interests of all defined stakeholders be strategically connected?<br />
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=Living Labs in development=<br />
The presented living lab subjects and questions are in development. If you participate in assignment mode, you can also define your own research question or the aim of your assignment. You need to send that in the survey you received before February 16, 2024. After that date, it is only possible to participate in the course in lecture mode.<br />
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= Montpellier « Changes in a neighbourhood's* food environment with the arrival of a new tramway line » Living Lab /France=<br />
*Neighbourhood under definition, in partnership with INRAE and Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole<br />
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==Context==<br />
Food environments can be defined as the “physical, economic, political and socio-cultural context in which consumers engage with the food system to make their decisions about acquiring, preparing and consuming food”.<br />
<br />
In contrast to the ‘consumer choice model’ (founded on the idea that awareness raising and education about better food choices will make people change their food behaviour), the ‘food environment approach’ recognises that the choices we make about food and the impacts they have are, to a significant degree, shaped by the contexts within which they are made. Following from that, it recognises that the most effective and equitable way to change food behaviours is to change the structural factors that drive food choice, among which are aspects of the built environment. As they affect access to food entry points, including the distance to food outlets, and the availability of physical infrastructures, such as public transport networks, etc.<br />
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Local players can therefore act on the environment to encourage more sustainable and healthier eating habits, by improving accessibility to the entire food offer: shops, restaurants, markets, and points of sale.<br />
Montpellier's tramway network already comprises 4 lines. A 5th line, 20 km long, is currently under construction and will cross the city and serve the neighbourhood cities of Greater Montpellier by 2025. With this 5th line, the Metropole offers a new North/South-West diagonal to its network, linking its transport network even more finely and extensively.<br />
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Urban development projects and other public policies (linked to transport or the commercial offer, for example) often modify food landscapes. Their impact on household food supply practices is, however, poorly understood, and may vary according to the social, demographic, and economic characteristics of populations and territories. To better understand these spatio-temporal dynamics, the first step is to describe and characterize food landscapes (or environments) and their evolution.<br />
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==Assignment questions for local students==<br />
In a specific neighborhood of the Montpellier metropolitan area, the idea is to carry out a field survey to determine a diagnosis of food environments and how they are evolving: <br />
* Define the urban and social characteristics of the area in question<br />
* Mapping current food landscapes: the neighborhood food offer<br />
* Outlook on the evolution of these food landscapes with the arrival of the 5th tramway line<br />
* Recommendations for new developments around the tramway line<br />
This survey is part of a larger project, on a metropolitan scale, being carried out by a research team and players in Montpellier's Agroecological and Food Policy (Politique Agroécologique et Alimentaire).<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote students==<br />
* Review of literature and case studies on the impact of transport infrastructure projects on the evolution of food environments<br />
* Depending on the social and urban characteristics of the selected neighborhood: what ways can be found to improve its food environments?<br />
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Mastering French to a certain extent is a preference since much of the references and stakeholder responses will be in French, a comparative case study of other countries can of course be carried out in English.<br />
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=Warsaw “MOST Urban Farm” Living Lab -Poland=<br />
==Production and collaboration with local farmers==<br />
Short video presentation, Short pdf description 2023-01_MOST_LL_en, Extended description<br />
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FZvY1t1ptUOfIXTSJ8XrFWJecCt6WlrU/view?usp=sharing<br />
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The Warsaw Urban Farm initiative was born out of the need to prepare the city for the upcoming effects of the environmental and food crises. Our goal is to create a local center for agro-ecological education and food production, and to develop and network future leaders in the field of sustainable food planning to contribute locally to food security and a healthier environment.<br />
To strengthen the city's resilience, we want to establish Warsaw's first farm (MOST), which will also be an incubator for further initiatives in the area of the sustainable food system of Warsaw and surrounding suburban and rural areas.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for the local students== <br />
* In addition to finances, what are the potential benefits of establishing the MOST farm in the selected location?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; analysis of spatial planning documents; field trip; spatial analysis; identifying key partners and stakeholders; identifying main problems and challenges faced by farmers operating in the selected area; SWOT analysis for the Warsaw agriculture of the upper Vistula)<br />
* What should be an economic model of the MOST farm?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trip; identifying main problems and challenges faced by farmers operating in the selected area; SWOT analysis for the Warsaw agriculture of the upper Vistula, developing an economic model )<br />
* Who are the stakeholders (municipality, neighbor community, involved institutions, and farmers) and what are their needs and influence?<br />
(methods: field trip; analysis of land ownership; identifying key partners and stakeholders; mapping all actors and their needs and power; define potential partnerships and alliances)<br />
* What is the attitude of local farmers towards urban agriculture initiatives, particularly MOST?<br />
(methods: field trip; mapping local farmers; interviews and questionnaires; designing a food hub)<br />
* What edible plants are the best to cultivate in MOST farm? Considering climate factors and socio-economic factors (production feasibility, retail). <br />
(methods: literature review; field trip; consultation with an expert)<br />
* What is the Warsaw municipality's attitude toward biodiversity? Is it only a cost of maintaining vacant lands or a food production opportunity?<br />
(methods: analysis of Municipality planning documents; interviews and questionnaires)<br />
* What are the regional rituals associated with agriculture and how to transfer them to an urban context?<br />
(methods: literature review; field trip; mapping local farmers; interviews and questionnaires; developing a proposal for an urban harvest celebration)<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for the remote students==<br />
* What should the coop urban farm include in its programme? What are the potential benefits (social, economic, environmental, others), and how to increase them?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trips)<br />
* What are the models of coop urban farms around the world? (Economic models, inner organization structures).<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trips)<br />
* What are the city's policies towards vacant lands considering its biodiversity and food production opportunities?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; analysis of Municipality planning documents; interviews and questionnaires)<br />
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=Ghent "Agroecological Urbanism Future Heritage" Living Lab - Belgium=<br />
Ghent University in collaboration with De Stadsacademie*, STA.M, ILVO<br />
De Stadsacademie is a collaboratorium dedicated to transdisciplinary research and teaching on complex and urgent sustainability challenges faced by the city and the University of Ghent. De Stadsacademie works on several ‘trajectories’ that define the thematic scope of its work over a series of years.<br />
<br />
==Starting with the Kitchen. Rethinking neighbourhood food systems from an agroecological perspective==<br />
To rethink and transform urban local food systems, the kitchen is a good place to start. Even in the highly commodified urban food system of a city like Ghent, the kitchen entertains a strong relation of proximity to the places of eating. That is true for the individual kitchens at home but is true for collective kitchen infrastructure. The kitchen is not only the place where food is prepared, It is also a place in which logic of consumption and production meet. This also makes the kitchen a place of potential solidarity between producers and consumers.<br />
In this year’s working cycle of the Living Lab, we will explore the agroecological transformation of neighbourhood food systems through the perspective of the community kitchen in the Bloemekenswijk in Ghent. While the Bloemekenswijk is historically part of the periphery of Ghent, it is today subject to new dynamics of urbanization that reposition the neighbourhood within the urban agglomeration and set up a new dialogue between local and supra-local relations. This gives an opportunity to think about the role of neighbourhood infrastructure in general and food infrastructure in particular. The neighbourhood contains an array of existing food initiatives that can be the starting point of an agroecological transformation of the food system. The focus will be in particular on the Bloemekenswijk, however, will include the documentation of initiatives in other neighbourhoods as well.<br />
<br />
We will be exploring different transformative pathways together with actors within the neighbourhood.<br />
* the possible connection of neighbourhood initiatives to farmland owned by the Public Center for Social Welfare (OCMW)<br />
* the possible coproduction between the existing social economy cluster (VZW Ateljee & Balenmagazijn) with social economy initiatives active in food production (De Loods in Aalst)<br />
* the possible creation of a food hub, supplying food to existing neighbourhood restaurants, institutional canteens, school kitchens, etc.<br />
* the transformation of the existing market (Van Beverenplein) as a public site of local food supply in co-creation with neighbourhood food initiatives<br />
* the reactivation of the bakery on the psychiatric campus Dr. Guislain<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote student==<br />
Students can choose between track A (literature review) or B (case study)<br />
===A. Literature review on neighborhood food systems and what makes them transformative===<br />
* What are the main drivers behind the creation of neighborhood food systems?<br />
* How can place-based initiatives be used to define solidarities that don’t remain limited to the local (and move beyond the local trap (Purcell 2006))?<br />
* How do local initiatives cope with the tension between ecological and social goals?<br />
* How can neighbourhood infrastructure be retooled to link up with local producers? What are the organizational and infrastructural implications of relying on direct supply?<br />
* How dependent are food support initiatives on surplus food and how do they seek to break that dependency?<br />
<br />
===B. Documentation, discussion of existing practices connecting neighbourhood food networks and infrastructures to local suppliers, and questions of access to land?===<br />
Examples around public catering within public institutes (schools, hospitals, care facilities…) that make a direct connection between public food provisioning, agroecological farmers, and land management.<br />
Examples of neighbourhood-based initiatives around food support and place-based solidarity in connection with agroecological farmers. We are particularly interested in community kitchen initiatives building a food sovereignty agenda together with agroecological producers.<br />
<br />
==The General Context of the Ghent Living Lab and Earlier Work==<br />
The urban food policy of the City of Ghent, Gent en Garde, has been the subject of international attention including several prestigious prizes. At the same time, the systematic sale of public farmland in the peri-urban fringe of Ghent has alienated new and traditional farmers who are upset about the systematic loss of farmland. Farmers are rapidly disappearing from the peri-urban fringe, and new farmers face great difficulty in establishing themselves. <br />
Within the context of De Stadsacademie* civil society actors, farmers, urban civil servants, students and researchers have been engaged in the development of alternative policies regarding publicly owned farmland, and agricultural heritage more generally. The land currently being sold off by the city is the fruit of historical investment in urban agricultural heritage that has been handed down over several generations and is part of the permanent improvements (infrastructure, public space, heritage landscapes, drainage systems, etc.) that made farming possible.<br />
Contemporary urban constituencies seem to care little for the future of this publicly owned farmland. In the political debate on the sale of public land urban social goals are played against ecological concerns and the protection of local farming activities. The land is presented as ‘fragmented’ and off little public interest, and sold to finance the development of residential care facilities for the elderly. The campaign against the sale of public farmland has led to a moratorium on further sales in the neighbouring municipalities of Ghent. in the meantime, the city is preparing a vision on Agricultural land use in the city and the wider region. Within De Stadsacademie we want to enter into a dialogue with parties that could help to articulate a shared agenda regarding the way in which the public ownership of farmland could be leveraged to accelerate an agroecological food transition. This will happen in the framework of an agroecological urbanism (www.agroecologicalurbanism.org), which is a way of urbanizing that actively supports the care for soils and the growing of food in an equitable and ecologically sustainable way. We will try to imagine new forms of urban infrastructure and future heritage that contribute to the local support of agroecological farmers and re-inscribe the farming activities within a new urban geography of farming.<br />
Last year we worked within the living lab on various fronts, exploring possible connections between local food policy initiatives and public land management. The results of last year’s local work in the living lab were documented in a series of video portraits: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5xVUeu3UV65ME7uF9RoRoNefUcVm3ba<br />
In July 2023 ‘De Stadacademie’ hosted the 2nd AESOP4FOOD Intensive Programme. A detailed programme of the IP can be found here: Programme IP Ghent - Future Heritage_Agroecological Urbanism<br />
This year we want to narrow the scope of the exercise and go deeper in one of the lines of investigation namely that of the community kitchen and the role of neighbourhood food infrastructure.<br />
part of this hypothesis has been explored in a master thesis that was produced in the context of ‘De Stadsacademie’. Master thesis Neighborfood<br />
<br />
=Madrid Agroecologico Living Lab - Spain=<br />
<br />
==Circular Economy in Food Retail==<br />
It is easier to imagine an apple being integrated into a circular system than most of the consumer goods that surround us. It might be easier, but we are still far away from achieving circular loops in the food sector. The reasons are multiple, some of them are related to the global chains in which our current food system is embedded. We propose a Living Lab based on the assumption that with shorter food chains and more direct relationships between production and consumption, a shift into a circularity paradigm would be more feasible. <br />
The Living Lab Is conceived as a space for the co-generation of applied knowledge together with the cooperative supermarket LA OSA and with the support of the [https://ciecmadrid.es International Center for Circular Economy (CIEC) of the Municipality of Madrid]. The main goal is to boost mechanisms of circular economy, to reduce both packaging and food waste, but also to enhance the recovery and reuse of packaging. The Living Lab responds to an interest expressed by the cooperative and its members, some of whom tried to set up a working group on these matters.<br />
We assume that short food supply chains are better positioned to adopt circularity, and the living lab should help the Cooperative Supermarket to have a diagnosis of the situation and to envision ways to transform and improve it, with the support of the CIEC which in turn, provide coaching and support to create innovative ecosystems.<br />
<br />
==Research questions== <br />
* Is the cooperative supermarket better positioned to reduce the use of plastics in the commercialization of food?<br />
* What has been the impact of the measures adopted to reduce food waste and packaging waste?<br />
* What are the bottlenecks of a transition into a (close to) zero plastic and zero waste model? For which part of the food consumer goods would that be easier?<br />
* Do agroecological projects and short supply chains perform better in terms of circularity? What are their potentials to achieve circularity and how can they be enhanced?<br />
* What are the implications in terms of spatial requirements and organizational operations associated with a shorter change embedded in circularity?<br />
<br />
==Research questions for remote students==<br />
<br />
* What are examples of good practices to enhance circular loops in the food chain, focussing on the production-distribution linkages?<br />
* Which are the key factors to replicate practices of regenerative food production embedded in closed loops?<br />
<br />
= A Living Lab for building a Local Food Strategy for the Bucharest District 6=<br />
<br />
==Introduction== <br />
Sector 6 of Bucharest is an administrative unit with diverse quarters like Crângași, Drumul Taberei, Ghencea, Giulești, Militari, and Regie. The sector covers 38 square kilometers, housing a population of 325,759 as of December 2021. It aims to become a smart and green city, with strategic plans for urban development. For more detailed information, you can visit the Wikipedia page on Sector 6 of Bucharest.<br />
[[File:Sector 6.png|thumb|right]]<br />
Bucharest's District 6 is starting a sustainable food strategy aimed at enhancing local production, decreasing environmental impacts, and fortifying community connections. This initiative proposes the creation of a living lab—a collaborative environment where citizens, researchers, policymakers, and businesses unite to tackle complex challenges within the local food system. <br />
<br />
Expected Outcomes:<br />
* A detailed map of District 6's food ecosystem, with key players and their interactions.<br />
* Defining general objectives aligning with community needs and sustainability ambitions.<br />
* A shared vision for District 6's future food system, leading to a strategic plan and scalable pilot projects.<br />
[[File:Sector6detail.png|thumb|right]]<br />
<br />
==Objectives for local students==<br />
* Mapping the Local Food System: To catalog all participants in District 6's food system, including producers, distributors, retailers, consumers, and waste handlers, thereby identifying product flows, inefficiencies, and opportunities for sustainability.<br />
* Establishing General Objectives: To set comprehensive goals like reducing food transportation distances, improving food security, advocating for local and seasonal foods, and cutting down food waste.<br />
* Developing a Vision: To formulate a long-term outlook for District 6’s food system that embodies sustainability, community welfare, and economic health.<br />
* Creating a Strategy: To devise an actionable plan that includes innovative practices such as urban agriculture, food sharing initiatives, and circular economy principles, detailing both immediate and future steps, potential hurdles, and success indicators.<br />
<br />
==Research questions for remote students==<br />
# Integration: How can District 6's food strategy integrate with the broader city-region for mutual sustainability benefits?<br />
# Formation: What are the necessary steps and key players for establishing an effective local food council at the district level?<br />
# Objectives: In a post-socialist capital's context such as District 6, what are the primary goals for a local food strategy?<br />
# Engagement: What are the most effective methods for engaging residents in the local food system strategy?<br />
[[File:Sector6market.png|thumb]]<br />
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=A Living Lab in Tartu, Estonia=<br />
Tartu (cultural capital of Europe 2024) is the second biggest city in Estonia and is located in the southeast part of the country. Agriculture is an important aspect of the county's development.<br />
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This theme will focus on the expanding interest in Estonia in organic food production within a framework of sustainable farming, together with the Tartu County Food Strategy 2022-2030. The idea is to develop the Agricultural Park concept in the urban fringe of Tartu, which would serve as a place of organic production, agricultural innovation, education, economy, and bioeconomy, but would be also a potential place for recreation and act as a connector people and the city green and blue infrastructure. Two different student groups will focus on practical work, land use analysis, site-specific interventions, and working with different stakeholders, including a marginalised group of people from a care setting. De-institutionalised care is a recent move in Estonia, with people being removed from large care home settings to smaller, cosier groups in the community supported by care workers. However, they are not well integrated into the community, and work opportunities are low.<br />
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===Urban food hub/living lab in Tartu===<br />
According to the Tartu County Food Strategy 2022-2030, Tartu county in Estonia is well known for its various public or private initiatives regarding food production at different scales. It is also known for its research on organic food, collaboration networks, and multiple food industry businesses. However, there is a lack of a common and consistent food strategy for the region. The authors of the report aim not only to consider organic farming principles but also to shorten product cycles in accordance with the ‘farm to table’ principle; localising production; strengthening networking activities; cooperating with local research and development units; and creating of a common brand, that would bring recognition to the county’s products. These aims should be done within EU frameworks in a socially, economically, culturally, and ecologically sustainable way, taking into consideration site-specific conditions and the complicated past of the Baltic countries and land reforms connected to it (such as the soviet era collectivisation process, re-establishing of the family farms as well as commercial agricultural farms and its impact on current approaches to agriculture). Following on from that, the aim is to understand the landscape spatial planning and design implications of the above-mentioned strategy. Understanding of local needs and conditions, and the values that local inhabitants hold on in the environment, culture, and economy. Participants will choose to work on the area of Mahekeskus (Organic Farming Centre) of the Estonian University of Life Sciences or find additional suitable spaces or spatial approaches for the topic.<br />
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Local challenge: to understand the potential of Tartu city and county to become a food hub, including social, economic, cultural and ecological spatial challenges, namely, creating a joint food collaboration network in its social, cultural, and spatial dimensions. Promotion and marketing of locally produced food. Integrating people in care into the community through healthy activities or work based in the agricultural park.<br />
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The students of the comprehensive planning course are collecting and preparing information to analyse the possibilities for creating a Food Hub close to Tartu town at and around the sustainable farming centre of the Estonian University of Life Sciences. They are aiming to collect existing legal land use data and analyse land use possibilities and limitations in them. This aims to result in initiating and discussing some ideas for the content of the Food Hub together with the Living Lab, that will be developed. It will have a follow-up in the Landscape Forum Tartu 2024 workshop on Foodscapes. The plan is to develop a further research project application for the Food Hub.<br />
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==Assignment questions for local students==<br />
# What can be learned from the history regarding agriculture and urban agriculture in the Tartu region?<br />
# What are current municipal food and agricultural policies and how they are connected with spatial planning and management documents? How do these documents influence or suggest the potential to develop (peri-)urban agriculture in Tartu?<br />
# What are the ownership conditions of farmland around and within Tartu? What are different agricultural land-use types and practices (formal and informal)?<br />
# What are the social and cultural conditions and potentials to develop a (peri-)urban food hub or agricultural park in Tartu?<br />
# Who are the existing and potential stakeholders? What are their characteristics?<br />
# What is the potential for inclusion for those in care in the community placements <br />
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Summary of analysis in the form of land-use and strategic limitations and possibilities, report of stakeholder mapping and/or interviews/questionnaires as well as an overview of initial ideas about food hub or landscape park based on Mahekeskus and other areas.<br />
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==Assignment questions for remote students==<br />
# What is the current situation of urban food production in an EU country, comparing the Baltic countries with other areas? What influences it?<br />
# How can urban agriculture in small cities such as Tartu be strategically planned and promoted?<br />
Summary of analysis in the form of SWOT analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, as well as stakeholder mapping and/or interviews/questionnaires.<br />
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==Spatial planning and design strategy across both student groups==<br />
# What are the existing spatial solutions unifying and enhancing food production in urban and peri-urban areas as well as connection with rural areas (such as the concept of agricultural parks).<br />
# What solutions can be adapted or implemented in Tartu county? How and why?<br />
# How can these areas be governed and managed in a sustainable, inclusive, and multifunctional way?<br />
# How can the interests of all defined stakeholders be strategically connected?<br />
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Summary in the form of the strategic plan description and/or drawings/maps/plans</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=Living_labs_and_research_questions_2024&diff=670Living labs and research questions 20242024-02-23T09:03:16Z<p>Admin: /* Assignment questions for remote student */</p>
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=Living Labs in development=<br />
The presented living lab subjects and questions are in development. If you participate in assignment mode, you can also define your own research question or the aim of your assignment. You need to send that in the survey you received before February 16, 2024. After that date, it is only possible to participate in the course in lecture mode.<br />
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= Montpellier « Changes in a neighbourhood's* food environment with the arrival of a new tramway line » Living Lab /France=<br />
*Neighbourhood under definition, in partnership with INRAE and Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole<br />
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==Context==<br />
Food environments can be defined as the “physical, economic, political and socio-cultural context in which consumers engage with the food system to make their decisions about acquiring, preparing and consuming food”.<br />
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In contrast to the ‘consumer choice model’ (founded on the idea that awareness raising and education about better food choices will make people change their food behaviour), the ‘food environment approach’ recognises that the choices we make about food and the impacts they have are, to a significant degree, shaped by the contexts within which they are made. Following from that, it recognises that the most effective and equitable way to change food behaviours is to change the structural factors that drive food choice, among which are aspects of the built environment. As they affect access to food entry points, including the distance to food outlets, and the availability of physical infrastructures, such as public transport networks, etc.<br />
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Local players can therefore act on the environment to encourage more sustainable and healthier eating habits, by improving accessibility to the entire food offer: shops, restaurants, markets, and points of sale.<br />
Montpellier's tramway network already comprises 4 lines. A 5th line, 20 km long, is currently under construction and will cross the city and serve the neighbourhood cities of Greater Montpellier by 2025. With this 5th line, the Metropole offers a new North/South-West diagonal to its network, linking its transport network even more finely and extensively.<br />
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Urban development projects and other public policies (linked to transport or the commercial offer, for example) often modify food landscapes. Their impact on household food supply practices is, however, poorly understood, and may vary according to the social, demographic, and economic characteristics of populations and territories. To better understand these spatio-temporal dynamics, the first step is to describe and characterize food landscapes (or environments) and their evolution.<br />
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==Assignment questions for local students==<br />
In a specific neighborhood of the Montpellier metropolitan area, the idea is to carry out a field survey to determine a diagnosis of food environments and how they are evolving: <br />
* Define the urban and social characteristics of the area in question<br />
* Mapping current food landscapes: the neighborhood food offer<br />
* Outlook on the evolution of these food landscapes with the arrival of the 5th tramway line<br />
* Recommendations for new developments around the tramway line<br />
This survey is part of a larger project, on a metropolitan scale, being carried out by a research team and players in Montpellier's Agroecological and Food Policy (Politique Agroécologique et Alimentaire).<br />
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==Assignment questions for remote students==<br />
* Review of literature and case studies on the impact of transport infrastructure projects on the evolution of food environments<br />
* Depending on the social and urban characteristics of the selected neighborhood: what ways can be found to improve its food environments?<br />
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Mastering French to a certain extent is a preference since much of the references and stakeholder responses will be in French, a comparative case study of other countries can of course be carried out in English.<br />
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=Warsaw “MOST Urban Farm” Living Lab -Poland=<br />
==Production and collaboration with local farmers==<br />
Short video presentation, Short pdf description 2023-01_MOST_LL_en, Extended description<br />
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FZvY1t1ptUOfIXTSJ8XrFWJecCt6WlrU/view?usp=sharing<br />
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The Warsaw Urban Farm initiative was born out of the need to prepare the city for the upcoming effects of the environmental and food crises. Our goal is to create a local center for agro-ecological education and food production, and to develop and network future leaders in the field of sustainable food planning to contribute locally to food security and a healthier environment.<br />
To strengthen the city's resilience, we want to establish Warsaw's first farm (MOST), which will also be an incubator for further initiatives in the area of the sustainable food system of Warsaw and surrounding suburban and rural areas.<br />
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==Assignment questions for the local students== <br />
* In addition to finances, what are the potential benefits of establishing the MOST farm in the selected location?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; analysis of spatial planning documents; field trip; spatial analysis; identifying key partners and stakeholders; identifying main problems and challenges faced by farmers operating in the selected area; SWOT analysis for the Warsaw agriculture of the upper Vistula)<br />
* What should be an economic model of the MOST farm?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trip; identifying main problems and challenges faced by farmers operating in the selected area; SWOT analysis for the Warsaw agriculture of the upper Vistula, developing an economic model )<br />
* Who are the stakeholders (municipality, neighbor community, involved institutions, and farmers) and what are their needs and influence?<br />
(methods: field trip; analysis of land ownership; identifying key partners and stakeholders; mapping all actors and their needs and power; define potential partnerships and alliances)<br />
* What is the attitude of local farmers towards urban agriculture initiatives, particularly MOST?<br />
(methods: field trip; mapping local farmers; interviews and questionnaires; designing a food hub)<br />
* What edible plants are the best to cultivate in MOST farm? Considering climate factors and socio-economic factors (production feasibility, retail). <br />
(methods: literature review; field trip; consultation with an expert)<br />
* What is the Warsaw municipality's attitude toward biodiversity? Is it only a cost of maintaining vacant lands or a food production opportunity?<br />
(methods: analysis of Municipality planning documents; interviews and questionnaires)<br />
* What are the regional rituals associated with agriculture and how to transfer them to an urban context?<br />
(methods: literature review; field trip; mapping local farmers; interviews and questionnaires; developing a proposal for an urban harvest celebration)<br />
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==Assignment questions for the remote students==<br />
* What should the coop urban farm include in its programme? What are the potential benefits (social, economic, environmental, others), and how to increase them?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trips)<br />
* What are the models of coop urban farms around the world? (Economic models, inner organization structures).<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trips)<br />
* What are the city's policies towards vacant lands considering its biodiversity and food production opportunities?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; analysis of Municipality planning documents; interviews and questionnaires)<br />
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=Ghent "Agroecological Urbanism Future Heritage" Living Lab - Belgium=<br />
Ghent University in collaboration with De Stadsacademie*, STA.M, ILVO<br />
De Stadsacademie is a collaboratorium dedicated to transdisciplinary research and teaching on complex and urgent sustainability challenges faced by the city and the University of Ghent. De Stadsacademie works on several ‘trajectories’ that define the thematic scope of its work over a series of years.<br />
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==Starting with the Kitchen. Rethinking neighbourhood food systems from an agroecological perspective==<br />
To rethink and transform urban local food systems, the kitchen is a good place to start. Even in the highly commodified urban food system of a city like Ghent, the kitchen entertains a strong relation of proximity to the places of eating. That is true for the individual kitchens at home but is true for collective kitchen infrastructure. The kitchen is not only the place where food is prepared, It is also a place in which logic of consumption and production meet. This also makes the kitchen a place of potential solidarity between producers and consumers.<br />
In this year’s working cycle of the Living Lab, we will explore the agroecological transformation of neighbourhood food systems through the perspective of the community kitchen in the Bloemekenswijk in Ghent. While the Bloemekenswijk is historically part of the periphery of Ghent, it is today subject to new dynamics of urbanization that reposition the neighbourhood within the urban agglomeration and set up a new dialogue between local and supra-local relations. This gives an opportunity to think about the role of neighbourhood infrastructure in general and food infrastructure in particular. The neighbourhood contains an array of existing food initiatives that can be the starting point of an agroecological transformation of the food system. The focus will be in particular on the Bloemekenswijk, however, will include the documentation of initiatives in other neighbourhoods as well.<br />
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We will be exploring different transformative pathways together with actors within the neighbourhood.<br />
* the possible connection of neighbourhood initiatives to farmland owned by the Public Center for Social Welfare (OCMW)<br />
* the possible coproduction between the existing social economy cluster (VZW Ateljee & Balenmagazijn) with social economy initiatives active in food production (De Loods in Aalst)<br />
* the possible creation of a food hub, supplying food to existing neighbourhood restaurants, institutional canteens, school kitchens, etc.<br />
* the transformation of the existing market (Van Beverenplein) as a public site of local food supply in co-creation with neighbourhood food initiatives<br />
* the reactivation of the bakery on the psychiatric campus Dr. Guislain<br />
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==Assignment questions for remote student==<br />
Students can choose between track A (literature review) or B (case study)<br />
===A. Literature review on neighborhood food systems and what makes them transformative===<br />
* What are the main drivers behind the creation of neighborhood food systems?<br />
* How can place-based initiatives be used to define solidarities that don’t remain limited to the local (and move beyond the local trap (Purcell 2006))?<br />
* How do local initiatives cope with the tension between ecological and social goals?<br />
* How can neighbourhood infrastructure be retooled to link up with local producers? What are the organizational and infrastructural implications of relying on direct supply?<br />
* How dependent are food support initiatives on surplus food and how do they seek to break that dependency?<br />
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===B. Documentation, discussion of existing practices connecting neighbourhood food networks and infrastructures to local suppliers, and questions of access to land?===<br />
Examples around public catering within public institutes (schools, hospitals, care facilities…) that make a direct connection between public food provisioning, agroecological farmers, and land management.<br />
Examples of neighbourhood-based initiatives around food support and place-based solidarity in connection with agroecological farmers. We are particularly interested in community kitchen initiatives building a food sovereignty agenda together with agroecological producers.<br />
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==The General Context of the Ghent Living Lab and Earlier Work==<br />
The urban food policy of the City of Ghent, Gent en Garde, has been the subject of international attention including several prestigious prizes. At the same time, the systematic sale of public farmland in the peri-urban fringe of Ghent has alienated new and traditional farmers who are upset about the systematic loss of farmland. Farmers are rapidly disappearing from the peri-urban fringe, and new farmers face great difficulty in establishing themselves. <br />
Within the context of De Stadsacademie* civil society actors, farmers, urban civil servants, students and researchers have been engaged in the development of alternative policies regarding publicly owned farmland, and agricultural heritage more generally. The land currently being sold off by the city is the fruit of historical investment in urban agricultural heritage that has been handed down over several generations and is part of the permanent improvements (infrastructure, public space, heritage landscapes, drainage systems, etc.) that made farming possible.<br />
Contemporary urban constituencies seem to care little for the future of this publicly owned farmland. In the political debate on the sale of public land urban social goals are played against ecological concerns and the protection of local farming activities. The land is presented as ‘fragmented’ and off little public interest, and sold to finance the development of residential care facilities for the elderly. The campaign against the sale of public farmland has led to a moratorium on further sales in the neighbouring municipalities of Ghent. in the meantime, the city is preparing a vision on Agricultural land use in the city and the wider region. Within De Stadsacademie we want to enter into a dialogue with parties that could help to articulate a shared agenda regarding the way in which the public ownership of farmland could be leveraged to accelerate an agroecological food transition. This will happen in the framework of an agroecological urbanism (www.agroecologicalurbanism.org), which is a way of urbanizing that actively supports the care for soils and the growing of food in an equitable and ecologically sustainable way. We will try to imagine new forms of urban infrastructure and future heritage that contribute to the local support of agroecological farmers and re-inscribe the farming activities within a new urban geography of farming.<br />
Last year we worked within the living lab on various fronts, exploring possible connections between local food policy initiatives and public land management. The results of last year’s local work in the living lab were documented in a series of video portraits: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5xVUeu3UV65ME7uF9RoRoNefUcVm3ba<br />
In July 2023 ‘De Stadacademie’ hosted the 2nd AESOP4FOOD Intensive Programme. A detailed programme of the IP can be found here: Programme IP Ghent - Future Heritage_Agroecological Urbanism<br />
This year we want to narrow the scope of the exercise and go deeper in one of the lines of investigation namely that of the community kitchen and the role of neighbourhood food infrastructure.<br />
part of this hypothesis has been explored in a master thesis that was produced in the context of ‘De Stadsacademie’. Master thesis Neighborfood<br />
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=Madrid Agroecologico Living Lab/ Spain=<br />
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==Circular Economy in Food Retail==<br />
It is easier to imagine an apple being integrated into a circular system than most of the consumer goods that surround us. It might be easier, but we are still far away from achieving circular loops in the food sector. The reasons are multiple, some of them are related to the global chains in which our current food system is embedded. We propose a Living Lab based on the assumption that with shorter food chains and more direct relationships between production and consumption, a shift into a circularity paradigm would be more feasible. <br />
The Living Lab Is conceived as a space for co-generation of applied knowledge together with the cooperative supermarket LA OSA and with the support of the [https://ciecmadrid.es International Center for Circular Economy (CIEC) of the Municipality of Madrid]. The main goal is to boost mechanisms of circular economy, to reduce both packaging and food waste, but also to enhance the recovery and reuse of packaging. The Living Lab responds to an interest expressed by the cooperative and its members, some of whom tried to set up a working group on these matters.<br />
We assume that short food supply chains are better positioned to adopt circularity, and the living lab should help the Cooperative Supermarket to have a diagnosis of the situation and to envision ways to transform and improve it, with the support of the CIEC which in turn, provide coaching and support to create innovative ecosystems.<br />
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==Research questions== <br />
* Is the cooperative supermarket better positioned to reduce the use of plastics in the commercialization of food?<br />
* What has been the impact of the measures adopted to reduce food waste and packaging waste?<br />
* Which are the bottlenecks of a transition into a (close to) zero plastic and zero waste model? For which part of the food consumer goods would that be easier?<br />
* Do agroecological projects and short supply chains perform better in terms of circularity? Which are their potentials to achieve circularity and how can they be enhanced?<br />
* Which are the implications in terms of spatial requirements and organizational operations associated with a shorter change embedded in circularity?<br />
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==Research questions for remote students==<br />
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* What are examples of good practices to enhance circular loops in the food chain, focussing on the production-distribution linkages?<br />
* Which are the key factors to replicate practices of regenerative food production embedded in closed loops?<br />
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= A Living Lab for building a Local Food Strategy for the Bucharest District 6=<br />
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==Introduction== <br />
Sector 6 of Bucharest is an administrative unit with diverse quarters like Crângași, Drumul Taberei, Ghencea, Giulești, Militari, and Regie. The sector covers 38 square kilometers, housing a population of 325,759 as of December 2021. It aims to become a smart and green city, with strategic plans for urban development. For more detailed information, you can visit the Wikipedia page on Sector 6 of Bucharest.<br />
[[File:Sector 6.png|thumb|right]]<br />
Bucharest's District 6 is starting a sustainable food strategy aimed at enhancing local production, decreasing environmental impacts, and fortifying community connections. This initiative proposes the creation of a living lab—a collaborative environment where citizens, researchers, policymakers, and businesses unite to tackle complex challenges within the local food system. <br />
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Expected Outcomes:<br />
* A detailed map of District 6's food ecosystem, with key players and their interactions.<br />
* Defining general objectives aligning with community needs and sustainability ambitions.<br />
* A shared vision for District 6's future food system, leading to a strategic plan and scalable pilot projects.<br />
[[File:Sector6detail.png|thumb|right]]<br />
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==Objectives for local students==<br />
* Mapping the Local Food System: To catalog all participants in District 6's food system, including producers, distributors, retailers, consumers, and waste handlers, thereby identifying product flows, inefficiencies, and opportunities for sustainability.<br />
* Establishing General Objectives: To set comprehensive goals like reducing food transportation distances, improving food security, advocating for local and seasonal foods, and cutting down food waste.<br />
* Developing a Vision: To formulate a long-term outlook for District 6’s food system that embodies sustainability, community welfare, and economic health.<br />
* Creating a Strategy: To devise an actionable plan that includes innovative practices such as urban agriculture, food sharing initiatives, and circular economy principles, detailing both immediate and future steps, potential hurdles, and success indicators.<br />
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==Research questions for remote students==<br />
# Integration: How can District 6's food strategy integrate with the broader city-region for mutual sustainability benefits?<br />
# Formation: What are the necessary steps and key players for establishing an effective local food council at the district level?<br />
# Objectives: In a post-socialist capital's context such as District 6, what are the primary goals for a local food strategy?<br />
# Engagement: What are the most effective methods for engaging residents in the local food system strategy?<br />
[[File:Sector6market.png|thumb]]<br />
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=A Living Lab in Tartu, Estonia=<br />
Tartu (cultural capital of Europe 2024) is the second biggest city in Estonia and is located in the southeast part of the country. Agriculture is an important aspect of the county's development.<br />
<br />
This theme will focus on the expanding interest in Estonia in organic food production within a framework of sustainable farming, together with the Tartu County Food Strategy 2022-2030. The idea is to develop the Agricultural Park concept in the urban fringe of Tartu, which would serve as a place of organic production, agricultural innovation, education, economy, and bioeconomy, but would be also a potential place for recreation and act as a connector people and the city green and blue infrastructure. Two different student groups will focus on practical work, land use analysis, site-specific interventions, and working with different stakeholders, including a marginalised group of people from a care setting. De-institutionalised care is a recent move in Estonia, with people being removed from large care home settings to smaller, cosier groups in the community supported by care workers. However, they are not well integrated into the community, and work opportunities are low.<br />
<br />
===Urban food hub/living lab in Tartu===<br />
According to the Tartu County Food Strategy 2022-2030, Tartu county in Estonia is well known for its various public or private initiatives regarding food production at different scales. It is also known for its research on organic food, collaboration networks, and multiple food industry businesses. However, there is a lack of a common and consistent food strategy for the region. The authors of the report aim not only to consider organic farming principles but also to shorten product cycles in accordance with the ‘farm to table’ principle; localising production; strengthening networking activities; cooperating with local research and development units; and creating of a common brand, that would bring recognition to the county’s products. These aims should be done within EU frameworks in a socially, economically, culturally, and ecologically sustainable way, taking into consideration site-specific conditions and the complicated past of the Baltic countries and land reforms connected to it (such as the soviet era collectivisation process, re-establishing of the family farms as well as commercial agricultural farms and its impact on current approaches to agriculture). Following on from that, the aim is to understand the landscape spatial planning and design implications of the above-mentioned strategy. Understanding of local needs and conditions, and the values that local inhabitants hold on in the environment, culture, and economy. Participants will choose to work on the area of Mahekeskus (Organic Farming Centre) of the Estonian University of Life Sciences or find additional suitable spaces or spatial approaches for the topic.<br />
<br />
Local challenge: to understand the potential of Tartu city and county to become a food hub, including social, economic, cultural and ecological spatial challenges, namely, creating a joint food collaboration network in its social, cultural, and spatial dimensions. Promotion and marketing of locally produced food. Integrating people in care into the community through healthy activities or work based in the agricultural park.<br />
<br />
The students of the comprehensive planning course are collecting and preparing information to analyse the possibilities for creating a Food Hub close to Tartu town at and around the sustainable farming centre of the Estonian University of Life Sciences. They are aiming to collect existing legal land use data and analyse land use possibilities and limitations in them. This aims to result in initiating and discussing some ideas for the content of the Food Hub together with the Living Lab, that will be developed. It will have a follow-up in the Landscape Forum Tartu 2024 workshop on Foodscapes. The plan is to develop a further research project application for the Food Hub.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for local students==<br />
# What can be learned from the history regarding agriculture and urban agriculture in the Tartu region?<br />
# What are current municipal food and agricultural policies and how they are connected with spatial planning and management documents? How do these documents influence or suggest the potential to develop (peri-)urban agriculture in Tartu?<br />
# What are the ownership conditions of farmland around and within Tartu? What are different agricultural land-use types and practices (formal and informal)?<br />
# What are the social and cultural conditions and potentials to develop a (peri-)urban food hub or agricultural park in Tartu?<br />
# Who are the existing and potential stakeholders? What are their characteristics?<br />
# What is the potential for inclusion for those in care in the community placements <br />
<br />
Summary of analysis in the form of land-use and strategic limitations and possibilities, report of stakeholder mapping and/or interviews/questionnaires as well as an overview of initial ideas about food hub or landscape park based on Mahekeskus and other areas.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote students==<br />
# What is the current situation of urban food production in an EU country, comparing the Baltic countries with other areas? What influences it?<br />
# How can urban agriculture in small cities such as Tartu be strategically planned and promoted?<br />
Summary of analysis in the form of SWOT analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, as well as stakeholder mapping and/or interviews/questionnaires.<br />
<br />
==Spatial planning and design strategy across both student groups==<br />
# What are the existing spatial solutions unifying and enhancing food production in urban and peri-urban areas as well as connection with rural areas (such as the concept of agricultural parks).<br />
# What solutions can be adapted or implemented in Tartu county? How and why?<br />
# How can these areas be governed and managed in a sustainable, inclusive, and multifunctional way?<br />
# How can the interests of all defined stakeholders be strategically connected?<br />
<br />
Summary in the form of the strategic plan description and/or drawings/maps/plans</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=Living_labs_and_research_questions_2024&diff=669Living labs and research questions 20242024-02-23T09:02:48Z<p>Admin: /* Ghent "Agroecological Urbanism Future Heritage" Living Lab/ Belgium */</p>
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<div><br />
=Living Labs in development=<br />
The presented living lab subjects and questions are in development. If you participate in assignment mode, you can also define your own research question or the aim of your assignment. You need to send that in the survey you received before February 16, 2024. After that date, it is only possible to participate in the course in lecture mode.<br />
<br />
<br />
= Montpellier « Changes in a neighbourhood's* food environment with the arrival of a new tramway line » Living Lab /France=<br />
*Neighbourhood under definition, in partnership with INRAE and Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole<br />
<br />
==Context==<br />
Food environments can be defined as the “physical, economic, political and socio-cultural context in which consumers engage with the food system to make their decisions about acquiring, preparing and consuming food”.<br />
<br />
In contrast to the ‘consumer choice model’ (founded on the idea that awareness raising and education about better food choices will make people change their food behaviour), the ‘food environment approach’ recognises that the choices we make about food and the impacts they have are, to a significant degree, shaped by the contexts within which they are made. Following from that, it recognises that the most effective and equitable way to change food behaviours is to change the structural factors that drive food choice, among which are aspects of the built environment. As they affect access to food entry points, including the distance to food outlets, and the availability of physical infrastructures, such as public transport networks, etc.<br />
<br />
Local players can therefore act on the environment to encourage more sustainable and healthier eating habits, by improving accessibility to the entire food offer: shops, restaurants, markets, and points of sale.<br />
Montpellier's tramway network already comprises 4 lines. A 5th line, 20 km long, is currently under construction and will cross the city and serve the neighbourhood cities of Greater Montpellier by 2025. With this 5th line, the Metropole offers a new North/South-West diagonal to its network, linking its transport network even more finely and extensively.<br />
<br />
Urban development projects and other public policies (linked to transport or the commercial offer, for example) often modify food landscapes. Their impact on household food supply practices is, however, poorly understood, and may vary according to the social, demographic, and economic characteristics of populations and territories. To better understand these spatio-temporal dynamics, the first step is to describe and characterize food landscapes (or environments) and their evolution.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for local students==<br />
In a specific neighborhood of the Montpellier metropolitan area, the idea is to carry out a field survey to determine a diagnosis of food environments and how they are evolving: <br />
* Define the urban and social characteristics of the area in question<br />
* Mapping current food landscapes: the neighborhood food offer<br />
* Outlook on the evolution of these food landscapes with the arrival of the 5th tramway line<br />
* Recommendations for new developments around the tramway line<br />
This survey is part of a larger project, on a metropolitan scale, being carried out by a research team and players in Montpellier's Agroecological and Food Policy (Politique Agroécologique et Alimentaire).<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote students==<br />
* Review of literature and case studies on the impact of transport infrastructure projects on the evolution of food environments<br />
* Depending on the social and urban characteristics of the selected neighborhood: what ways can be found to improve its food environments?<br />
<br />
Mastering French to a certain extent is a preference since much of the references and stakeholder responses will be in French, a comparative case study of other countries can of course be carried out in English.<br />
<br />
=Warsaw “MOST Urban Farm” Living Lab -Poland=<br />
==Production and collaboration with local farmers==<br />
Short video presentation, Short pdf description 2023-01_MOST_LL_en, Extended description<br />
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FZvY1t1ptUOfIXTSJ8XrFWJecCt6WlrU/view?usp=sharing<br />
<br />
The Warsaw Urban Farm initiative was born out of the need to prepare the city for the upcoming effects of the environmental and food crises. Our goal is to create a local center for agro-ecological education and food production, and to develop and network future leaders in the field of sustainable food planning to contribute locally to food security and a healthier environment.<br />
To strengthen the city's resilience, we want to establish Warsaw's first farm (MOST), which will also be an incubator for further initiatives in the area of the sustainable food system of Warsaw and surrounding suburban and rural areas.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for the local students== <br />
* In addition to finances, what are the potential benefits of establishing the MOST farm in the selected location?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; analysis of spatial planning documents; field trip; spatial analysis; identifying key partners and stakeholders; identifying main problems and challenges faced by farmers operating in the selected area; SWOT analysis for the Warsaw agriculture of the upper Vistula)<br />
* What should be an economic model of the MOST farm?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trip; identifying main problems and challenges faced by farmers operating in the selected area; SWOT analysis for the Warsaw agriculture of the upper Vistula, developing an economic model )<br />
* Who are the stakeholders (municipality, neighbor community, involved institutions, and farmers) and what are their needs and influence?<br />
(methods: field trip; analysis of land ownership; identifying key partners and stakeholders; mapping all actors and their needs and power; define potential partnerships and alliances)<br />
* What is the attitude of local farmers towards urban agriculture initiatives, particularly MOST?<br />
(methods: field trip; mapping local farmers; interviews and questionnaires; designing a food hub)<br />
* What edible plants are the best to cultivate in MOST farm? Considering climate factors and socio-economic factors (production feasibility, retail). <br />
(methods: literature review; field trip; consultation with an expert)<br />
* What is the Warsaw municipality's attitude toward biodiversity? Is it only a cost of maintaining vacant lands or a food production opportunity?<br />
(methods: analysis of Municipality planning documents; interviews and questionnaires)<br />
* What are the regional rituals associated with agriculture and how to transfer them to an urban context?<br />
(methods: literature review; field trip; mapping local farmers; interviews and questionnaires; developing a proposal for an urban harvest celebration)<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for the remote students==<br />
* What should the coop urban farm include in its programme? What are the potential benefits (social, economic, environmental, others), and how to increase them?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trips)<br />
* What are the models of coop urban farms around the world? (Economic models, inner organization structures).<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trips)<br />
* What are the city's policies towards vacant lands considering its biodiversity and food production opportunities?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; analysis of Municipality planning documents; interviews and questionnaires)<br />
<br />
=Ghent "Agroecological Urbanism Future Heritage" Living Lab - Belgium=<br />
Ghent University in collaboration with De Stadsacademie*, STA.M, ILVO<br />
De Stadsacademie is a collaboratorium dedicated to transdisciplinary research and teaching on complex and urgent sustainability challenges faced by the city and the University of Ghent. De Stadsacademie works on several ‘trajectories’ that define the thematic scope of its work over a series of years.<br />
<br />
==Starting with the Kitchen. Rethinking neighbourhood food systems from an agroecological perspective==<br />
To rethink and transform urban local food systems, the kitchen is a good place to start. Even in the highly commodified urban food system of a city like Ghent, the kitchen entertains a strong relation of proximity to the places of eating. That is true for the individual kitchens at home but is true for collective kitchen infrastructure. The kitchen is not only the place where food is prepared, It is also a place in which logic of consumption and production meet. This also makes the kitchen a place of potential solidarity between producers and consumers.<br />
In this year’s working cycle of the Living Lab, we will explore the agroecological transformation of neighbourhood food systems through the perspective of the community kitchen in the Bloemekenswijk in Ghent. While the Bloemekenswijk is historically part of the periphery of Ghent, it is today subject to new dynamics of urbanization that reposition the neighbourhood within the urban agglomeration and set up a new dialogue between local and supra-local relations. This gives an opportunity to think about the role of neighbourhood infrastructure in general and food infrastructure in particular. The neighbourhood contains an array of existing food initiatives that can be the starting point of an agroecological transformation of the food system. The focus will be in particular on the Bloemekenswijk, however, will include the documentation of initiatives in other neighbourhoods as well.<br />
<br />
We will be exploring different transformative pathways together with actors within the neighbourhood.<br />
* the possible connection of neighbourhood initiatives to farmland owned by the Public Center for Social Welfare (OCMW)<br />
* the possible coproduction between the existing social economy cluster (VZW Ateljee & Balenmagazijn) with social economy initiatives active in food production (De Loods in Aalst)<br />
* the possible creation of a food hub, supplying food to existing neighbourhood restaurants, institutional canteens, school kitchens, etc.<br />
* the transformation of the existing market (Van Beverenplein) as a public site of local food supply in co-creation with neighbourhood food initiatives<br />
* the reactivation of the bakery on the psychiatric campus Dr. Guislain<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote student==<br />
Students can choose between track A (literature review) or B (case study)<br />
===A.Literature review on neighborhood food systems and what makes them transformative===<br />
* What are the main drivers behind the creation of neighborhood food systems?<br />
* How can place-based initiatives be used to define solidarities that don’t remain limited to the local (and move beyond the local trap (Purcell 2006))?<br />
* How do local initiatives cope with the tension between ecological and social goals?<br />
* How can neighbourhood infrastructure be retooled to link up with local producers? What are the organizational and infrastructural implications of relying on direct supply?<br />
* How dependent are food support initiatives on surplus food and how do they seek to break that dependency?<br />
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===B.Documentation, discussion of existing practices connecting neighbourhood food networks and infrastructures to local suppliers, and questions of access to land?===<br />
Examples around public catering within public institutes (schools, hospitals, care facilities…) that make a direct connection between public food provisioning, agroecological farmers, and land management.<br />
Examples of neighbourhood-based initiatives around food support and place-based solidarity in connection with agroecological farmers. We are particularly interested in community kitchen initiatives building a food sovereignty agenda together with agroecological producers.<br />
<br />
==The General Context of the Ghent Living Lab and Earlier Work==<br />
The urban food policy of the City of Ghent, Gent en Garde, has been the subject of international attention including several prestigious prizes. At the same time, the systematic sale of public farmland in the peri-urban fringe of Ghent has alienated new and traditional farmers who are upset about the systematic loss of farmland. Farmers are rapidly disappearing from the peri-urban fringe, and new farmers face great difficulty in establishing themselves. <br />
Within the context of De Stadsacademie* civil society actors, farmers, urban civil servants, students and researchers have been engaged in the development of alternative policies regarding publicly owned farmland, and agricultural heritage more generally. The land currently being sold off by the city is the fruit of historical investment in urban agricultural heritage that has been handed down over several generations and is part of the permanent improvements (infrastructure, public space, heritage landscapes, drainage systems, etc.) that made farming possible.<br />
Contemporary urban constituencies seem to care little for the future of this publicly owned farmland. In the political debate on the sale of public land urban social goals are played against ecological concerns and the protection of local farming activities. The land is presented as ‘fragmented’ and off little public interest, and sold to finance the development of residential care facilities for the elderly. The campaign against the sale of public farmland has led to a moratorium on further sales in the neighbouring municipalities of Ghent. in the meantime, the city is preparing a vision on Agricultural land use in the city and the wider region. Within De Stadsacademie we want to enter into a dialogue with parties that could help to articulate a shared agenda regarding the way in which the public ownership of farmland could be leveraged to accelerate an agroecological food transition. This will happen in the framework of an agroecological urbanism (www.agroecologicalurbanism.org), which is a way of urbanizing that actively supports the care for soils and the growing of food in an equitable and ecologically sustainable way. We will try to imagine new forms of urban infrastructure and future heritage that contribute to the local support of agroecological farmers and re-inscribe the farming activities within a new urban geography of farming.<br />
Last year we worked within the living lab on various fronts, exploring possible connections between local food policy initiatives and public land management. The results of last year’s local work in the living lab were documented in a series of video portraits: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5xVUeu3UV65ME7uF9RoRoNefUcVm3ba<br />
In July 2023 ‘De Stadacademie’ hosted the 2nd AESOP4FOOD Intensive Programme. A detailed programme of the IP can be found here: Programme IP Ghent - Future Heritage_Agroecological Urbanism<br />
This year we want to narrow the scope of the exercise and go deeper in one of the lines of investigation namely that of the community kitchen and the role of neighbourhood food infrastructure.<br />
part of this hypothesis has been explored in a master thesis that was produced in the context of ‘De Stadsacademie’. Master thesis Neighborfood<br />
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=Madrid Agroecologico Living Lab/ Spain=<br />
<br />
==Circular Economy in Food Retail==<br />
It is easier to imagine an apple being integrated into a circular system than most of the consumer goods that surround us. It might be easier, but we are still far away from achieving circular loops in the food sector. The reasons are multiple, some of them are related to the global chains in which our current food system is embedded. We propose a Living Lab based on the assumption that with shorter food chains and more direct relationships between production and consumption, a shift into a circularity paradigm would be more feasible. <br />
The Living Lab Is conceived as a space for co-generation of applied knowledge together with the cooperative supermarket LA OSA and with the support of the [https://ciecmadrid.es International Center for Circular Economy (CIEC) of the Municipality of Madrid]. The main goal is to boost mechanisms of circular economy, to reduce both packaging and food waste, but also to enhance the recovery and reuse of packaging. The Living Lab responds to an interest expressed by the cooperative and its members, some of whom tried to set up a working group on these matters.<br />
We assume that short food supply chains are better positioned to adopt circularity, and the living lab should help the Cooperative Supermarket to have a diagnosis of the situation and to envision ways to transform and improve it, with the support of the CIEC which in turn, provide coaching and support to create innovative ecosystems.<br />
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==Research questions== <br />
* Is the cooperative supermarket better positioned to reduce the use of plastics in the commercialization of food?<br />
* What has been the impact of the measures adopted to reduce food waste and packaging waste?<br />
* Which are the bottlenecks of a transition into a (close to) zero plastic and zero waste model? For which part of the food consumer goods would that be easier?<br />
* Do agroecological projects and short supply chains perform better in terms of circularity? Which are their potentials to achieve circularity and how can they be enhanced?<br />
* Which are the implications in terms of spatial requirements and organizational operations associated with a shorter change embedded in circularity?<br />
<br />
==Research questions for remote students==<br />
<br />
* What are examples of good practices to enhance circular loops in the food chain, focussing on the production-distribution linkages?<br />
* Which are the key factors to replicate practices of regenerative food production embedded in closed loops?<br />
<br />
<br />
= A Living Lab for building a Local Food Strategy for the Bucharest District 6=<br />
<br />
==Introduction== <br />
Sector 6 of Bucharest is an administrative unit with diverse quarters like Crângași, Drumul Taberei, Ghencea, Giulești, Militari, and Regie. The sector covers 38 square kilometers, housing a population of 325,759 as of December 2021. It aims to become a smart and green city, with strategic plans for urban development. For more detailed information, you can visit the Wikipedia page on Sector 6 of Bucharest.<br />
[[File:Sector 6.png|thumb|right]]<br />
Bucharest's District 6 is starting a sustainable food strategy aimed at enhancing local production, decreasing environmental impacts, and fortifying community connections. This initiative proposes the creation of a living lab—a collaborative environment where citizens, researchers, policymakers, and businesses unite to tackle complex challenges within the local food system. <br />
<br />
Expected Outcomes:<br />
* A detailed map of District 6's food ecosystem, with key players and their interactions.<br />
* Defining general objectives aligning with community needs and sustainability ambitions.<br />
* A shared vision for District 6's future food system, leading to a strategic plan and scalable pilot projects.<br />
[[File:Sector6detail.png|thumb|right]]<br />
<br />
==Objectives for local students==<br />
* Mapping the Local Food System: To catalog all participants in District 6's food system, including producers, distributors, retailers, consumers, and waste handlers, thereby identifying product flows, inefficiencies, and opportunities for sustainability.<br />
* Establishing General Objectives: To set comprehensive goals like reducing food transportation distances, improving food security, advocating for local and seasonal foods, and cutting down food waste.<br />
* Developing a Vision: To formulate a long-term outlook for District 6’s food system that embodies sustainability, community welfare, and economic health.<br />
* Creating a Strategy: To devise an actionable plan that includes innovative practices such as urban agriculture, food sharing initiatives, and circular economy principles, detailing both immediate and future steps, potential hurdles, and success indicators.<br />
<br />
==Research questions for remote students==<br />
# Integration: How can District 6's food strategy integrate with the broader city-region for mutual sustainability benefits?<br />
# Formation: What are the necessary steps and key players for establishing an effective local food council at the district level?<br />
# Objectives: In a post-socialist capital's context such as District 6, what are the primary goals for a local food strategy?<br />
# Engagement: What are the most effective methods for engaging residents in the local food system strategy?<br />
[[File:Sector6market.png|thumb]]<br />
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=A Living Lab in Tartu, Estonia=<br />
Tartu (cultural capital of Europe 2024) is the second biggest city in Estonia and is located in the southeast part of the country. Agriculture is an important aspect of the county's development.<br />
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This theme will focus on the expanding interest in Estonia in organic food production within a framework of sustainable farming, together with the Tartu County Food Strategy 2022-2030. The idea is to develop the Agricultural Park concept in the urban fringe of Tartu, which would serve as a place of organic production, agricultural innovation, education, economy, and bioeconomy, but would be also a potential place for recreation and act as a connector people and the city green and blue infrastructure. Two different student groups will focus on practical work, land use analysis, site-specific interventions, and working with different stakeholders, including a marginalised group of people from a care setting. De-institutionalised care is a recent move in Estonia, with people being removed from large care home settings to smaller, cosier groups in the community supported by care workers. However, they are not well integrated into the community, and work opportunities are low.<br />
<br />
===Urban food hub/living lab in Tartu===<br />
According to the Tartu County Food Strategy 2022-2030, Tartu county in Estonia is well known for its various public or private initiatives regarding food production at different scales. It is also known for its research on organic food, collaboration networks, and multiple food industry businesses. However, there is a lack of a common and consistent food strategy for the region. The authors of the report aim not only to consider organic farming principles but also to shorten product cycles in accordance with the ‘farm to table’ principle; localising production; strengthening networking activities; cooperating with local research and development units; and creating of a common brand, that would bring recognition to the county’s products. These aims should be done within EU frameworks in a socially, economically, culturally, and ecologically sustainable way, taking into consideration site-specific conditions and the complicated past of the Baltic countries and land reforms connected to it (such as the soviet era collectivisation process, re-establishing of the family farms as well as commercial agricultural farms and its impact on current approaches to agriculture). Following on from that, the aim is to understand the landscape spatial planning and design implications of the above-mentioned strategy. Understanding of local needs and conditions, and the values that local inhabitants hold on in the environment, culture, and economy. Participants will choose to work on the area of Mahekeskus (Organic Farming Centre) of the Estonian University of Life Sciences or find additional suitable spaces or spatial approaches for the topic.<br />
<br />
Local challenge: to understand the potential of Tartu city and county to become a food hub, including social, economic, cultural and ecological spatial challenges, namely, creating a joint food collaboration network in its social, cultural, and spatial dimensions. Promotion and marketing of locally produced food. Integrating people in care into the community through healthy activities or work based in the agricultural park.<br />
<br />
The students of the comprehensive planning course are collecting and preparing information to analyse the possibilities for creating a Food Hub close to Tartu town at and around the sustainable farming centre of the Estonian University of Life Sciences. They are aiming to collect existing legal land use data and analyse land use possibilities and limitations in them. This aims to result in initiating and discussing some ideas for the content of the Food Hub together with the Living Lab, that will be developed. It will have a follow-up in the Landscape Forum Tartu 2024 workshop on Foodscapes. The plan is to develop a further research project application for the Food Hub.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for local students==<br />
# What can be learned from the history regarding agriculture and urban agriculture in the Tartu region?<br />
# What are current municipal food and agricultural policies and how they are connected with spatial planning and management documents? How do these documents influence or suggest the potential to develop (peri-)urban agriculture in Tartu?<br />
# What are the ownership conditions of farmland around and within Tartu? What are different agricultural land-use types and practices (formal and informal)?<br />
# What are the social and cultural conditions and potentials to develop a (peri-)urban food hub or agricultural park in Tartu?<br />
# Who are the existing and potential stakeholders? What are their characteristics?<br />
# What is the potential for inclusion for those in care in the community placements <br />
<br />
Summary of analysis in the form of land-use and strategic limitations and possibilities, report of stakeholder mapping and/or interviews/questionnaires as well as an overview of initial ideas about food hub or landscape park based on Mahekeskus and other areas.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote students==<br />
# What is the current situation of urban food production in an EU country, comparing the Baltic countries with other areas? What influences it?<br />
# How can urban agriculture in small cities such as Tartu be strategically planned and promoted?<br />
Summary of analysis in the form of SWOT analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, as well as stakeholder mapping and/or interviews/questionnaires.<br />
<br />
==Spatial planning and design strategy across both student groups==<br />
# What are the existing spatial solutions unifying and enhancing food production in urban and peri-urban areas as well as connection with rural areas (such as the concept of agricultural parks).<br />
# What solutions can be adapted or implemented in Tartu county? How and why?<br />
# How can these areas be governed and managed in a sustainable, inclusive, and multifunctional way?<br />
# How can the interests of all defined stakeholders be strategically connected?<br />
<br />
Summary in the form of the strategic plan description and/or drawings/maps/plans</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=Living_labs_and_research_questions_2024&diff=668Living labs and research questions 20242024-02-23T09:02:24Z<p>Admin: /* Warsaw “MOST Urban Farm” Living Lab/Poland */</p>
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=Living Labs in development=<br />
The presented living lab subjects and questions are in development. If you participate in assignment mode, you can also define your own research question or the aim of your assignment. You need to send that in the survey you received before February 16, 2024. After that date, it is only possible to participate in the course in lecture mode.<br />
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= Montpellier « Changes in a neighbourhood's* food environment with the arrival of a new tramway line » Living Lab /France=<br />
*Neighbourhood under definition, in partnership with INRAE and Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole<br />
<br />
==Context==<br />
Food environments can be defined as the “physical, economic, political and socio-cultural context in which consumers engage with the food system to make their decisions about acquiring, preparing and consuming food”.<br />
<br />
In contrast to the ‘consumer choice model’ (founded on the idea that awareness raising and education about better food choices will make people change their food behaviour), the ‘food environment approach’ recognises that the choices we make about food and the impacts they have are, to a significant degree, shaped by the contexts within which they are made. Following from that, it recognises that the most effective and equitable way to change food behaviours is to change the structural factors that drive food choice, among which are aspects of the built environment. As they affect access to food entry points, including the distance to food outlets, and the availability of physical infrastructures, such as public transport networks, etc.<br />
<br />
Local players can therefore act on the environment to encourage more sustainable and healthier eating habits, by improving accessibility to the entire food offer: shops, restaurants, markets, and points of sale.<br />
Montpellier's tramway network already comprises 4 lines. A 5th line, 20 km long, is currently under construction and will cross the city and serve the neighbourhood cities of Greater Montpellier by 2025. With this 5th line, the Metropole offers a new North/South-West diagonal to its network, linking its transport network even more finely and extensively.<br />
<br />
Urban development projects and other public policies (linked to transport or the commercial offer, for example) often modify food landscapes. Their impact on household food supply practices is, however, poorly understood, and may vary according to the social, demographic, and economic characteristics of populations and territories. To better understand these spatio-temporal dynamics, the first step is to describe and characterize food landscapes (or environments) and their evolution.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for local students==<br />
In a specific neighborhood of the Montpellier metropolitan area, the idea is to carry out a field survey to determine a diagnosis of food environments and how they are evolving: <br />
* Define the urban and social characteristics of the area in question<br />
* Mapping current food landscapes: the neighborhood food offer<br />
* Outlook on the evolution of these food landscapes with the arrival of the 5th tramway line<br />
* Recommendations for new developments around the tramway line<br />
This survey is part of a larger project, on a metropolitan scale, being carried out by a research team and players in Montpellier's Agroecological and Food Policy (Politique Agroécologique et Alimentaire).<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote students==<br />
* Review of literature and case studies on the impact of transport infrastructure projects on the evolution of food environments<br />
* Depending on the social and urban characteristics of the selected neighborhood: what ways can be found to improve its food environments?<br />
<br />
Mastering French to a certain extent is a preference since much of the references and stakeholder responses will be in French, a comparative case study of other countries can of course be carried out in English.<br />
<br />
=Warsaw “MOST Urban Farm” Living Lab -Poland=<br />
==Production and collaboration with local farmers==<br />
Short video presentation, Short pdf description 2023-01_MOST_LL_en, Extended description<br />
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FZvY1t1ptUOfIXTSJ8XrFWJecCt6WlrU/view?usp=sharing<br />
<br />
The Warsaw Urban Farm initiative was born out of the need to prepare the city for the upcoming effects of the environmental and food crises. Our goal is to create a local center for agro-ecological education and food production, and to develop and network future leaders in the field of sustainable food planning to contribute locally to food security and a healthier environment.<br />
To strengthen the city's resilience, we want to establish Warsaw's first farm (MOST), which will also be an incubator for further initiatives in the area of the sustainable food system of Warsaw and surrounding suburban and rural areas.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for the local students== <br />
* In addition to finances, what are the potential benefits of establishing the MOST farm in the selected location?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; analysis of spatial planning documents; field trip; spatial analysis; identifying key partners and stakeholders; identifying main problems and challenges faced by farmers operating in the selected area; SWOT analysis for the Warsaw agriculture of the upper Vistula)<br />
* What should be an economic model of the MOST farm?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trip; identifying main problems and challenges faced by farmers operating in the selected area; SWOT analysis for the Warsaw agriculture of the upper Vistula, developing an economic model )<br />
* Who are the stakeholders (municipality, neighbor community, involved institutions, and farmers) and what are their needs and influence?<br />
(methods: field trip; analysis of land ownership; identifying key partners and stakeholders; mapping all actors and their needs and power; define potential partnerships and alliances)<br />
* What is the attitude of local farmers towards urban agriculture initiatives, particularly MOST?<br />
(methods: field trip; mapping local farmers; interviews and questionnaires; designing a food hub)<br />
* What edible plants are the best to cultivate in MOST farm? Considering climate factors and socio-economic factors (production feasibility, retail). <br />
(methods: literature review; field trip; consultation with an expert)<br />
* What is the Warsaw municipality's attitude toward biodiversity? Is it only a cost of maintaining vacant lands or a food production opportunity?<br />
(methods: analysis of Municipality planning documents; interviews and questionnaires)<br />
* What are the regional rituals associated with agriculture and how to transfer them to an urban context?<br />
(methods: literature review; field trip; mapping local farmers; interviews and questionnaires; developing a proposal for an urban harvest celebration)<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for the remote students==<br />
* What should the coop urban farm include in its programme? What are the potential benefits (social, economic, environmental, others), and how to increase them?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trips)<br />
* What are the models of coop urban farms around the world? (Economic models, inner organization structures).<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trips)<br />
* What are the city's policies towards vacant lands considering its biodiversity and food production opportunities?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; analysis of Municipality planning documents; interviews and questionnaires)<br />
<br />
=Ghent "Agroecological Urbanism Future Heritage" Living Lab/ Belgium=<br />
Ghent University in collaboration with De Stadsacademie*, STA.M, ILVO<br />
De Stadsacademie is a collaboratorium dedicated to transdisciplinary research and teaching on complex and urgent sustainability challenges faced by the city and the University of Ghent. De Stadsacademie works on several ‘trajectories’ that define the thematic scope of its work over a series of years.<br />
<br />
==Starting with the Kitchen. Rethinking neighbourhood food systems from an agroecological perspective==<br />
To rethink and transform urban local food systems, the kitchen is a good place to start. Even in the highly commodified urban food system of a city like Ghent, the kitchen entertains a strong relation of proximity to the places of eating. That is true for the individual kitchens at home but is true for collective kitchen infrastructure. The kitchen is not only the place where food is prepared, It is also a place in which logic of consumption and production meet. This also makes the kitchen a place of potential solidarity between producers and consumers.<br />
In this year’s working cycle of the Living Lab, we will explore the agroecological transformation of neighbourhood food systems through the perspective of the community kitchen in the Bloemekenswijk in Ghent. While the Bloemekenswijk is historically part of the periphery of Ghent, it is today subject to new dynamics of urbanization that reposition the neighbourhood within the urban agglomeration and set up a new dialogue between local and supra-local relations. This gives an opportunity to think about the role of neighbourhood infrastructure in general and food infrastructure in particular. The neighbourhood contains an array of existing food initiatives that can be the starting point of an agroecological transformation of the food system. The focus will be in particular on the Bloemekenswijk, however, will include the documentation of initiatives in other neighbourhoods as well.<br />
<br />
We will be exploring different transformative pathways together with actors within the neighbourhood.<br />
* the possible connection of neighbourhood initiatives to farmland owned by the Public Center for Social Welfare (OCMW)<br />
* the possible coproduction between the existing social economy cluster (VZW Ateljee & Balenmagazijn) with social economy initiatives active in food production (De Loods in Aalst)<br />
* the possible creation of a food hub, supplying food to existing neighbourhood restaurants, institutional canteens, school kitchens, etc.<br />
* the transformation of the existing market (Van Beverenplein) as a public site of local food supply in co-creation with neighbourhood food initiatives<br />
* the reactivation of the bakery on the psychiatric campus Dr. Guislain<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote student==<br />
Students can choose between track A (literature review) or B (case study)<br />
===A.Literature review on neighborhood food systems and what makes them transformative===<br />
* What are the main drivers behind the creation of neighborhood food systems?<br />
* How can place-based initiatives be used to define solidarities that don’t remain limited to the local (and move beyond the local trap (Purcell 2006))?<br />
* How do local initiatives cope with the tension between ecological and social goals?<br />
* How can neighbourhood infrastructure be retooled to link up with local producers? What are the organizational and infrastructural implications of relying on direct supply?<br />
* How dependent are food support initiatives on surplus food and how do they seek to break that dependency?<br />
<br />
===B.Documentation, discussion of existing practices connecting neighbourhood food networks and infrastructures to local suppliers, and questions of access to land?===<br />
Examples around public catering within public institutes (schools, hospitals, care facilities…) that make a direct connection between public food provisioning, agroecological farmers, and land management.<br />
Examples of neighbourhood-based initiatives around food support and place-based solidarity in connection with agroecological farmers. We are particularly interested in community kitchen initiatives building a food sovereignty agenda together with agroecological producers.<br />
<br />
==The General Context of the Ghent Living Lab and Earlier Work==<br />
The urban food policy of the City of Ghent, Gent en Garde, has been the subject of international attention including several prestigious prizes. At the same time, the systematic sale of public farmland in the peri-urban fringe of Ghent has alienated new and traditional farmers who are upset about the systematic loss of farmland. Farmers are rapidly disappearing from the peri-urban fringe, and new farmers face great difficulty in establishing themselves. <br />
Within the context of De Stadsacademie* civil society actors, farmers, urban civil servants, students and researchers have been engaged in the development of alternative policies regarding publicly owned farmland, and agricultural heritage more generally. The land currently being sold off by the city is the fruit of historical investment in urban agricultural heritage that has been handed down over several generations and is part of the permanent improvements (infrastructure, public space, heritage landscapes, drainage systems, etc.) that made farming possible.<br />
Contemporary urban constituencies seem to care little for the future of this publicly owned farmland. In the political debate on the sale of public land urban social goals are played against ecological concerns and the protection of local farming activities. The land is presented as ‘fragmented’ and off little public interest, and sold to finance the development of residential care facilities for the elderly. The campaign against the sale of public farmland has led to a moratorium on further sales in the neighbouring municipalities of Ghent. in the meantime, the city is preparing a vision on Agricultural land use in the city and the wider region. Within De Stadsacademie we want to enter into a dialogue with parties that could help to articulate a shared agenda regarding the way in which the public ownership of farmland could be leveraged to accelerate an agroecological food transition. This will happen in the framework of an agroecological urbanism (www.agroecologicalurbanism.org), which is a way of urbanizing that actively supports the care for soils and the growing of food in an equitable and ecologically sustainable way. We will try to imagine new forms of urban infrastructure and future heritage that contribute to the local support of agroecological farmers and re-inscribe the farming activities within a new urban geography of farming.<br />
Last year we worked within the living lab on various fronts, exploring possible connections between local food policy initiatives and public land management. The results of last year’s local work in the living lab were documented in a series of video portraits: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5xVUeu3UV65ME7uF9RoRoNefUcVm3ba<br />
In July 2023 ‘De Stadacademie’ hosted the 2nd AESOP4FOOD Intensive Programme. A detailed programme of the IP can be found here: Programme IP Ghent - Future Heritage_Agroecological Urbanism<br />
This year we want to narrow the scope of the exercise and go deeper in one of the lines of investigation namely that of the community kitchen and the role of neighbourhood food infrastructure.<br />
part of this hypothesis has been explored in a master thesis that was produced in the context of ‘De Stadsacademie’. Master thesis Neighborfood<br />
<br />
=Madrid Agroecologico Living Lab/ Spain=<br />
<br />
==Circular Economy in Food Retail==<br />
It is easier to imagine an apple being integrated into a circular system than most of the consumer goods that surround us. It might be easier, but we are still far away from achieving circular loops in the food sector. The reasons are multiple, some of them are related to the global chains in which our current food system is embedded. We propose a Living Lab based on the assumption that with shorter food chains and more direct relationships between production and consumption, a shift into a circularity paradigm would be more feasible. <br />
The Living Lab Is conceived as a space for co-generation of applied knowledge together with the cooperative supermarket LA OSA and with the support of the [https://ciecmadrid.es International Center for Circular Economy (CIEC) of the Municipality of Madrid]. The main goal is to boost mechanisms of circular economy, to reduce both packaging and food waste, but also to enhance the recovery and reuse of packaging. The Living Lab responds to an interest expressed by the cooperative and its members, some of whom tried to set up a working group on these matters.<br />
We assume that short food supply chains are better positioned to adopt circularity, and the living lab should help the Cooperative Supermarket to have a diagnosis of the situation and to envision ways to transform and improve it, with the support of the CIEC which in turn, provide coaching and support to create innovative ecosystems.<br />
<br />
==Research questions== <br />
* Is the cooperative supermarket better positioned to reduce the use of plastics in the commercialization of food?<br />
* What has been the impact of the measures adopted to reduce food waste and packaging waste?<br />
* Which are the bottlenecks of a transition into a (close to) zero plastic and zero waste model? For which part of the food consumer goods would that be easier?<br />
* Do agroecological projects and short supply chains perform better in terms of circularity? Which are their potentials to achieve circularity and how can they be enhanced?<br />
* Which are the implications in terms of spatial requirements and organizational operations associated with a shorter change embedded in circularity?<br />
<br />
==Research questions for remote students==<br />
<br />
* What are examples of good practices to enhance circular loops in the food chain, focussing on the production-distribution linkages?<br />
* Which are the key factors to replicate practices of regenerative food production embedded in closed loops?<br />
<br />
<br />
= A Living Lab for building a Local Food Strategy for the Bucharest District 6=<br />
<br />
==Introduction== <br />
Sector 6 of Bucharest is an administrative unit with diverse quarters like Crângași, Drumul Taberei, Ghencea, Giulești, Militari, and Regie. The sector covers 38 square kilometers, housing a population of 325,759 as of December 2021. It aims to become a smart and green city, with strategic plans for urban development. For more detailed information, you can visit the Wikipedia page on Sector 6 of Bucharest.<br />
[[File:Sector 6.png|thumb|right]]<br />
Bucharest's District 6 is starting a sustainable food strategy aimed at enhancing local production, decreasing environmental impacts, and fortifying community connections. This initiative proposes the creation of a living lab—a collaborative environment where citizens, researchers, policymakers, and businesses unite to tackle complex challenges within the local food system. <br />
<br />
Expected Outcomes:<br />
* A detailed map of District 6's food ecosystem, with key players and their interactions.<br />
* Defining general objectives aligning with community needs and sustainability ambitions.<br />
* A shared vision for District 6's future food system, leading to a strategic plan and scalable pilot projects.<br />
[[File:Sector6detail.png|thumb|right]]<br />
<br />
==Objectives for local students==<br />
* Mapping the Local Food System: To catalog all participants in District 6's food system, including producers, distributors, retailers, consumers, and waste handlers, thereby identifying product flows, inefficiencies, and opportunities for sustainability.<br />
* Establishing General Objectives: To set comprehensive goals like reducing food transportation distances, improving food security, advocating for local and seasonal foods, and cutting down food waste.<br />
* Developing a Vision: To formulate a long-term outlook for District 6’s food system that embodies sustainability, community welfare, and economic health.<br />
* Creating a Strategy: To devise an actionable plan that includes innovative practices such as urban agriculture, food sharing initiatives, and circular economy principles, detailing both immediate and future steps, potential hurdles, and success indicators.<br />
<br />
==Research questions for remote students==<br />
# Integration: How can District 6's food strategy integrate with the broader city-region for mutual sustainability benefits?<br />
# Formation: What are the necessary steps and key players for establishing an effective local food council at the district level?<br />
# Objectives: In a post-socialist capital's context such as District 6, what are the primary goals for a local food strategy?<br />
# Engagement: What are the most effective methods for engaging residents in the local food system strategy?<br />
[[File:Sector6market.png|thumb]]<br />
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=A Living Lab in Tartu, Estonia=<br />
Tartu (cultural capital of Europe 2024) is the second biggest city in Estonia and is located in the southeast part of the country. Agriculture is an important aspect of the county's development.<br />
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This theme will focus on the expanding interest in Estonia in organic food production within a framework of sustainable farming, together with the Tartu County Food Strategy 2022-2030. The idea is to develop the Agricultural Park concept in the urban fringe of Tartu, which would serve as a place of organic production, agricultural innovation, education, economy, and bioeconomy, but would be also a potential place for recreation and act as a connector people and the city green and blue infrastructure. Two different student groups will focus on practical work, land use analysis, site-specific interventions, and working with different stakeholders, including a marginalised group of people from a care setting. De-institutionalised care is a recent move in Estonia, with people being removed from large care home settings to smaller, cosier groups in the community supported by care workers. However, they are not well integrated into the community, and work opportunities are low.<br />
<br />
===Urban food hub/living lab in Tartu===<br />
According to the Tartu County Food Strategy 2022-2030, Tartu county in Estonia is well known for its various public or private initiatives regarding food production at different scales. It is also known for its research on organic food, collaboration networks, and multiple food industry businesses. However, there is a lack of a common and consistent food strategy for the region. The authors of the report aim not only to consider organic farming principles but also to shorten product cycles in accordance with the ‘farm to table’ principle; localising production; strengthening networking activities; cooperating with local research and development units; and creating of a common brand, that would bring recognition to the county’s products. These aims should be done within EU frameworks in a socially, economically, culturally, and ecologically sustainable way, taking into consideration site-specific conditions and the complicated past of the Baltic countries and land reforms connected to it (such as the soviet era collectivisation process, re-establishing of the family farms as well as commercial agricultural farms and its impact on current approaches to agriculture). Following on from that, the aim is to understand the landscape spatial planning and design implications of the above-mentioned strategy. Understanding of local needs and conditions, and the values that local inhabitants hold on in the environment, culture, and economy. Participants will choose to work on the area of Mahekeskus (Organic Farming Centre) of the Estonian University of Life Sciences or find additional suitable spaces or spatial approaches for the topic.<br />
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Local challenge: to understand the potential of Tartu city and county to become a food hub, including social, economic, cultural and ecological spatial challenges, namely, creating a joint food collaboration network in its social, cultural, and spatial dimensions. Promotion and marketing of locally produced food. Integrating people in care into the community through healthy activities or work based in the agricultural park.<br />
<br />
The students of the comprehensive planning course are collecting and preparing information to analyse the possibilities for creating a Food Hub close to Tartu town at and around the sustainable farming centre of the Estonian University of Life Sciences. They are aiming to collect existing legal land use data and analyse land use possibilities and limitations in them. This aims to result in initiating and discussing some ideas for the content of the Food Hub together with the Living Lab, that will be developed. It will have a follow-up in the Landscape Forum Tartu 2024 workshop on Foodscapes. The plan is to develop a further research project application for the Food Hub.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for local students==<br />
# What can be learned from the history regarding agriculture and urban agriculture in the Tartu region?<br />
# What are current municipal food and agricultural policies and how they are connected with spatial planning and management documents? How do these documents influence or suggest the potential to develop (peri-)urban agriculture in Tartu?<br />
# What are the ownership conditions of farmland around and within Tartu? What are different agricultural land-use types and practices (formal and informal)?<br />
# What are the social and cultural conditions and potentials to develop a (peri-)urban food hub or agricultural park in Tartu?<br />
# Who are the existing and potential stakeholders? What are their characteristics?<br />
# What is the potential for inclusion for those in care in the community placements <br />
<br />
Summary of analysis in the form of land-use and strategic limitations and possibilities, report of stakeholder mapping and/or interviews/questionnaires as well as an overview of initial ideas about food hub or landscape park based on Mahekeskus and other areas.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote students==<br />
# What is the current situation of urban food production in an EU country, comparing the Baltic countries with other areas? What influences it?<br />
# How can urban agriculture in small cities such as Tartu be strategically planned and promoted?<br />
Summary of analysis in the form of SWOT analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, as well as stakeholder mapping and/or interviews/questionnaires.<br />
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==Spatial planning and design strategy across both student groups==<br />
# What are the existing spatial solutions unifying and enhancing food production in urban and peri-urban areas as well as connection with rural areas (such as the concept of agricultural parks).<br />
# What solutions can be adapted or implemented in Tartu county? How and why?<br />
# How can these areas be governed and managed in a sustainable, inclusive, and multifunctional way?<br />
# How can the interests of all defined stakeholders be strategically connected?<br />
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=Living Labs in development=<br />
The presented living lab subjects and questions are in development. If you participate in assignment mode, you can also define your own research question or the aim of your assignment. You need to send that in the survey you received before February 16, 2024. After that date, it is only possible to participate in the course in lecture mode.<br />
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= Montpellier « Changes in a neighbourhood's* food environment with the arrival of a new tramway line » Living Lab /France=<br />
*Neighbourhood under definition, in partnership with INRAE and Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole<br />
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==Context==<br />
Food environments can be defined as the “physical, economic, political and socio-cultural context in which consumers engage with the food system to make their decisions about acquiring, preparing and consuming food”.<br />
<br />
In contrast to the ‘consumer choice model’ (founded on the idea that awareness raising and education about better food choices will make people change their food behaviour), the ‘food environment approach’ recognises that the choices we make about food and the impacts they have are, to a significant degree, shaped by the contexts within which they are made. Following from that, it recognises that the most effective and equitable way to change food behaviours is to change the structural factors that drive food choice, among which are aspects of the built environment. As they affect access to food entry points, including the distance to food outlets, and the availability of physical infrastructures, such as public transport networks, etc.<br />
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Local players can therefore act on the environment to encourage more sustainable and healthier eating habits, by improving accessibility to the entire food offer: shops, restaurants, markets, and points of sale.<br />
Montpellier's tramway network already comprises 4 lines. A 5th line, 20 km long, is currently under construction and will cross the city and serve the neighbourhood cities of Greater Montpellier by 2025. With this 5th line, the Metropole offers a new North/South-West diagonal to its network, linking its transport network even more finely and extensively.<br />
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Urban development projects and other public policies (linked to transport or the commercial offer, for example) often modify food landscapes. Their impact on household food supply practices is, however, poorly understood, and may vary according to the social, demographic, and economic characteristics of populations and territories. To better understand these spatio-temporal dynamics, the first step is to describe and characterize food landscapes (or environments) and their evolution.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for local students==<br />
In a specific neighborhood of the Montpellier metropolitan area, the idea is to carry out a field survey to determine a diagnosis of food environments and how they are evolving: <br />
* Define the urban and social characteristics of the area in question<br />
* Mapping current food landscapes: the neighborhood food offer<br />
* Outlook on the evolution of these food landscapes with the arrival of the 5th tramway line<br />
* Recommendations for new developments around the tramway line<br />
This survey is part of a larger project, on a metropolitan scale, being carried out by a research team and players in Montpellier's Agroecological and Food Policy (Politique Agroécologique et Alimentaire).<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote students==<br />
* Review of literature and case studies on the impact of transport infrastructure projects on the evolution of food environments<br />
* Depending on the social and urban characteristics of the selected neighborhood: what ways can be found to improve its food environments?<br />
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Mastering French to a certain extent is a preference since much of the references and stakeholder responses will be in French, a comparative case study of other countries can of course be carried out in English.<br />
<br />
=Warsaw “MOST Urban Farm” Living Lab/Poland=<br />
==Production and collaboration with local farmers==<br />
Short video presentation, Short pdf description 2023-01_MOST_LL_en, Extended description<br />
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FZvY1t1ptUOfIXTSJ8XrFWJecCt6WlrU/view?usp=sharing<br />
<br />
The Warsaw Urban Farm initiative was born out of the need to prepare the city for the upcoming effects of the environmental and food crises. Our goal is to create a local center for agro-ecological education and food production, and to develop and network future leaders in the field of sustainable food planning to contribute locally to food security and a healthier environment.<br />
To strengthen the city's resilience, we want to establish Warsaw's first farm (MOST), which will also be an incubator for further initiatives in the area of sustainable food system of Warsaw and surrounding suburban and rural areas.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for the local students== <br />
* In addition to finances, what are the potential benefits of establishing the MOST farm in the selected location?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; analysis of spatial planning documents; field trip; spatial analysis; identifying key partners and stakeholders; identifying main problems and challenges faced by farmers operating in the selected area; SWOT analysis for the Warsaw agriculture of the upper Vistula)<br />
* What should be an economic model of the MOST farm?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trip; identifying main problems and challenges faced by farmers operating in the selected area; SWOT analysis for the Warsaw agriculture of the upper Vistula, developing an economic model )<br />
* Who are the stakeholders (municipality, neighbor community, involved institutions, and farmers) and what are their needs and influence?<br />
(methods: field trip; analysis of land ownership; identifying key partners and stakeholders; mapping all actors and their needs and power; define potential partnerships and alliances)<br />
* What is the attitude of local farmers towards urban agriculture initiatives, particularly MOST?<br />
(methods: field trip; mapping local farmers; interviews and questionnaires; designing a food hub)<br />
* What edible plants are the best to cultivate in MOST farm? Considering climate factors and socio-economic factors (production feasibility, retail). <br />
(methods: literature review; field trip; consultation with an expert)<br />
* What is the Warsaw municipality's attitude toward biodiversity? Is it only a cost of maintaining vacant lands or a food production opportunity?<br />
(methods: analysis of Municipality planning documents; interviews and questionnaires)<br />
* What are the regional rituals associated with agriculture and how to transfer them to an urban context?<br />
(methods: literature review; field trip; mapping local farmers; interviews and questionnaires; developing a proposal for an urban harvest celebration)<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for the remote students==<br />
* What should the coop urban farm include in its programme? What are the potential benefits (social, economic, environmental, others), and how to increase them?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trips)<br />
* What are the models of coop urban farms around the world? (Economic models, inner organization structures).<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trips)<br />
* What are the city's policies towards vacant lands considering its biodiversity and food production opportunities?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; analysis of Municipality planning documents; interviews and questionnaires)<br />
<br />
=Ghent "Agroecological Urbanism Future Heritage" Living Lab/ Belgium=<br />
Ghent University in collaboration with De Stadsacademie*, STA.M, ILVO<br />
De Stadsacademie is a collaboratorium dedicated to transdisciplinary research and teaching on complex and urgent sustainability challenges faced by the city and the University of Ghent. De Stadsacademie works on several ‘trajectories’ that define the thematic scope of its work over a series of years.<br />
<br />
==Starting with the Kitchen. Rethinking neighbourhood food systems from an agroecological perspective==<br />
To rethink and transform urban local food systems, the kitchen is a good place to start. Even in the highly commodified urban food system of a city like Ghent, the kitchen entertains a strong relation of proximity to the places of eating. That is true for the individual kitchens at home but is true for collective kitchen infrastructure. The kitchen is not only the place where food is prepared, It is also a place in which logic of consumption and production meet. This also makes the kitchen a place of potential solidarity between producers and consumers.<br />
In this year’s working cycle of the Living Lab, we will explore the agroecological transformation of neighbourhood food systems through the perspective of the community kitchen in the Bloemekenswijk in Ghent. While the Bloemekenswijk is historically part of the periphery of Ghent, it is today subject to new dynamics of urbanization that reposition the neighbourhood within the urban agglomeration and set up a new dialogue between local and supra-local relations. This gives an opportunity to think about the role of neighbourhood infrastructure in general and food infrastructure in particular. The neighbourhood contains an array of existing food initiatives that can be the starting point of an agroecological transformation of the food system. The focus will be in particular on the Bloemekenswijk, however, will include the documentation of initiatives in other neighbourhoods as well.<br />
<br />
We will be exploring different transformative pathways together with actors within the neighbourhood.<br />
* the possible connection of neighbourhood initiatives to farmland owned by the Public Center for Social Welfare (OCMW)<br />
* the possible coproduction between the existing social economy cluster (VZW Ateljee & Balenmagazijn) with social economy initiatives active in food production (De Loods in Aalst)<br />
* the possible creation of a food hub, supplying food to existing neighbourhood restaurants, institutional canteens, school kitchens, etc.<br />
* the transformation of the existing market (Van Beverenplein) as a public site of local food supply in co-creation with neighbourhood food initiatives<br />
* the reactivation of the bakery on the psychiatric campus Dr. Guislain<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote student==<br />
Students can choose between track A (literature review) or B (case study)<br />
===A.Literature review on neighborhood food systems and what makes them transformative===<br />
* What are the main drivers behind the creation of neighborhood food systems?<br />
* How can place-based initiatives be used to define solidarities that don’t remain limited to the local (and move beyond the local trap (Purcell 2006))?<br />
* How do local initiatives cope with the tension between ecological and social goals?<br />
* How can neighbourhood infrastructure be retooled to link up with local producers? What are the organizational and infrastructural implications of relying on direct supply?<br />
* How dependent are food support initiatives on surplus food and how do they seek to break that dependency?<br />
<br />
===B.Documentation, discussion of existing practices connecting neighbourhood food networks and infrastructures to local suppliers, and questions of access to land?===<br />
Examples around public catering within public institutes (schools, hospitals, care facilities…) that make a direct connection between public food provisioning, agroecological farmers, and land management.<br />
Examples of neighbourhood-based initiatives around food support and place-based solidarity in connection with agroecological farmers. We are particularly interested in community kitchen initiatives building a food sovereignty agenda together with agroecological producers.<br />
<br />
==The General Context of the Ghent Living Lab and Earlier Work==<br />
The urban food policy of the City of Ghent, Gent en Garde, has been the subject of international attention including several prestigious prizes. At the same time, the systematic sale of public farmland in the peri-urban fringe of Ghent has alienated new and traditional farmers who are upset about the systematic loss of farmland. Farmers are rapidly disappearing from the peri-urban fringe, and new farmers face great difficulty in establishing themselves. <br />
Within the context of De Stadsacademie* civil society actors, farmers, urban civil servants, students and researchers have been engaged in the development of alternative policies regarding publicly owned farmland, and agricultural heritage more generally. The land currently being sold off by the city is the fruit of historical investment in urban agricultural heritage that has been handed down over several generations and is part of the permanent improvements (infrastructure, public space, heritage landscapes, drainage systems, etc.) that made farming possible.<br />
Contemporary urban constituencies seem to care little for the future of this publicly owned farmland. In the political debate on the sale of public land urban social goals are played against ecological concerns and the protection of local farming activities. The land is presented as ‘fragmented’ and off little public interest, and sold to finance the development of residential care facilities for the elderly. The campaign against the sale of public farmland has led to a moratorium on further sales in the neighbouring municipalities of Ghent. in the meantime, the city is preparing a vision on Agricultural land use in the city and the wider region. Within De Stadsacademie we want to enter into a dialogue with parties that could help to articulate a shared agenda regarding the way in which the public ownership of farmland could be leveraged to accelerate an agroecological food transition. This will happen in the framework of an agroecological urbanism (www.agroecologicalurbanism.org), which is a way of urbanizing that actively supports the care for soils and the growing of food in an equitable and ecologically sustainable way. We will try to imagine new forms of urban infrastructure and future heritage that contribute to the local support of agroecological farmers and re-inscribe the farming activities within a new urban geography of farming.<br />
Last year we worked within the living lab on various fronts, exploring possible connections between local food policy initiatives and public land management. The results of last year’s local work in the living lab were documented in a series of video portraits: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5xVUeu3UV65ME7uF9RoRoNefUcVm3ba<br />
In July 2023 ‘De Stadacademie’ hosted the 2nd AESOP4FOOD Intensive Programme. A detailed programme of the IP can be found here: Programme IP Ghent - Future Heritage_Agroecological Urbanism<br />
This year we want to narrow the scope of the exercise and go deeper in one of the lines of investigation namely that of the community kitchen and the role of neighbourhood food infrastructure.<br />
part of this hypothesis has been explored in a master thesis that was produced in the context of ‘De Stadsacademie’. Master thesis Neighborfood<br />
<br />
=Madrid Agroecologico Living Lab/ Spain=<br />
<br />
==Circular Economy in Food Retail==<br />
It is easier to imagine an apple being integrated into a circular system than most of the consumer goods that surround us. It might be easier, but we are still far away from achieving circular loops in the food sector. The reasons are multiple, some of them are related to the global chains in which our current food system is embedded. We propose a Living Lab based on the assumption that with shorter food chains and more direct relationships between production and consumption, a shift into a circularity paradigm would be more feasible. <br />
The Living Lab Is conceived as a space for co-generation of applied knowledge together with the cooperative supermarket LA OSA and with the support of the [https://ciecmadrid.es International Center for Circular Economy (CIEC) of the Municipality of Madrid]. The main goal is to boost mechanisms of circular economy, to reduce both packaging and food waste, but also to enhance the recovery and reuse of packaging. The Living Lab responds to an interest expressed by the cooperative and its members, some of whom tried to set up a working group on these matters.<br />
We assume that short food supply chains are better positioned to adopt circularity, and the living lab should help the Cooperative Supermarket to have a diagnosis of the situation and to envision ways to transform and improve it, with the support of the CIEC which in turn, provide coaching and support to create innovative ecosystems.<br />
<br />
==Research questions== <br />
* Is the cooperative supermarket better positioned to reduce the use of plastics in the commercialization of food?<br />
* What has been the impact of the measures adopted to reduce food waste and packaging waste?<br />
* Which are the bottlenecks of a transition into a (close to) zero plastic and zero waste model? For which part of the food consumer goods would that be easier?<br />
* Do agroecological projects and short supply chains perform better in terms of circularity? Which are their potentials to achieve circularity and how can they be enhanced?<br />
* Which are the implications in terms of spatial requirements and organizational operations associated with a shorter change embedded in circularity?<br />
<br />
==Research questions for remote students==<br />
<br />
* What are examples of good practices to enhance circular loops in the food chain, focussing on the production-distribution linkages?<br />
* Which are the key factors to replicate practices of regenerative food production embedded in closed loops?<br />
<br />
<br />
= A Living Lab for building a Local Food Strategy for the Bucharest District 6=<br />
<br />
==Introduction== <br />
Sector 6 of Bucharest is an administrative unit with diverse quarters like Crângași, Drumul Taberei, Ghencea, Giulești, Militari, and Regie. The sector covers 38 square kilometers, housing a population of 325,759 as of December 2021. It aims to become a smart and green city, with strategic plans for urban development. For more detailed information, you can visit the Wikipedia page on Sector 6 of Bucharest.<br />
[[File:Sector 6.png|thumb|right]]<br />
Bucharest's District 6 is starting a sustainable food strategy aimed at enhancing local production, decreasing environmental impacts, and fortifying community connections. This initiative proposes the creation of a living lab—a collaborative environment where citizens, researchers, policymakers, and businesses unite to tackle complex challenges within the local food system. <br />
<br />
Expected Outcomes:<br />
* A detailed map of District 6's food ecosystem, with key players and their interactions.<br />
* Defining general objectives aligning with community needs and sustainability ambitions.<br />
* A shared vision for District 6's future food system, leading to a strategic plan and scalable pilot projects.<br />
[[File:Sector6detail.png|thumb|right]]<br />
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==Objectives for local students==<br />
* Mapping the Local Food System: To catalog all participants in District 6's food system, including producers, distributors, retailers, consumers, and waste handlers, thereby identifying product flows, inefficiencies, and opportunities for sustainability.<br />
* Establishing General Objectives: To set comprehensive goals like reducing food transportation distances, improving food security, advocating for local and seasonal foods, and cutting down food waste.<br />
* Developing a Vision: To formulate a long-term outlook for District 6’s food system that embodies sustainability, community welfare, and economic health.<br />
* Creating a Strategy: To devise an actionable plan that includes innovative practices such as urban agriculture, food sharing initiatives, and circular economy principles, detailing both immediate and future steps, potential hurdles, and success indicators.<br />
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==Research questions for remote students==<br />
# Integration: How can District 6's food strategy integrate with the broader city-region for mutual sustainability benefits?<br />
# Formation: What are the necessary steps and key players for establishing an effective local food council at the district level?<br />
# Objectives: In a post-socialist capital's context such as District 6, what are the primary goals for a local food strategy?<br />
# Engagement: What are the most effective methods for engaging residents in the local food system strategy?<br />
[[File:Sector6market.png|thumb]]<br />
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=A Living Lab in Tartu, Estonia=<br />
Tartu (cultural capital of Europe 2024) is the second biggest city in Estonia and is located in the southeast part of the country. Agriculture is an important aspect of the county's development.<br />
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This theme will focus on the expanding interest in Estonia in organic food production within a framework of sustainable farming, together with the Tartu County Food Strategy 2022-2030. The idea is to develop the Agricultural Park concept in the urban fringe of Tartu, which would serve as a place of organic production, agricultural innovation, education, economy, and bioeconomy, but would be also a potential place for recreation and act as a connector people and the city green and blue infrastructure. Two different student groups will focus on practical work, land use analysis, site-specific interventions, and working with different stakeholders, including a marginalised group of people from a care setting. De-institutionalised care is a recent move in Estonia, with people being removed from large care home settings to smaller, cosier groups in the community supported by care workers. However, they are not well integrated into the community, and work opportunities are low.<br />
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===Urban food hub/living lab in Tartu===<br />
According to the Tartu County Food Strategy 2022-2030, Tartu county in Estonia is well known for its various public or private initiatives regarding food production at different scales. It is also known for its research on organic food, collaboration networks, and multiple food industry businesses. However, there is a lack of a common and consistent food strategy for the region. The authors of the report aim not only to consider organic farming principles but also to shorten product cycles in accordance with the ‘farm to table’ principle; localising production; strengthening networking activities; cooperating with local research and development units; and creating of a common brand, that would bring recognition to the county’s products. These aims should be done within EU frameworks in a socially, economically, culturally, and ecologically sustainable way, taking into consideration site-specific conditions and the complicated past of the Baltic countries and land reforms connected to it (such as the soviet era collectivisation process, re-establishing of the family farms as well as commercial agricultural farms and its impact on current approaches to agriculture). Following on from that, the aim is to understand the landscape spatial planning and design implications of the above-mentioned strategy. Understanding of local needs and conditions, and the values that local inhabitants hold on in the environment, culture, and economy. Participants will choose to work on the area of Mahekeskus (Organic Farming Centre) of the Estonian University of Life Sciences or find additional suitable spaces or spatial approaches for the topic.<br />
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Local challenge: to understand the potential of Tartu city and county to become a food hub, including social, economic, cultural and ecological spatial challenges, namely, creating a joint food collaboration network in its social, cultural, and spatial dimensions. Promotion and marketing of locally produced food. Integrating people in care into the community through healthy activities or work based in the agricultural park.<br />
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The students of the comprehensive planning course are collecting and preparing information to analyse the possibilities for creating a Food Hub close to Tartu town at and around the sustainable farming centre of the Estonian University of Life Sciences. They are aiming to collect existing legal land use data and analyse land use possibilities and limitations in them. This aims to result in initiating and discussing some ideas for the content of the Food Hub together with the Living Lab, that will be developed. It will have a follow-up in the Landscape Forum Tartu 2024 workshop on Foodscapes. The plan is to develop a further research project application for the Food Hub.<br />
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==Assignment questions for local students==<br />
# What can be learned from the history regarding agriculture and urban agriculture in the Tartu region?<br />
# What are current municipal food and agricultural policies and how they are connected with spatial planning and management documents? How do these documents influence or suggest the potential to develop (peri-)urban agriculture in Tartu?<br />
# What are the ownership conditions of farmland around and within Tartu? What are different agricultural land-use types and practices (formal and informal)?<br />
# What are the social and cultural conditions and potentials to develop a (peri-)urban food hub or agricultural park in Tartu?<br />
# Who are the existing and potential stakeholders? What are their characteristics?<br />
# What is the potential for inclusion for those in care in the community placements <br />
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Summary of analysis in the form of land-use and strategic limitations and possibilities, report of stakeholder mapping and/or interviews/questionnaires as well as an overview of initial ideas about food hub or landscape park based on Mahekeskus and other areas.<br />
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==Assignment questions for remote students==<br />
# What is the current situation of urban food production in an EU country, comparing the Baltic countries with other areas? What influences it?<br />
# How can urban agriculture in small cities such as Tartu be strategically planned and promoted?<br />
Summary of analysis in the form of SWOT analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, as well as stakeholder mapping and/or interviews/questionnaires.<br />
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==Spatial planning and design strategy across both student groups==<br />
# What are the existing spatial solutions unifying and enhancing food production in urban and peri-urban areas as well as connection with rural areas (such as the concept of agricultural parks).<br />
# What solutions can be adapted or implemented in Tartu county? How and why?<br />
# How can these areas be governed and managed in a sustainable, inclusive, and multifunctional way?<br />
# How can the interests of all defined stakeholders be strategically connected?<br />
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=Living Labs in development=<br />
The presented living lab subjects and questions are in development. If you participate in assignment mode, you can also define your own research question or the aim of your assignment. You need to send that in the survey you received before February 16, 2024. After that date, it is only possible to participate in the course in lecture mode.<br />
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= Montpellier « Changes in a neighbourhood's* food environment with the arrival of a new tramway line » Living Lab /France=<br />
*Neighbourhood under definition, in partnership with INRAE and Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole<br />
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==Context==<br />
Food environments can be defined as the “physical, economic, political and socio-cultural context in which consumers engage with the food system to make their decisions about acquiring, preparing and consuming food”.<br />
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In contrast to the ‘consumer choice model’ (founded on the idea that awareness raising and education about better food choices will make people change their food behaviour), the ‘food environment approach’ recognises that the choices we make about food and the impacts they have are, to a significant degree, shaped by the contexts within which they are made. Following from that, it recognises that the most effective and equitable way to change food behaviours is to change the structural factors that drive food choice, among which are aspects of the built environment. As they affect access to food entry points, including the distance to food outlets, and the availability of physical infrastructures, such as public transport networks, etc.<br />
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Local players can therefore act on the environment to encourage more sustainable and healthier eating habits, by improving accessibility to the entire food offer: shops, restaurants, markets, and points of sale.<br />
Montpellier's tramway network already comprises 4 lines. A 5th line, 20 km long, is currently under construction and will cross the city and serve the neighbourhood cities of Greater Montpellier by 2025. With this 5th line, the Metropole offers a new North/South-West diagonal to its network, linking its transport network even more finely and extensively.<br />
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Urban development projects and other public policies (linked to transport or the commercial offer, for example) often modify food landscapes. Their impact on household food supply practices is, however, poorly understood, and may vary according to the social, demographic, and economic characteristics of populations and territories. To better understand these spatio-temporal dynamics, the first step is to describe and characterize food landscapes (or environments) and their evolution.<br />
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==Assignment questions for local students==<br />
In a specific neighborhood of the Montpellier metropolitan area, the idea is to carry out a field survey to determine a diagnosis of food environments and how they are evolving: <br />
* Define the urban and social characteristics of the area in question<br />
* Mapping current food landscapes: the neighborhood food offer<br />
* Outlook on the evolution of these food landscapes with the arrival of the 5th tramway line<br />
* Recommendations for new developments around the tramway line<br />
This survey is part of a larger project, on a metropolitan scale, being carried out by a research team and players in Montpellier's Agroecological and Food Policy (Politique Agroécologique et Alimentaire).<br />
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==Assignment questions for remote students==<br />
* Review of literature and case studies on the impact of transport infrastructure projects on the evolution of food environments<br />
* Depending on the social and urban characteristics of the selected neighborhood: what ways can be found to improve its food environments?<br />
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Mastering French to a certain extent is a preference since much of the references and stakeholder responses will be in French, a comparative case study of other countries can of course be carried out in English.<br />
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=Warsaw “MOST Urban Farm” Living Lab/Poland=<br />
==Production and collaboration with local farmers==<br />
Short video presentation, Short pdf description 2023-01_MOST_LL_en, Extended description<br />
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FZvY1t1ptUOfIXTSJ8XrFWJecCt6WlrU/view?usp=sharing<br />
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The Warsaw Urban Farm initiative was born out of the need to prepare the city for the upcoming effects of the environmental and food crises. Our goal is to create a local center for agro-ecological education and food production, and to develop and network future leaders in the field of sustainable food planning to contribute locally to food security and a healthier environment.<br />
To strengthen the city's resilience, we want to establish Warsaw's first farm (MOST), which will also be an incubator for further initiatives in the area of sustainable food system of Warsaw and surrounding suburban and rural areas.<br />
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==Assignment questions for the local students== <br />
* In addition to finances, what are the potential benefits of establishing the MOST farm in the selected location?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; analysis of spatial planning documents; field trip; spatial analysis; identifying key partners and stakeholders; identifying main problems and challenges faced by farmers operating in the selected area; SWOT analysis for the Warsaw agriculture of the upper Vistula)<br />
* What should be an economic model of the MOST farm?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trip; identifying main problems and challenges faced by farmers operating in the selected area; SWOT analysis for the Warsaw agriculture of the upper Vistula, developing an economic model )<br />
* Who are the stakeholders (municipality, neighbor community, involved institutions, and farmers) and what are their needs and influence?<br />
(methods: field trip; analysis of land ownership; identifying key partners and stakeholders; mapping all actors and their needs and power; define potential partnerships and alliances)<br />
* What is the attitude of local farmers towards urban agriculture initiatives, particularly MOST?<br />
(methods: field trip; mapping local farmers; interviews and questionnaires; designing a food hub)<br />
* What edible plants are the best to cultivate in MOST farm? Considering climate factors and socio-economic factors (production feasibility, retail). <br />
(methods: literature review; field trip; consultation with an expert)<br />
* What is the Warsaw municipality's attitude toward biodiversity? Is it only a cost of maintaining vacant lands or a food production opportunity?<br />
(methods: analysis of Municipality planning documents; interviews and questionnaires)<br />
* What are the regional rituals associated with agriculture and how to transfer them to an urban context?<br />
(methods: literature review; field trip; mapping local farmers; interviews and questionnaires; developing a proposal for an urban harvest celebration)<br />
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==Assignment questions for the remote students==<br />
* What should the coop urban farm include in its programme? What are the potential benefits (social, economic, environmental, others), and how to increase them?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trips)<br />
* What are the models of coop urban farms around the world? (Economic models, inner organization structures).<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trips)<br />
* What are the city's policies towards vacant lands considering its biodiversity and food production opportunities?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; analysis of Municipality planning documents; interviews and questionnaires)<br />
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=Ghent "Agroecological Urbanism Future Heritage" Living Lab/ Belgium=<br />
Ghent University in collaboration with De Stadsacademie*, STA.M, ILVO<br />
De Stadsacademie is a collaboratorium dedicated to transdisciplinary research and teaching on complex and urgent sustainability challenges faced by the city and the University of Ghent. De Stadsacademie works on several ‘trajectories’ that define the thematic scope of its work over a series of years.<br />
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==Starting with the Kitchen. Rethinking neighbourhood food systems from an agroecological perspective==<br />
To rethink and transform urban local food systems, the kitchen is a good place to start. Even in the highly commodified urban food system of a city like Ghent, the kitchen entertains a strong relation of proximity to the places of eating. That is true for the individual kitchens at home but is true for collective kitchen infrastructure. The kitchen is not only the place where food is prepared, It is also a place in which logic of consumption and production meet. This also makes the kitchen a place of potential solidarity between producers and consumers.<br />
In this year’s working cycle of the Living Lab, we will explore the agroecological transformation of neighbourhood food systems through the perspective of the community kitchen in the Bloemekenswijk in Ghent. While the Bloemekenswijk is historically part of the periphery of Ghent, it is today subject to new dynamics of urbanization that reposition the neighbourhood within the urban agglomeration and set up a new dialogue between local and supra-local relations. This gives an opportunity to think about the role of neighbourhood infrastructure in general and food infrastructure in particular. The neighbourhood contains an array of existing food initiatives that can be the starting point of an agroecological transformation of the food system. The focus will be in particular on the Bloemekenswijk, however, will include the documentation of initiatives in other neighbourhoods as well.<br />
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We will be exploring different transformative pathways together with actors within the neighbourhood.<br />
* the possible connection of neighbourhood initiatives to farmland owned by the Public Center for Social Welfare (OCMW)<br />
* the possible coproduction between the existing social economy cluster (VZW Ateljee & Balenmagazijn) with social economy initiatives active in food production (De Loods in Aalst)<br />
* the possible creation of a food hub, supplying food to existing neighbourhood restaurants, institutional canteens, school kitchens, etc.<br />
* the transformation of the existing market (Van Beverenplein) as a public site of local food supply in co-creation with neighbourhood food initiatives<br />
* the reactivation of the bakery on the psychiatric campus Dr. Guislain<br />
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==Assignment questions for remote student==<br />
Students can choose between track A (literature review) or B (case study)<br />
===A.Literature review on neighborhood food systems and what makes them transformative===<br />
* What are the main drivers behind the creation of neighborhood food systems?<br />
* How can place-based initiatives be used to define solidarities that don’t remain limited to the local (and move beyond the local trap (Purcell 2006))?<br />
* How do local initiatives cope with the tension between ecological and social goals?<br />
* How can neighbourhood infrastructure be retooled to link up with local producers? What are the organizational and infrastructural implications of relying on direct supply?<br />
* How dependent are food support initiatives on surplus food and how do they seek to break that dependency?<br />
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===B.Documentation, discussion of existing practices connecting neighbourhood food networks and infrastructures to local suppliers, and questions of access to land?===<br />
Examples around public catering within public institutes (schools, hospitals, care facilities…) that make a direct connection between public food provisioning, agroecological farmers, and land management.<br />
Examples of neighbourhood-based initiatives around food support and place-based solidarity in connection with agroecological farmers. We are particularly interested in community kitchen initiatives building a food sovereignty agenda together with agroecological producers.<br />
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==The General Context of the Ghent Living Lab and Earlier Work==<br />
The urban food policy of the City of Ghent, Gent en Garde, has been the subject of international attention including several prestigious prizes. At the same time, the systematic sale of public farmland in the peri-urban fringe of Ghent has alienated new and traditional farmers who are upset about the systematic loss of farmland. Farmers are rapidly disappearing from the peri-urban fringe, and new farmers face great difficulty in establishing themselves. <br />
Within the context of De Stadsacademie* civil society actors, farmers, urban civil servants, students and researchers have been engaged in the development of alternative policies regarding publicly owned farmland, and agricultural heritage more generally. The land currently being sold off by the city is the fruit of historical investment in urban agricultural heritage that has been handed down over several generations and is part of the permanent improvements (infrastructure, public space, heritage landscapes, drainage systems, etc.) that made farming possible.<br />
Contemporary urban constituencies seem to care little for the future of this publicly owned farmland. In the political debate on the sale of public land urban social goals are played against ecological concerns and the protection of local farming activities. The land is presented as ‘fragmented’ and off little public interest, and sold to finance the development of residential care facilities for the elderly. The campaign against the sale of public farmland has led to a moratorium on further sales in the neighbouring municipalities of Ghent. in the meantime, the city is preparing a vision on Agricultural land use in the city and the wider region. Within De Stadsacademie we want to enter into a dialogue with parties that could help to articulate a shared agenda regarding the way in which the public ownership of farmland could be leveraged to accelerate an agroecological food transition. This will happen in the framework of an agroecological urbanism (www.agroecologicalurbanism.org), which is a way of urbanizing that actively supports the care for soils and the growing of food in an equitable and ecologically sustainable way. We will try to imagine new forms of urban infrastructure and future heritage that contribute to the local support of agroecological farmers and re-inscribe the farming activities within a new urban geography of farming.<br />
Last year we worked within the living lab on various fronts, exploring possible connections between local food policy initiatives and public land management. The results of last year’s local work in the living lab were documented in a series of video portraits: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5xVUeu3UV65ME7uF9RoRoNefUcVm3ba<br />
In July 2023 ‘De Stadacademie’ hosted the 2nd AESOP4FOOD Intensive Programme. A detailed programme of the IP can be found here: Programme IP Ghent - Future Heritage_Agroecological Urbanism<br />
This year we want to narrow the scope of the exercise and go deeper in one of the lines of investigation namely that of the community kitchen and the role of neighbourhood food infrastructure.<br />
part of this hypothesis has been explored in a master thesis that was produced in the context of ‘De Stadsacademie’. Master thesis Neighborfood<br />
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=Madrid Agroecologico Living Lab/ Spain=<br />
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==Circular Economy in Food Retail==<br />
It is easier to imagine an apple being integrated into a circular system than most of the consumer goods that surround us. It might be easier, but we are still far away from achieving circular loops in the food sector. The reasons are multiple, some of them are related to the global chains in which our current food system is embedded. We propose a Living Lab based on the assumption that with shorter food chains and more direct relationships between production and consumption, a shift into a circularity paradigm would be more feasible. <br />
The Living Lab Is conceived as a space for co-generation of applied knowledge together with the cooperative supermarket LA OSA and with the support of the [https://ciecmadrid.es International Center for Circular Economy (CIEC) of the Municipality of Madrid]. The main goal is to boost mechanisms of circular economy, to reduce both packaging and food waste, but also to enhance the recovery and reuse of packaging. The Living Lab responds to an interest expressed by the cooperative and its members, some of whom tried to set up a working group on these matters.<br />
We assume that short food supply chains are better positioned to adopt circularity, and the living lab should help the Cooperative Supermarket to have a diagnosis of the situation and to envision ways to transform and improve it, with the support of the CIEC which in turn, provide coaching and support to create innovative ecosystems.<br />
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==Research questions== <br />
* Is the cooperative supermarket better positioned to reduce the use of plastics in the commercialization of food?<br />
* What has been the impact of the measures adopted to reduce food waste and packaging waste?<br />
* Which are the bottlenecks of a transition into a (close to) zero plastic and zero waste model? For which part of the food consumer goods would that be easier?<br />
* Do agroecological projects and short supply chains perform better in terms of circularity? Which are their potentials to achieve circularity and how can they be enhanced?<br />
* Which are the implications in terms of spatial requirements and organizational operations associated with a shorter change embedded in circularity?<br />
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==Research questions for remote students==<br />
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* What are examples of good practices to enhance circular loops in the food chain, focussing on the production-distribution linkages?<br />
* Which are the key factors to replicate practices of regenerative food production embedded in closed loops?<br />
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= A Living Lab for building a Local Food Strategy for the Bucharest District 6=<br />
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==Introduction== <br />
Sector 6 of Bucharest is an administrative unit with diverse quarters like Crângași, Drumul Taberei, Ghencea, Giulești, Militari, and Regie. The sector covers 38 square kilometers, housing a population of 325,759 as of December 2021. It aims to become a smart and green city, with strategic plans for urban development. For more detailed information, you can visit the Wikipedia page on Sector 6 of Bucharest.<br />
[[File:Sector 6.png|thumb|right]]<br />
Bucharest's District 6 is starting a sustainable food strategy aimed at enhancing local production, decreasing environmental impacts, and fortifying community connections. This initiative proposes the creation of a living lab—a collaborative environment where citizens, researchers, policymakers, and businesses unite to tackle complex challenges within the local food system. <br />
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Expected Outcomes:<br />
* A detailed map of District 6's food ecosystem, with key players and their interactions.<br />
* Defining general objectives aligning with community needs and sustainability ambitions.<br />
* A shared vision for District 6's future food system, leading to a strategic plan and scalable pilot projects.<br />
[[File:Sector6detail.png|thumb|right]]<br />
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==Objectives for local students==<br />
* Mapping the Local Food System: To catalog all participants in District 6's food system, including producers, distributors, retailers, consumers, and waste handlers, thereby identifying product flows, inefficiencies, and opportunities for sustainability.<br />
* Establishing General Objectives: To set comprehensive goals like reducing food transportation distances, improving food security, advocating for local and seasonal foods, and cutting down food waste.<br />
* Developing a Vision: To formulate a long-term outlook for District 6’s food system that embodies sustainability, community welfare, and economic health.<br />
* Creating a Strategy: To devise an actionable plan that includes innovative practices such as urban agriculture, food sharing initiatives, and circular economy principles, detailing both immediate and future steps, potential hurdles, and success indicators.<br />
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==Research questions for remote students==<br />
# Integration: How can District 6's food strategy integrate with the broader city-region for mutual sustainability benefits?<br />
# Formation: What are the necessary steps and key players for establishing an effective local food council at the district level?<br />
# Objectives: In a post-socialist capital's context such as District 6, what are the primary goals for a local food strategy?<br />
# Engagement: What are the most effective methods for engaging residents in the local food system strategy?<br />
[[File:Sector6market.png|thumb]]<br />
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=A Living Lab in Tartu, Estonia=<br />
Tartu (cultural capital of Europe 2024) is the second biggest city in Estonia and is located in the southeast part of the country. Agriculture is an important aspect of the county's development.<br />
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This theme will focus on the expanding interest in Estonia in organic food production within a framework of sustainable farming, together with the Tartu County Food Strategy 2022-2030. The idea is to develop the Agricultural Park concept in the urban fringe of Tartu, which would serve as a place of organic production, agricultural innovation, education, economy, and bioeconomy, but would be also a potential place for recreation and act as a connector people and the city green and blue infrastructure. Two different student groups will focus on practical work, land use analysis, site-specific interventions, and working with different stakeholders, including a marginalised group of people from a care setting. De-institutionalised care is a recent move in Estonia, with people being removed from large care home settings to smaller, cosier groups in the community supported by care workers. However, they are not well integrated into the community, and work opportunities are low.<br />
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===Urban food hub/living lab in Tartu===<br />
According to the Tartu County Food Strategy 2022-2030, Tartu county in Estonia is well known for its various public or private initiatives regarding food production at different scales. It is also known for its research on organic food, collaboration networks, and multiple food industry businesses. However, there is a lack of a common and consistent food strategy for the region. The authors of the report aim not only to consider organic farming principles but also to shorten product cycles in accordance with the ‘farm to table’ principle; localising production; strengthen networking activities; cooperate with local research and development units; and creation of a common brand, that would bring recognition to the county’s products. These aims should be done within EU frameworks in a socially, economically, culturally, and ecologically sustainable way, taking into consideration site-specific conditions and the complicated past of the Baltic countries and land reforms connected to it (such as the soviet era collectivisation process, re-establishing of the family farms as well as commercial agricultural farms and its impact on current approaches to agriculture). Following on from that, the aim is to understand the landscape spatial planning and design implications of the above-mentioned strategy. Understanding of local needs and conditions, and the values that local inhabitants hold on in the environment, culture, and economy. Participants will choose to work on the area of Mahekeskus (Organic Farming Centre) of the Estonian University of Life Sciences or find additional suitable spaces or spatial approach for the topic.<br />
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Local challenge: to understand the potential of Tartu city and county to become a food hub, including social, economic, cultural and ecological spatial challenges, namely, creating a joint food collaboration network in its social, cultural and spatial dimensions. Promotion and marketing of locally produced food. Integrating people in care into the community through healthy activities or work based in the agricultural park.<br />
<br />
The students of the comprehensive planning course are collecting and preparing information to analyse the possibilities for creating a Food Hub close to Tartu town at and around the sustainable farming centre of the Estonian University of Life Sciences. They are aiming to collect existing legal land use data and analyse land use possibilities and limitations in them. This aims to result in initiating and discussing some ideas for the content of the Food Hub together with the Living Lab, that will be developed. It will have a follow up in the Landscape Forum Tartu 2024 workshop on Foodscapes. The plan is to develop a further research project application for the Food Hub.<br />
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Assignment questions for local students<br />
• What can be learnt from the past history regarding the agriculture and urban agriculture in the Tartu region?<br />
• What are current municipal food and agricultural policies and how they are connected with spatial planning and management documents? How do these documents influence or suggest the potential to develop (peri-)urban agriculture in Tartu?<br />
• What are the ownership conditions of farmland around and within Tartu? What are different agricultural landuse types and practices (formal and informal)?<br />
• What are the social and cultural conditions and potentials to develop a (peri-)urban food hub or agricultural park in Tartu?<br />
• Who are the existing and potential stakeholders? What are their characteristics?<br />
• What is the potential for inclusion for those in care in the community placements <br />
<br />
Summary of analysis in the form of landuse and strategic limitations and possibilities, report of stakeholder mapping and/or interviews/questionnaires as well as an overview of initial ideas about food hub or landscape park based on Mahekeskus and other areas.<br />
<br />
Assignment questions for remote students<br />
• What is the current situation of urban food production in an EU country, comparing the Baltic countries with other areas? What influences it?<br />
• How can urban agriculture in small cities such as Tartu be to strategically planned and promoted?<br />
Summary of analysis in the form of SWOT analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, as well as stakeholder mapping and/or interviews/questionnaires.<br />
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Spatial planning and design strategy across the both student groups<br />
• What are the existing spatial solutions unifying and enhancing food production in urban and peri-urban areas as well as connection with rural areas (such as the concept of agricultural parks).<br />
• What solutions can be adapted or implemented in Tartu county? How and why?<br />
• How can these areas be governed and managed in a sustainable, inclusive, and multifunctional way?<br />
• How can the interests of all defined stakeholders be strategically connected?<br />
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Summary in the form of the strategic plan description and/or drawings/maps/plans</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=665AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-02-20T12:45:11Z<p>Admin: /* Registration is now closed */</p>
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<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
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Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
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==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person.<br />
Those who still want to benefit from the course can view the presentations and recordings, which will be available after each session. These will be presented on the bottom of this page. [[https://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php/Seminar_schedule_2023|Presentations and recordings of the previous course in 2023 can be found here]].<br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.<br />
<br />
=Phases and sessions of the course=<br />
Here you will find the presentations and recordings after each session. Those of the [[Seminar_schedule_2023|previous seminar in 2023 can be found here.]]<br />
<br />
==Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024==<br />
<br />
soon to be published</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=664AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-02-20T12:44:16Z<p>Admin: /* Registration is now closed */</p>
<hr />
<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person.<br />
Those who still want to benefit from the course can view the presentations and recordings, which will be available after each session. These will be presented on the bottom of this page. Presentations and recordings of the previous course in 2023 can be found here.<br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.<br />
<br />
=Phases and sessions of the course=<br />
Here you will find the presentations and recordings after each session. Those of the [[Seminar_schedule_2023|previous seminar in 2023 can be found here.]]<br />
<br />
==Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024==<br />
<br />
soon to be published</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=663AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-02-20T12:27:48Z<p>Admin: /* Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024 */</p>
<hr />
<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person. <br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.<br />
<br />
=Phases and sessions of the course=<br />
Here you will find the presentations and recordings after each session. Those of the [[Seminar_schedule_2023|previous seminar in 2023 can be found here.]]<br />
<br />
==Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024==<br />
<br />
soon to be published</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=662AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-02-20T12:27:03Z<p>Admin: </p>
<hr />
<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person. <br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.<br />
<br />
=Phases and sessions of the course=<br />
Here you will find the presentations and recordings after each session. Those of the [[Seminar_schedule_2023|previous seminar in 2023 can be found here.]]<br />
<br />
==Phase 1 - exploring the field of play - sessions on February 29 and March 7, 2024==</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=661AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-02-20T12:26:01Z<p>Admin: /* Phases and sessions of the course */</p>
<hr />
<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person. <br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.<br />
<br />
=Phases and sessions of the course=<br />
Here you will find the presentations and recordings after each session. Those of the [[Seminar_schedule_2023|previous seminar in 2023 can be found here.]]</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=660AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-02-20T12:25:09Z<p>Admin: </p>
<hr />
<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person. <br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.<br />
<br />
=Phases and sessions of the course=<br />
Here you will find the presentations and recordings after each session. Those of the previous seminar in 2023 can be found here.</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=659AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-02-20T12:21:30Z<p>Admin: </p>
<hr />
<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person. <br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# A[[Assignments_2024|ssignments (5 ECTS):]] Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=658AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-02-20T12:20:08Z<p>Admin: </p>
<hr />
<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person. <br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# Assignments (5 ECTS): Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP4Food_seminar_2024&diff=657AESOP4Food seminar 20242024-02-20T12:13:28Z<p>Admin: </p>
<hr />
<div>=A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Food System Resilience Planning=<br />
<br />
Discover the future of sustainable food planning with the AESOP4FOOD Erasmus+ program in 2024 an engaging online open course that's designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering a transdisciplinary and participatory learning experience.<br />
<br />
==Registration is now closed==<br />
All applicants who have registered are accepted. Students of partner schools, of the Tartu, and the Bucharest living lab can address themselves for additional registration to their university contact person. <br />
<br />
==Content and schedule==<br />
Key concepts: Agroecological Urbanism, Regional Agroecological Food Systems, Multi-level Governance, Food Justice, and Democracy.<br />
<br />
Join us on Thursdays from 17:00 CET for 10 sessions with 2 presentations for assignments. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:AESOP4Food 2024 schedule.jpg|150dpi]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''International Collaboration:''' Embrace the opportunity to collaborate with international participants, each bringing their unique background and expertise from planning disciplines, agronomy, environmental sciences, and related fields. <br />
<br />
'''Transdisciplinary Approach:''' Explore the theoretical foundations, case studies, and project presentations and engage in transdisciplinary learning, facilitated by Participatory Action Learning Research and Action Learning Research (PALAR). <br />
<br />
'''Flexible:''' Learners, teachers, and teams can integrate this course into their own studio, project work or capacity building while formulating their own assignments.<br />
This approach is supported by a series of Living Labs focusing on food resilience.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Forms of Participation==<br />
# Lectures and Discussions: Attend insightful lectures and engage in stimulating discussions to expand your knowledge.<br />
# Assignments (5 ECTS): Dive deeper into sustainable food planning by working on practical assignments. Collaborate with small teams focused on Living Labs or projects, benefit from additional tutoring and feedback sessions, and present your results in intermediary sessions.</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=AESOP_for_Food_Team&diff=656AESOP for Food Team2024-02-13T11:58:51Z<p>Admin: </p>
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<div>This collaboration consists of institutes of higher education and NGOs from Spain, France, Belgium, and Poland. <br />
<br />
The project is coordinated by Stichting LE:NOTRE Institute (NL) that fosters the development of knowledge in the field of landscape. <br />
<br />
== Partnering Institutions ==<br />
'''LE:NOTRE Institute (coordinating institution)''' an international foundation based in Wageningen, Netherlands<br />
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'''Polytechnical University of Madrid''' - Madrid, Spain<br />
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'''Spanish network of municipalities for agroecology''' - Spain<br />
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'''Ghent University''' - Ghent, Belgium<br />
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'''Warsaw University of Life Sciences''' - Warsaw, Poland<br />
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'''Pracownia Dóbr Wspólnych''' - Poland<br />
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'''Montpellier Supagro''' - France<br />
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'''Terres en Villes''' - France<br />
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|[[File:LNI logo.jpeg|200px]]|| The LE:NOTRE Institute –shares its expertise, network, and e-learning facilities and thus support substantially the implementation of all planned activities. Its expertise includes methods and tools for democratic planning and design, co-creation of landscape knowledge and landscape objectives, and the implementation of student-centered and highly interactive e-learning courses. This expertise will be required for designing and implementing the course development and designing the blended learning elements.<br />
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|[[File:Jeroen de Vreis.jpg|200px]]|| Ir Jeroen de Vries, landscape architect, is a researcher and the Chair at the LE:NOTRE Institute. He researches the design of foodscapes in metropolitan areas, the productivity of different typologies of UA, and strategies to integrate these in the spatial design of urban and peri-urban areas. Jeroen combines work as a professional practitioner, lecturer, and researcher. He coordinated the theme of foodscapes in the LE:NOTRE Landscape Forums in Rome, Zagreb, and Bratislava. His mission is to foster the development of local food systems.<br />
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|[[File:Roxana triboi.jpg|200px]]|| Roxana Triboi is a PhD architect and urban planner, specialised on sustainable food planning, food policy, nature-based solution, urban agriculture, participatory planning and transdisciplinary action research and teaching. Currently, beside coordinating the AESOP4food ERASMUS+ program for LE:NOTRE Institute, she is also the food thematic evaluator of the European Urban Agenda for EUI.<br />
Her professional experience revolves around the urban-productive-nature paradigm and includes, among others, involvement in diverse European projects on NBS, social inclusion, participatory planning and climate change, consultancy for different Territorial Food Strategies and managing a community garden. Amongst other things she held and contributed to a series of conferences and seminars on food planning and urban pastoralism like the international conference “Food Urbanism” in Tartu (2018), Decolonizing food systems and food research (2017, ) and AESOP sustainable food planning conference (2015, 2022).<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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|[[File:Polytechnical University of Madrid.png|200px]]||Universidad Politecnica de Madrid- focused on “Urbanism and Agrarian Systems” in which practical tools to integrate peri-urban agrarian areas in urban and territorial planning, as well as models and methodologies to assess and guide the design of sustainable food systems have been developed.<br />
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|[[File:Marian.jpg|200px]]|| Marian Simón-Rojo is Dr. architect, Adjunct Professor at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid). She has participated in different R&D projects dealing with spatial planning of ecosystem services and sustainable food systems: PAEC-Sp (Periurban Agrarian ECosystems in Spatial Planning), COST Action Urban Agriculture Europe, or the EraNet2 DIVERCROP. She oversees the Operational Group PAUSA (Research Platform on Organic Agriculture, Urbanism, and Food Systems). As an urban planner, she was responsible for the design of Madrid’s Food Strategy 2018.2020 and works with the Regional Government of Madrid in the recovery of abandoned agrarian land in peri urban areas.<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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|[[File:Logo red mun por.jpg|200px]]|| Founded in 2018 and composed by 22 municipalities, Red de Municipios por la Agroecología is an association of Local Authorities to promote sustainable and healthy food policies aligned with Agroecology. The network brings together policymakers, politicians and social organizations in order to support cities in the development and implementation of local food policies, through creating multi-actor Communities of Practices on different issues (e.g., health and right to food, green public procurement, legal protection of peri urban agricultural land or participatory governance processes and also enhancing P2P cooperation and political engagement. It also develops a strong activity on awareness raising oriented both to politicians (at local and national levels) and citizenships, and on sustainable food advocacy international levels, promoting processes such as the Glasgow Declaration on ‘Food and Climate’ (COP26, Glasgow 2021) or the World Sustainable Food Capital Barcelona 2021.<br />
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|[[File:JMolero-300x300.jpg|200px]]|| Jorge Molero Cortés is an Agricultural Engineer, MSc in Agroecology. Member of the Entretantos Foundation (Valladolid, Spain) and Technical Coordinator of the Red de Ciudades por la Agroecología (Spanish Cities Network for Agroecology), where he works since 2018 supporting Local Governments to achieve their Food Policies Strategies and Planning. During his professional life, he has combined consultancy, research and training with organic food production. He is specialized in economic, environmental and social sustainability of Associative and Cooperative Short Food Supply Channels,working through participation with governance and technical procedures, practices and tools.<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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|[[File:Ghent University.png|200px]]|| Ghent, University, Dept. Architecture and Planning – incorporation of urban theories and theories of urbanization within the fields of planning and design, moving away from normative design theory. Including systematic work on planning and design models to address the urbanisation of food<br />
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|[[File:Michiel.jpg|200px]]|| Michiel Dehaene (1971) is Associate Professor in Urbanism at the department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Ghent University where he leads his own research group and teaches courses in urban analysis and design. He holds a master’s degree in engineering-architecture (KULeuven 1994), a Master of Architecture in Urban Design (Harvard University 1996) and a PhD in Architecture and Urbanism (KULeuven 2002). His work focusses on sub-urban renewal, the (planning)history of dispersed urban development, sustainable cities, and food planning. His long-term research has been structured around the incorporation of urban theories and theories of urbanization within the fields of planning and design, moving away from normative design theory. This includes systematic work on urban development models and territorial strategies that support the agroecological production of food. With Chiara Tornaghi he leads the JPI SUGI Urbanising in Place project on the development of an Agroecological Urbanism.<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
|[[File:SGGW.png|200px]]|| The Institute conducts scientific research on the relationship between nutrition and health and quality of life, including the evaluation of food products in terms of health, consumer needs and behavior regarding the level and quality of consumed food and catering services, as well as the economics of the household and the functioning of the food market in Poland against the background other European Union countries. In addition, employees of the Institute cooperate with numerous Polish and foreign or international organizations. Representatives of the Institute are involved in the activities of numerous non-governmental organizations, such as the Committee for Human Nutrition of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Committee for Cooperation with IUNS, the Polish Society of Nutritional Sciences, HINS-Polska, TERAZ POLSKA (in the field of food products), Polish Committee for Standardization, Polish Society of Food Technologists and actively participate in the dissemination of knowledge about human nutrition.<br />
Institute has more than 120 staff members and enrols more than 1500 students (full-time, part-time, postgraduate courses).<br />
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|[[File:Anna Podlasek.jpg|200px]]|| Assistant Professor in the Institute of Civil Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Head of the Department of Revitalization and Architecture. Doctor of agricultural sciences in the field of environmental protection and development. She is interested in the issues of environmental engineering and environmental protection, especially soil quality, water contamination, waste management, landfills and their impact on the environment. Involved in teaching activities in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering of WULS-SGGW. Principal Investigator in several research projects. <br />
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|[[File:Danuta.png|200px]]|| Professor Danuta Kołożyn-Krajewska - Research interests focus on the topics related to the health quality of food, microbiological aspects, prognostic microbiology, probiotics and prebiotics, meat technology, food hygiene, food quality and safety management systems, food waste risk analysis and sustainable development. In total, over 500 scientific and popular scientific works, textbooks and books, 10 patents. Member of the Food Sciences and Nutrition Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, head of the Food Safety Section, V-chairman of the Council for Rational Use of Food at the Federation of Polish Food Banks, member of the Scientific Councils of two research-development Institutes.<br />
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|[[File:Marzena.jpg|200px]]|| Dr Marzena Tomaszewska - Researcher at the Institute of Human Nutrition Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW. Member of the Food Safety Section - Food Sciences and Nutrition Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her scientific interests are are food safety and food security, food waste and loss in the food chain, organisation of foodservice establishments. She was a coordinator of hygiene section in didactic project "ABC of Healthy Eating" and one of the task of scientific and research expertise entitled "Diagnosis of the food system of the capital city of Warsaw" carried out for the Social Communication Center of the Warsaw City Hall.<br />
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|[[File:Beata.png|200px]]|| Dr hab. Beata Bilska - Assistant Professor at the Department of Food Gastronomy and Food Hygiene (Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW). She is a member of Polish Food Technologists’ Society. Her research focuses on the food waste and food losses in the food chain – the scale, causes, the possibility of limitations, food security, food quality assurance and food safety. She has participated in different scientific project financed by Polish institutions. She was the member of the consortium implementing the project on the rational use of food in the food chain, funded through the National Center of Research and Development.<br />
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|[[File:Alexandra.jpg|200px]]|| Dr. Aleksandra Nowysz is an architect and researcher of the Department of Revitalization and Architecture at Warsaw University of Life Sciences. She obtained her Ph.D. in Architecture and Urban Planning on urban agriculture architecture (TU Wroclaw). The author of photographic projects devoted to vernacular architecture and landscapes. She combines research, teaching and design practice with visual art and social engagements. She was a participant of the Open Design School – a pillar project for Matera as the European Capital of Culture. She was a curator of the ”City-Garden-Community” exhibition about community gardening in Poland, which was displayed in “ROD Pratulinska Garden” in Warsaw. <br />
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|[[File:Koda.jpg|200px]]|| Prof. Eugeniusz Koda is a geotechnical engineer and professor at Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Poland. He has gained his professional and research experience since 1984. Areas of his principal research interest and expertise embrace remedial works on brownfields and contaminated sites; groundwater flow and transport modelling of pollutants; environmental risk assessment; soil and groundwater environmental protection systems. Actively cooperates with Polish and international companies of environmental and civil engineering profiles. His teaching activities is in the fields of Soil Mechanics, Waste Management, Land Degradation and Recultivation, Soil Contamination, Soil Treatment Technology, Sustainable Development and Landfills. He is a Member of Management Committees of COST Action TU1202 “Impact of climate change on engineered slopes for infrastructure” and COST Action CA18135 “Fire in the Earth System: Science & Society”.<br />
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|[[File:Magdalena.png|200px]]|| Assoc. Prof. Magdalena Daria Vaverková - investigator at Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic and Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland. Her scientific activity covers issues in the field of environmental protection and development. She is concerned with issues related to the impact of processes and behaviours resulting from the production and processing of various types of waste on the state of the environment. The main subject of her scientific interests are waste management, waste utilization, reclamation and remediation of degraded areas, food waste assessment, and assessment of the impact of human activity on the environment. <br />
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||| Maciej Łepkowski is animator, gardener and researcher. In 2022 he graduated as a PhD at the Department of Landscape Art at Warsaw University of Life Sciences, where he deals with the topic of cities' renaturalization and informal urban green spaces. Master of Philosophy, graduate of postgraduate studies "Public Space / Art / Democracy. Relations and Opportunities" at the SWPS University of Humanities. An active participant of the Open Jazdów - Partnership for the Jazdów Estate, among others he co-implemented the Community-management model for Jazdów Settlement project, financed by the European Cultural Foundation. Co-creator of community gardens - in Olsztyn, Dortmund and Warsaw, curator and coordinator of the Green Jazdów 2013/2014 project carried out by the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, co-organizer of the 1st International Congress of Community Gardens Creators as part of the Malta Festival in Poznań in 2014. A member of the Parque-No collective implementing projects on the border of art and social animation focused on the subject of garden and nature. He also gained organizational and design experience while working for the BORIS Association, where he coordinated a large, three-year project, financed from the European structural funds, devoted to the social economy (OWiES Social Economy Initiatives Support Center). He co-created and co-coordinated the Bujna Warszawa community gardens support program (2017 - 2021).<br />
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|[[File:Pracownia Dóbr Wspólnych.png|200px]]|| Pracownia Dóbr Wspólnych is a platform for action, creating and developing practical alternatives in the face of visible and looming systemic social, ecological, economic and other problems on the horizon. To meet them, the platform sees the need to experiment with new models of life, work and sharing. They support (or want to support) local currencies, municipal gardening, cooperatives and other forms of co-ownership, protection of environmentally and socially valuable resources. They are also interested in activities reviving democracy at the local level. https://jazdow.pl/domki/3-9/<br />
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|[[File:Montpellier Supagro 12.jpg|200px]]|| Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement, the institut Agro, is a French public institution devoted to higher education and research in Agriculture, Food and Environment. The Institute has been created in January 2020, resulting from the merger of two higher education institutions, Agrocampus Ouest (Rennes) and Montpellier SupAgro (formerly F MONTPEL10). Montpellier SupAgro is also now one of the two internal schools of Institut Agro.<br />
The school in Montpellier is widely open to international issues and partnerships, with specific focus and recognized expertise on southern and Mediterranean areas. In 2011 it created a Chair in World Food Systems (WFS), labeled by UNESCO within the framework of the international Unitwin/UNESCO Chairs programme, in partnership with Agropolis International institutions.<br />
The aim of this Chair is to increase and disseminate academic and empirical knowledge on world food systems (in particular urban food systems), their diversity, their dynamics and their human and environmental impacts from the standpoint of sustainable development: qualitative improvement of food diets, reduced access to food inequalities, food production systems and optimized logistics, limiting food waste and recycling waste streams locally, feeding practices, etc.<br />
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|[[File:Damien.jpg|200px]]|| Damien Conaré, agronomist, is the Secretary-General of the UNESCO Chair on World Food System, at Montpellier SupAgro (The French National Institute of Higher Education in Agricultural Sciences). This Chair has specialized in city-region food systems through educational training, the valorisation of research projects (URBAL and Foodscapes), and the dissemination of knowledge through conferences and publications. Damien was one of the co-editors of the book « Designing Urban Food Policies ” (Springer, 2019). www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030139575<br />
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|[[File:Terres en Villes.png|200px]]||Terres en villes is an NGO network created in 2000 gathering 27 cities willing to exchange their knowledge and mutualize their approaches in the fields of food planning.<br />
Terres en villes is the French network of Food and Agriculture policy actors. Created in 2000, the association now gathers 25 cities willing to exchange their knowledge and mutualize their approaches in the fields of food planning. <br />
Terres en villes pursues three missions: Promote the know-how exchanges between its members, stimulate experimentation, and enrich the debate on city, its agriculture and its food system. <br />
These three missions are led by four categories of activities: The co-construction of agricultural and food policies, The protection and joint management of peri-urban agriculture, forest and natural sites, Agricultural economy and food governance in cities and metropolis, Europe, and decentralised cooperation. <br />
Terres en villes is a place for exchanges, discussions and debates, for co-producing knowledge and methodologies and developing new ideas. By favoring a dialogue between stakeholders and researchers, between France and other European countries, Terres en villes can provide analysis and original tools such as national observation of territorial food projects, policy evaluation, integration of agriculture and food in planning tools. <br />
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<div>This collaboration consists of institutes of higher education and NGOs from Spain, France, Belgium, and Poland. <br />
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The project is coordinated by Stichting LE:NOTRE Institute (NL) that fosters the development of knowledge in the field of landscape. <br />
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== Partnering Institutions ==<br />
'''LE:NOTRE Institute (coordinating institution)''' an international foundation based in Wageningen, Netherlands<br />
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'''Polytechnical University of Madrid''' - Madrid, Spain<br />
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'''Spanish network of municipalities for agroecology''' - Spain<br />
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'''Ghent University''' - Ghent, Belgium<br />
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'''Warsaw University of Life Sciences''' - Warsaw, Poland<br />
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'''Pracownia Dóbr Wspólnych''' - Poland<br />
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'''Montpellier Supagro''' - France<br />
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'''Terres en Villes''' - France<br />
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|[[File:LNI logo.jpeg|200px]]|| The LE:NOTRE Institute –shares its expertise, network, and e-learning facilities and thus support substantially the implementation of all planned activities. Its expertise includes methods and tools for democratic planning and design, co-creation of landscape knowledge and landscape objectives, and the implementation of student-centered and highly interactive e-learning courses. This expertise will be required for designing and implementing the course development and designing the blended learning elements.<br />
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|[[File:Jeroen de Vreis.jpg|200px]]|| Ir Jeroen de Vries, landscape architect, is a researcher and the Chair at the LE:NOTRE Institute. He researches the design of foodscapes in metropolitan areas, the productivity of different typologies of UA, and strategies to integrate these in the spatial design of urban and peri-urban areas. Jeroen combines work as a professional practitioner, lecturer, and researcher. He coordinated the theme of foodscapes in the LE:NOTRE Landscape Forums in Rome, Zagreb, and Bratislava. His mission is to foster the development of local food systems.<br />
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|[[File:Roxana triboi.jpg|200px]]|| Roxana Triboi is a PhD architect and urban planner, specialised on sustainable food planning, food policy, nature-based solution, urban agriculture, participatory planning and transdisciplinary action research and teaching. Currently, beside coordinating the AESOP4food ERASMUS+ program for LE:NOTRE Institute, she is also the food thematic evaluator of the European Urban Agenda for EUI.<br />
Her professional experience revolves around the urban-productive-nature paradigm and includes, among others, involvement in diverse European projects on NBS, social inclusion, participatory planning and climate change, consultancy for different Territorial Food Strategies and managing a community garden. Amongst other things she held and contributed to a series of conferences and seminars on food planning and urban pastoralism like the international conference “Food Urbanism” in Tartu (2018), Decolonizing food systems and food research (2017, ) and AESOP sustainable food planning conference (2015, 2022).<br />
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|[[File:Polytechnical University of Madrid.png|200px]]||Universidad Politecnica de Madrid- focused on “Urbanism and Agrarian Systems” in which practical tools to integrate peri-urban agrarian areas in urban and territorial planning, as well as models and methodologies to assess and guide the design of sustainable food systems have been developed.<br />
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|[[File:Marian.jpg|200px]]|| Marian Simón-Rojo is Dr. architect, Adjunct Professor at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid). She has participated in different R&D projects dealing with spatial planning of ecosystem services and sustainable food systems: PAEC-Sp (Periurban Agrarian ECosystems in Spatial Planning), COST Action Urban Agriculture Europe, or the EraNet2 DIVERCROP. She oversees the Operational Group PAUSA (Research Platform on Organic Agriculture, Urbanism, and Food Systems). As an urban planner, she was responsible for the design of Madrid’s Food Strategy 2018.2020 and works with the Regional Government of Madrid in the recovery of abandoned agrarian land in peri urban areas.<br />
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|[[File:Logo red mun por.jpg|200px]]|| Founded in 2018 and composed by 22 municipalities, Red de Municipios por la Agroecología is an association of Local Authorities to promote sustainable and healthy food policies aligned with Agroecology. The network brings together policymakers, politicians and social organizations in order to support cities in the development and implementation of local food policies, through creating multi-actor Communities of Practices on different issues (e.g., health and right to food, green public procurement, legal protection of peri urban agricultural land or participatory governance processes and also enhancing P2P cooperation and political engagement. It also develops a strong activity on awareness raising oriented both to politicians (at local and national levels) and citizenships, and on sustainable food advocacy international levels, promoting processes such as the Glasgow Declaration on ‘Food and Climate’ (COP26, Glasgow 2021) or the World Sustainable Food Capital Barcelona 2021.<br />
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|[[File:JMolero-300x300.jpg|200px]]|| Jorge Molero Cortés is an Agricultural Engineer, MSc in Agroecology. Member of the Entretantos Foundation (Valladolid, Spain) and Technical Coordinator of the Red de Ciudades por la Agroecología (Spanish Cities Network for Agroecology), where he works since 2018 supporting Local Governments to achieve their Food Policies Strategies and Planning. During his professional life, he has combined consultancy, research and training with organic food production. He is specialized in economic, environmental and social sustainability of Associative and Cooperative Short Food Supply Channels,working through participation with governance and technical procedures, practices and tools.<br />
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|[[File:Ghent University.png|200px]]|| Ghent, University, Dept. Architecture and Planning – incorporation of urban theories and theories of urbanization within the fields of planning and design, moving away from normative design theory. Including systematic work on planning and design models to address the urbanisation of food<br />
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|[[File:Michiel.jpg|200px]]|| Michiel Dehaene (1971) is Associate Professor in Urbanism at the department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Ghent University where he leads his own research group and teaches courses in urban analysis and design. He holds a master’s degree in engineering-architecture (KULeuven 1994), a Master of Architecture in Urban Design (Harvard University 1996) and a PhD in Architecture and Urbanism (KULeuven 2002). His work focusses on sub-urban renewal, the (planning)history of dispersed urban development, sustainable cities, and food planning. His long-term research has been structured around the incorporation of urban theories and theories of urbanization within the fields of planning and design, moving away from normative design theory. This includes systematic work on urban development models and territorial strategies that support the agroecological production of food. With Chiara Tornaghi he leads the JPI SUGI Urbanising in Place project on the development of an Agroecological Urbanism.<br />
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|[[File:SGGW.png|200px]]|| The Institute conducts scientific research on the relationship between nutrition and health and quality of life, including the evaluation of food products in terms of health, consumer needs and behavior regarding the level and quality of consumed food and catering services, as well as the economics of the household and the functioning of the food market in Poland against the background other European Union countries. In addition, employees of the Institute cooperate with numerous Polish and foreign or international organizations. Representatives of the Institute are involved in the activities of numerous non-governmental organizations, such as the Committee for Human Nutrition of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Committee for Cooperation with IUNS, the Polish Society of Nutritional Sciences, HINS-Polska, TERAZ POLSKA (in the field of food products), Polish Committee for Standardization, Polish Society of Food Technologists and actively participate in the dissemination of knowledge about human nutrition.<br />
Institute has more than 120 staff members and enrols more than 1500 students (full-time, part-time, postgraduate courses).<br />
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|[[File:Anna Podlasek.jpg|200px]]|| Assistant Professor in the Institute of Civil Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Head of the Department of Revitalization and Architecture. Doctor of agricultural sciences in the field of environmental protection and development. She is interested in the issues of environmental engineering and environmental protection, especially soil quality, water contamination, waste management, landfills and their impact on the environment. Involved in teaching activities in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering of WULS-SGGW. Principal Investigator in several research projects. <br />
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|[[File:Danuta.png|200px]]|| Professor Danuta Kołożyn-Krajewska - Research interests focus on the topics related to the health quality of food, microbiological aspects, prognostic microbiology, probiotics and prebiotics, meat technology, food hygiene, food quality and safety management systems, food waste risk analysis and sustainable development. In total, over 500 scientific and popular scientific works, textbooks and books, 10 patents. Member of the Food Sciences and Nutrition Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, head of the Food Safety Section, V-chairman of the Council for Rational Use of Food at the Federation of Polish Food Banks, member of the Scientific Councils of two research-development Institutes.<br />
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|[[File:Marzena.jpg|200px]]|| Dr Marzena Tomaszewska - Researcher at the Institute of Human Nutrition Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW. Member of the Food Safety Section - Food Sciences and Nutrition Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her scientific interests are are food safety and food security, food waste and loss in the food chain, organisation of foodservice establishments. She was a coordinator of hygiene section in didactic project "ABC of Healthy Eating" and one of the task of scientific and research expertise entitled "Diagnosis of the food system of the capital city of Warsaw" carried out for the Social Communication Center of the Warsaw City Hall.<br />
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|[[File:Beata.png|200px]]|| Dr hab. Beata Bilska - Assistant Professor at the Department of Food Gastronomy and Food Hygiene (Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW). She is a member of Polish Food Technologists’ Society. Her research focuses on the food waste and food losses in the food chain – the scale, causes, the possibility of limitations, food security, food quality assurance and food safety. She has participated in different scientific project financed by Polish institutions. She was the member of the consortium implementing the project on the rational use of food in the food chain, funded through the National Center of Research and Development.<br />
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|[[File:Alexandra.jpg|200px]]|| Dr. Aleksandra Nowysz is an architect and researcher of the Department of Revitalization and Architecture at Warsaw University of Life Sciences. She obtained her Ph.D. in Architecture and Urban Planning on urban agriculture architecture (TU Wroclaw). The author of photographic projects devoted to vernacular architecture and landscapes. She combines research, teaching and design practice with visual art and social engagements. She was a participant of the Open Design School – a pillar project for Matera as the European Capital of Culture. She was a curator of the ”City-Garden-Community” exhibition about community gardening in Poland, which was displayed in “ROD Pratulinska Garden” in Warsaw. <br />
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|[[File:Koda.jpg|200px]]|| Prof. Eugeniusz Koda is a geotechnical engineer and professor at Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Poland. He has gained his professional and research experience since 1984. Areas of his principal research interest and expertise embrace remedial works on brownfields and contaminated sites; groundwater flow and transport modelling of pollutants; environmental risk assessment; soil and groundwater environmental protection systems. Actively cooperates with Polish and international companies of environmental and civil engineering profiles. His teaching activities is in the fields of Soil Mechanics, Waste Management, Land Degradation and Recultivation, Soil Contamination, Soil Treatment Technology, Sustainable Development and Landfills. He is a Member of Management Committees of COST Action TU1202 “Impact of climate change on engineered slopes for infrastructure” and COST Action CA18135 “Fire in the Earth System: Science & Society”.<br />
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|[[File:Magdalena.png|200px]]|| Assoc. Prof. Magdalena Daria Vaverková - investigator at Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic and Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland. Her scientific activity covers issues in the field of environmental protection and development. She is concerned with issues related to the impact of processes and behaviours resulting from the production and processing of various types of waste on the state of the environment. The main subject of her scientific interests are waste management, waste utilization, reclamation and remediation of degraded areas, food waste assessment, and assessment of the impact of human activity on the environment. <br />
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||| Maciej Łepkowski is animator, gardener and researcher. In 2022 he graduated as a PhD at the Department of Landscape Art at Warsaw University of Life Sciences, where he deals with the topic of cities' renaturalization and informal urban green spaces. Master of Philosophy, graduate of postgraduate studies "Public Space / Art / Democracy. Relations and Opportunities" at the SWPS University of Humanities. An active participant of the Open Jazdów - Partnership for the Jazdów Estate, among others he co-implemented the Community-management model for Jazdów Settlement project, financed by the European Cultural Foundation. Co-creator of community gardens - in Olsztyn, Dortmund and Warsaw, curator and coordinator of the Green Jazdów 2013/2014 project carried out by the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, co-organizer of the 1st International Congress of Community Gardens Creators as part of the Malta Festival in Poznań in 2014. A member of the Parque-No collective implementing projects on the border of art and social animation focused on the subject of garden and nature. He also gained organizational and design experience while working for the BORIS Association, where he coordinated a large, three-year project, financed from the European structural funds, devoted to the social economy (OWiES Social Economy Initiatives Support Center). He co-created and co-coordinated the Bujna Warszawa community gardens support program (2017 - 2021).<br />
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|[[File:Pracownia Dóbr Wspólnych.png|200px]]|| Pracownia Dóbr Wspólnych is a platform for action, creating and developing practical alternatives in the face of visible and looming systemic social, ecological, economic and other problems on the horizon. To meet them, the platform sees the need to experiment with new models of life, work and sharing. They support (or want to support) local currencies, municipal gardening, cooperatives and other forms of co-ownership, protection of environmentally and socially valuable resources. They are also interested in activities reviving democracy at the local level. https://jazdow.pl/domki/3-9/<br />
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|[[File:Montpellier Supagro 12.jpg|200px]]|| Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement, the institut Agro, is a French public institution devoted to higher education and research in Agriculture, Food and Environment. The Institute has been created in January 2020, resulting from the merger of two higher education institutions, Agrocampus Ouest (Rennes) and Montpellier SupAgro (formerly F MONTPEL10). Montpellier SupAgro is also now one of the two internal schools of Institut Agro.<br />
The school in Montpellier is widely open to international issues and partnerships, with specific focus and recognized expertise on southern and Mediterranean areas. In 2011 it created a Chair in World Food Systems (WFS), labeled by UNESCO within the framework of the international Unitwin/UNESCO Chairs programme, in partnership with Agropolis International institutions.<br />
The aim of this Chair is to increase and disseminate academic and empirical knowledge on world food systems (in particular urban food systems), their diversity, their dynamics and their human and environmental impacts from the standpoint of sustainable development: qualitative improvement of food diets, reduced access to food inequalities, food production systems and optimized logistics, limiting food waste and recycling waste streams locally, feeding practices, etc.<br />
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|[[File:Damien.jpg|200px]]|| Damien Conaré, agronomist, is the Secretary-General of the UNESCO Chair on World Food System, at Montpellier SupAgro (The French National Institute of Higher Education in Agricultural Sciences). This Chair has specialized in city-region food systems through educational training, the valorisation of research projects (URBAL and Foodscapes), and the dissemination of knowledge through conferences and publications. Damien was one of the co-editors of the book « Designing Urban Food Policies ” (Springer, 2019). www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030139575<br />
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|[[File:Terres en Villes.png|200px]]||Terres en villes is an NGO network created in 2000 gathering 27 cities willing to exchange their knowledge and mutualize their approaches in the fields of food planning.<br />
Terres en villes is the French network of Food and Agriculture policy actors. Created in 2000, the association now gathers 25 cities willing to exchange their knowledge and mutualize their approaches in the fields of food planning. <br />
Terres en villes pursues three missions: Promote the know-how exchanges between its members, stimulate experimentation, and enrich the debate on city, its agriculture and its food system. <br />
These three missions are led by four categories of activities: The co-construction of agricultural and food policies, The protection and joint management of peri-urban agriculture, forest and natural sites, Agricultural economy and food governance in cities and metropolis, Europe, and decentralised cooperation. <br />
Terres en villes is a place for exchanges, discussions and debates, for co-producing knowledge and methodologies and developing new ideas. By favoring a dialogue between stakeholders and researchers, between France and other European countries, Terres en villes can provide analysis and original tools such as national observation of territorial food projects, policy evaluation, integration of agriculture and food in planning tools. <br />
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=Living Labs in development=<br />
The presented living lab subjects and questions are in development. If you participate in assignment mode, you can also define your own research question or the aim of your assignment. You need to send that in the survey you received before February 16, 2024. After that date, it is only possible to participate in the course in lecture mode.<br />
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= Montpellier « Changes in a neighbourhood's* food environment with the arrival of a new tramway line » Living Lab /France=<br />
*Neighbourhood under definition, in partnership with INRAE and Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole<br />
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==Context==<br />
Food environments can be defined as the “physical, economic, political and socio-cultural context in which consumers engage with the food system to make their decisions about acquiring, preparing and consuming food”.<br />
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In contrast to the ‘consumer choice model’ (founded on the idea that awareness raising and education about better food choices will make people change their food behaviour), the ‘food environment approach’ recognises that the choices we make about food and the impacts they have are, to a significant degree, shaped by the contexts within which they are made. Following from that, it recognises that the most effective and equitable way to change food behaviours is to change the structural factors that drive food choice, among which are aspects of the built environment. As they affect access to food entry points, including the distance to food outlets, and the availability of physical infrastructures, such as public transport networks, etc.<br />
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Local players can therefore act on the environment to encourage more sustainable and healthier eating habits, by improving accessibility to the entire food offer: shops, restaurants, markets, and points of sale.<br />
Montpellier's tramway network already comprises 4 lines. A 5th line, 20 km long, is currently under construction and will cross the city and serve the neighbourhood cities of Greater Montpellier by 2025. With this 5th line, the Metropole offers a new North/South-West diagonal to its network, linking its transport network even more finely and extensively.<br />
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Urban development projects and other public policies (linked to transport or the commercial offer, for example) often modify food landscapes. Their impact on household food supply practices is, however, poorly understood, and may vary according to the social, demographic, and economic characteristics of populations and territories. To better understand these spatio-temporal dynamics, the first step is to describe and characterize food landscapes (or environments) and their evolution.<br />
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==Assignment questions for local students==<br />
In a specific neighborhood of the Montpellier metropolitan area, the idea is to carry out a field survey to determine a diagnosis of food environments and how they are evolving: <br />
* Define the urban and social characteristics of the area in question<br />
* Mapping current food landscapes: the neighborhood food offer<br />
* Outlook on the evolution of these food landscapes with the arrival of the 5th tramway line<br />
* Recommendations for new developments around the tramway line<br />
This survey is part of a larger project, on a metropolitan scale, being carried out by a research team and players in Montpellier's Agroecological and Food Policy (Politique Agroécologique et Alimentaire).<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote students==<br />
* Review of literature and case studies on the impact of transport infrastructure projects on the evolution of food environments<br />
* Depending on the social and urban characteristics of the selected neighborhood: what ways can be found to improve its food environments?<br />
<br />
Mastering French to a certain extent is a preference since much of the references and stakeholder responses will be in French, a comparative case study of other countries can of course be carried out in English.<br />
<br />
=Warsaw “MOST Urban Farm” Living Lab/Poland=<br />
==Production and collaboration with local farmers==<br />
Short video presentation, Short pdf description 2023-01_MOST_LL_en, Extended description<br />
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FZvY1t1ptUOfIXTSJ8XrFWJecCt6WlrU/view?usp=sharing<br />
<br />
The Warsaw Urban Farm initiative was born out of the need to prepare the city for the upcoming effects of the environmental and food crises. Our goal is to create a local center for agro-ecological education and food production, and to develop and network future leaders in the field of sustainable food planning to contribute locally to food security and a healthier environment.<br />
To strengthen the city's resilience, we want to establish Warsaw's first farm (MOST), which will also be an incubator for further initiatives in the area of sustainable food system of Warsaw and surrounding suburban and rural areas.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for the local students== <br />
* In addition to finances, what are the potential benefits of establishing the MOST farm in the selected location?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; analysis of spatial planning documents; field trip; spatial analysis; identifying key partners and stakeholders; identifying main problems and challenges faced by farmers operating in the selected area; SWOT analysis for the Warsaw agriculture of the upper Vistula)<br />
* What should be an economic model of the MOST farm?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trip; identifying main problems and challenges faced by farmers operating in the selected area; SWOT analysis for the Warsaw agriculture of the upper Vistula, developing an economic model )<br />
* Who are the stakeholders (municipality, neighbor community, involved institutions, and farmers) and what are their needs and influence?<br />
(methods: field trip; analysis of land ownership; identifying key partners and stakeholders; mapping all actors and their needs and power; define potential partnerships and alliances)<br />
* What is the attitude of local farmers towards urban agriculture initiatives, particularly MOST?<br />
(methods: field trip; mapping local farmers; interviews and questionnaires; designing a food hub)<br />
* What edible plants are the best to cultivate in MOST farm? Considering climate factors and socio-economic factors (production feasibility, retail). <br />
(methods: literature review; field trip; consultation with an expert)<br />
* What is the Warsaw municipality's attitude toward biodiversity? Is it only a cost of maintaining vacant lands or a food production opportunity?<br />
(methods: analysis of Municipality planning documents; interviews and questionnaires)<br />
* What are the regional rituals associated with agriculture and how to transfer them to an urban context?<br />
(methods: literature review; field trip; mapping local farmers; interviews and questionnaires; developing a proposal for an urban harvest celebration)<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for the remote students==<br />
* What should the coop urban farm include in its programme? What are the potential benefits (social, economic, environmental, others), and how to increase them?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trips)<br />
* What are the models of coop urban farms around the world? (Economic models, inner organization structures).<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trips)<br />
* What are the city's policies towards vacant lands considering its biodiversity and food production opportunities?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; analysis of Municipality planning documents; interviews and questionnaires)<br />
<br />
=Ghent "Agroecological Urbanism Future Heritage" Living Lab/ Belgium=<br />
Ghent University in collaboration with De Stadsacademie*, STA.M, ILVO<br />
De Stadsacademie is a collaboratorium dedicated to transdisciplinary research and teaching on complex and urgent sustainability challenges faced by the city and the University of Ghent. De Stadsacademie works on several ‘trajectories’ that define the thematic scope of its work over a series of years.<br />
<br />
==Starting with the Kitchen. Rethinking neighbourhood food systems from an agroecological perspective==<br />
To rethink and transform urban local food systems, the kitchen is a good place to start. Even in the highly commodified urban food system of a city like Ghent, the kitchen entertains a strong relation of proximity to the places of eating. That is true for the individual kitchens at home but is true for collective kitchen infrastructure. The kitchen is not only the place where food is prepared, It is also a place in which logic of consumption and production meet. This also makes the kitchen a place of potential solidarity between producers and consumers.<br />
In this year’s working cycle of the Living Lab, we will explore the agroecological transformation of neighbourhood food systems through the perspective of the community kitchen in the Bloemekenswijk in Ghent. While the Bloemekenswijk is historically part of the periphery of Ghent, it is today subject to new dynamics of urbanization that reposition the neighbourhood within the urban agglomeration and set up a new dialogue between local and supra-local relations. This gives an opportunity to think about the role of neighbourhood infrastructure in general and food infrastructure in particular. The neighbourhood contains an array of existing food initiatives that can be the starting point of an agroecological transformation of the food system. The focus will be in particular on the Bloemekenswijk, however, will include the documentation of initiatives in other neighbourhoods as well.<br />
<br />
We will be exploring different transformative pathways together with actors within the neighbourhood.<br />
* the possible connection of neighbourhood initiatives to farmland owned by the Public Center for Social Welfare (OCMW)<br />
* the possible coproduction between the existing social economy cluster (VZW Ateljee & Balenmagazijn) with social economy initiatives active in food production (De Loods in Aalst)<br />
* the possible creation of a food hub, supplying food to existing neighbourhood restaurants, institutional canteens, school kitchens, etc.<br />
* the transformation of the existing market (Van Beverenplein) as a public site of local food supply in co-creation with neighbourhood food initiatives<br />
* the reactivation of the bakery on the psychiatric campus Dr. Guislain<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote student==<br />
Students can choose between track A (literature review) or B (case study)<br />
===A.Literature review on neighborhood food systems and what makes them transformative===<br />
* What are the main drivers behind the creation of neighborhood food systems?<br />
* How can place-based initiatives be used to define solidarities that don’t remain limited to the local (and move beyond the local trap (Purcell 2006))?<br />
* How do local initiatives cope with the tension between ecological and social goals?<br />
* How can neighbourhood infrastructure be retooled to link up with local producers? What are the organizational and infrastructural implications of relying on direct supply?<br />
* How dependent are food support initiatives on surplus food and how do they seek to break that dependency?<br />
<br />
===B.Documentation, discussion of existing practices connecting neighbourhood food networks and infrastructures to local suppliers, and questions of access to land?===<br />
Examples around public catering within public institutes (schools, hospitals, care facilities…) that make a direct connection between public food provisioning, agroecological farmers, and land management.<br />
Examples of neighbourhood-based initiatives around food support and place-based solidarity in connection with agroecological farmers. We are particularly interested in community kitchen initiatives building a food sovereignty agenda together with agroecological producers.<br />
<br />
==The General Context of the Ghent Living Lab and Earlier Work==<br />
The urban food policy of the City of Ghent, Gent en Garde, has been the subject of international attention including several prestigious prizes. At the same time, the systematic sale of public farmland in the peri-urban fringe of Ghent has alienated new and traditional farmers who are upset about the systematic loss of farmland. Farmers are rapidly disappearing from the peri-urban fringe, and new farmers face great difficulty in establishing themselves. <br />
Within the context of De Stadsacademie* civil society actors, farmers, urban civil servants, students and researchers have been engaged in the development of alternative policies regarding publicly owned farmland, and agricultural heritage more generally. The land currently being sold off by the city is the fruit of historical investment in urban agricultural heritage that has been handed down over several generations and is part of the permanent improvements (infrastructure, public space, heritage landscapes, drainage systems, etc.) that made farming possible.<br />
Contemporary urban constituencies seem to care little for the future of this publicly owned farmland. In the political debate on the sale of public land urban social goals are played against ecological concerns and the protection of local farming activities. The land is presented as ‘fragmented’ and off little public interest, and sold to finance the development of residential care facilities for the elderly. The campaign against the sale of public farmland has led to a moratorium on further sales in the neighbouring municipalities of Ghent. in the meantime, the city is preparing a vision on Agricultural land use in the city and the wider region. Within De Stadsacademie we want to enter into a dialogue with parties that could help to articulate a shared agenda regarding the way in which the public ownership of farmland could be leveraged to accelerate an agroecological food transition. This will happen in the framework of an agroecological urbanism (www.agroecologicalurbanism.org), which is a way of urbanizing that actively supports the care for soils and the growing of food in an equitable and ecologically sustainable way. We will try to imagine new forms of urban infrastructure and future heritage that contribute to the local support of agroecological farmers and re-inscribe the farming activities within a new urban geography of farming.<br />
Last year we worked within the living lab on various fronts, exploring possible connections between local food policy initiatives and public land management. The results of last year’s local work in the living lab were documented in a series of video portraits: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5xVUeu3UV65ME7uF9RoRoNefUcVm3ba<br />
In July 2023 ‘De Stadacademie’ hosted the 2nd AESOP4FOOD Intensive Programme. A detailed programme of the IP can be found here: Programme IP Ghent - Future Heritage_Agroecological Urbanism<br />
This year we want to narrow the scope of the exercise and go deeper in one of the lines of investigation namely that of the community kitchen and the role of neighbourhood food infrastructure.<br />
part of this hypothesis has been explored in a master thesis that was produced in the context of ‘De Stadsacademie’. Master thesis Neighborfood<br />
<br />
=Madrid Agroecologico Living Lab/ Spain=<br />
<br />
==Circular Economy in Food Retail==<br />
It is easier to imagine an apple being integrated into a circular system than most of the consumer goods that surround us. It might be easier, but we are still far away from achieving circular loops in the food sector. The reasons are multiple, some of them are related to the global chains in which our current food system is embedded. We propose a Living Lab based on the assumption that with shorter food chains and more direct relationships between production and consumption, a shift into a circularity paradigm would be more feasible. <br />
The Living Lab Is conceived as a space for co-generation of applied knowledge together with the cooperative supermarket LA OSA and with the support of the [https://ciecmadrid.es International Center for Circular Economy (CIEC) of the Municipality of Madrid]. The main goal is to boost mechanisms of circular economy, to reduce both packaging and food waste, but also to enhance the recovery and reuse of packaging. The Living Lab responds to an interest expressed by the cooperative and its members, some of whom tried to set up a working group on these matters.<br />
We assume that short food supply chains are better positioned to adopt circularity, and the living lab should help the Cooperative Supermarket to have a diagnosis of the situation and to envision ways to transform and improve it, with the support of the CIEC which in turn, provide coaching and support to create innovative ecosystems.<br />
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==Research questions== <br />
* Is the cooperative supermarket better positioned to reduce the use of plastics in the commercialization of food?<br />
* What has been the impact of the measures adopted to reduce food waste and packaging waste?<br />
* Which are the bottlenecks of a transition into a (close to) zero plastic and zero waste model? For which part of the food consumer goods would that be easier?<br />
* Do agroecological projects and short supply chains perform better in terms of circularity? Which are their potentials to achieve circularity and how can they be enhanced?<br />
* Which are the implications in terms of spatial requirements and organizational operations associated with a shorter change embedded in circularity?<br />
<br />
==Research questions for remote students==<br />
<br />
* What are examples of good practices to enhance circular loops in the food chain, focussing on the production-distribution linkages?<br />
* Which are the key factors to replicate practices of regenerative food production embedded in closed loops?<br />
<br />
<br />
= A Living Lab for building a Local Food Strategy for the Bucharest District 6=<br />
<br />
==Introduction== <br />
Sector 6 of Bucharest is an administrative unit with diverse quarters like Crângași, Drumul Taberei, Ghencea, Giulești, Militari, and Regie. The sector covers 38 square kilometers, housing a population of 325,759 as of December 2021. It aims to become a smart and green city, with strategic plans for urban development. For more detailed information, you can visit the Wikipedia page on Sector 6 of Bucharest.<br />
[[File:Sector 6.png|thumb|right]]<br />
Bucharest's District 6 is starting a sustainable food strategy aimed at enhancing local production, decreasing environmental impacts, and fortifying community connections. This initiative proposes the creation of a living lab—a collaborative environment where citizens, researchers, policymakers, and businesses unite to tackle complex challenges within the local food system. <br />
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Expected Outcomes:<br />
* A detailed map of District 6's food ecosystem, with key players and their interactions.<br />
* Defining general objectives aligning with community needs and sustainability ambitions.<br />
* A shared vision for District 6's future food system, leading to a strategic plan and scalable pilot projects.<br />
[[File:Sector6detail.png|thumb|right]]<br />
<br />
==Objectives for local students==<br />
* Mapping the Local Food System: To catalog all participants in District 6's food system, including producers, distributors, retailers, consumers, and waste handlers, thereby identifying product flows, inefficiencies, and opportunities for sustainability.<br />
* Establishing General Objectives: To set comprehensive goals like reducing food transportation distances, improving food security, advocating for local and seasonal foods, and cutting down food waste.<br />
* Developing a Vision: To formulate a long-term outlook for District 6’s food system that embodies sustainability, community welfare, and economic health.<br />
* Creating a Strategy: To devise an actionable plan that includes innovative practices such as urban agriculture, food sharing initiatives, and circular economy principles, detailing both immediate and future steps, potential hurdles, and success indicators.<br />
<br />
==Research questions for remote students==<br />
# Integration: How can District 6's food strategy integrate with the broader city-region for mutual sustainability benefits?<br />
# Formation: What are the necessary steps and key players for establishing an effective local food council at the district level?<br />
# Objectives: In a post-socialist capital's context such as District 6, what are the primary goals for a local food strategy?<br />
# Engagement: What are the most effective methods for engaging residents in the local food system strategy?<br />
[[File:Sector6market.png|thumb]]<br />
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= A Living Lab in Tartu, Estonia=<br />
Tartu is the second biggest city in Estonia and is located in the southeast part of the country. Agriculture is an important aspect of the county's development. <br />
<br />
This theme will focus on the expanding interest in Estonia in organic food production within a framework of sustainable farming, together with the T[https://urbact.eu/sites/default/files/2023-01/FOOD%20CORRIDORS%20LAG%20TARTU%20IAP%20Final.pdf artu Food Strategy 2022-2030]. The idea is to develop the Agricultural Park concept in the urban fringe of Tartu, which would serve as a place of organic production, agricultural innovation, and education, economy, and bioeconomy, but would be also a potential place for recreation and act as a connector people and the city green and blue infrastructure. We will focus on practical work, site-specific interventions and working with a marginalised group of people from a care setting. De-institutionalised care is a recent move in Estonia, with people being removed from large care home settings to smaller, cosier groups in the community supported by care workers. However, they are not well integrated into the community, and work opportunities are low.<br />
<br />
==Urban food hub/living lab in Tartu==<br />
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According to the Tartu County Food Strategy 2022-2030, Tartu county in Estonia is well known for its various public or private initiatives regarding food production at different scales. It is also known for its research on organic food, collaboration networks, and multiple food industry businesses. However, there is a lack of a common and consistent food strategy for the region. The authors of the report aim not only to consider organic farming principles but also to shorten product cycles in accordance with the ‘farm to table’ principle; localalising production; strengthen networking activities; cooperate with local research and development units; and creation of a common brand, that would bring recognition to the county’s products. These aims should be done within EU frameworks in a socially, economically, culturally, and environmentally sustainable way, taking into consideration site-specific conditions and the complicated past of the Baltic countries and land reforms connected to it (such as the soviet era collectivisation process and its impact on current approaches to agriculture).<br />
Following on from that, the aim is to understand the landscape spatial planning and design implications of the above-mentioned strategy. Understanding of local needs and conditions, and the values that local inhabitants hold on the environment, culture, and economy. Participants will choose to work on the area of Mahekeskus (Organic Farming Centre) of the Estonian University of Life Sciences or find another suitable space or spatial approach for the topic. <br />
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Local challenge: to understand the potential of Tartu city and county to become a food hub, including social, economic, spatial and environmental challenges, namely, creating a joint food collaboration network in its social and spatial dimensions. Promotion and marketing of locally produced food. Integrating people in care into the community through healthy activities or work based in the agricultural park.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for local students==<br />
<br />
===Understanding local conditions===<br />
* What can be learnt from the past history regarding the agriculture and urban agriculture in the county of Tartu?<br />
* What are current municipal food and agricultural policies and how they are connected with landscape planning and management documents? How do these documents influence or suggest the potential to develop (peri-)urban agriculture in Tartu?<br />
* What are the ownership conditions of farmland around and within Tartu? What are different agricultural land types (formal and informal)?<br />
* What are the social and cultural conditions and potentials to develop a (peri-)urban agriculture hub in Tartu? <br />
* Who are the existing and potential stakeholders? What are their characteristics?<br />
* What is the potential for inclusion for those in care in the community placements (https://www.hoolekandeteenused.ee/en/)<br />
<br />
Summary of analysis in the form of SWOT analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, as well as stakeholder mapping and/or interviews/questionnaires.<br />
<br />
===Spatial planning and design strategy===<br />
* What are the existing spatial solutions unifying and enhancing food production in urban and peri-urban areas as well as connection with rural areas (such as the concept of agricultural parks).<br />
* What solutions can be adapted or implemented in Tartu county? How and why?<br />
* How can these areas be governed and managed in a sustainable, inclusive, and multifunctional way?<br />
* How can the interests of all defined stakeholders be strategically connected?<br />
<br />
Summary in the form of the strategic plan description and/or drawings/maps/plans<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote students==<br />
* What is the current situation of urban food production in an EU country, comparing the Baltic countries with other areas? What influences it?<br />
* How can urban agriculture in small cities such as Tartu be to strategically planned and promoted?</div>Adminhttps://wiki.landscape-portal.org/index.php?title=Living_labs_and_research_questions_2024&diff=652Living labs and research questions 20242024-02-12T10:33:15Z<p>Admin: /* Research questions for remote students */</p>
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=Living Labs in development=<br />
The presented living lab subjects and questions are in development. If you participate in assignment mode, you can also define your own research question or the aim of your assignment. You need to send that in the survey you received before February 16, 2024. After that date, it is only possible to participate in the course in lecture mode.<br />
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= Montpellier « Changes in a neighbourhood's* food environment with the arrival of a new tramway line » Living Lab /France=<br />
*Neighbourhood under definition, in partnership with INRAE and Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole<br />
<br />
==Context==<br />
Food environments can be defined as the “physical, economic, political and socio-cultural context in which consumers engage with the food system to make their decisions about acquiring, preparing and consuming food”.<br />
<br />
In contrast to the ‘consumer choice model’ (founded on the idea that awareness raising and education about better food choices will make people change their food behaviour), the ‘food environment approach’ recognises that the choices we make about food and the impacts they have are, to a significant degree, shaped by the contexts within which they are made. Following from that, it recognises that the most effective and equitable way to change food behaviours is to change the structural factors that drive food choice, among which are aspects of the built environment. As they affect access to food entry points, including the distance to food outlets, and the availability of physical infrastructures, such as public transport networks, etc.<br />
<br />
Local players can therefore act on the environment to encourage more sustainable and healthier eating habits, by improving accessibility to the entire food offer: shops, restaurants, markets, and points of sale.<br />
Montpellier's tramway network already comprises 4 lines. A 5th line, 20 km long, is currently under construction and will cross the city and serve the neighbourhood cities of Greater Montpellier by 2025. With this 5th line, the Metropole offers a new North/South-West diagonal to its network, linking its transport network even more finely and extensively.<br />
<br />
Urban development projects and other public policies (linked to transport or the commercial offer, for example) often modify food landscapes. Their impact on household food supply practices is, however, poorly understood, and may vary according to the social, demographic, and economic characteristics of populations and territories. To better understand these spatio-temporal dynamics, the first step is to describe and characterize food landscapes (or environments) and their evolution.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for local students==<br />
In a specific neighborhood of the Montpellier metropolitan area, the idea is to carry out a field survey to determine a diagnosis of food environments and how they are evolving: <br />
* Define the urban and social characteristics of the area in question<br />
* Mapping current food landscapes: the neighborhood food offer<br />
* Outlook on the evolution of these food landscapes with the arrival of the 5th tramway line<br />
* Recommendations for new developments around the tramway line<br />
This survey is part of a larger project, on a metropolitan scale, being carried out by a research team and players in Montpellier's Agroecological and Food Policy (Politique Agroécologique et Alimentaire).<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote students==<br />
* Review of literature and case studies on the impact of transport infrastructure projects on the evolution of food environments<br />
* Depending on the social and urban characteristics of the selected neighborhood: what ways can be found to improve its food environments?<br />
<br />
Mastering French to a certain extent is a preference since much of the references and stakeholder responses will be in French, a comparative case study of other countries can of course be carried out in English.<br />
<br />
=Warsaw “MOST Urban Farm” Living Lab/Poland=<br />
==Production and collaboration with local farmers==<br />
Short video presentation, Short pdf description 2023-01_MOST_LL_en, Extended description<br />
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FZvY1t1ptUOfIXTSJ8XrFWJecCt6WlrU/view?usp=sharing<br />
<br />
The Warsaw Urban Farm initiative was born out of the need to prepare the city for the upcoming effects of the environmental and food crises. Our goal is to create a local center for agro-ecological education and food production, and to develop and network future leaders in the field of sustainable food planning to contribute locally to food security and a healthier environment.<br />
To strengthen the city's resilience, we want to establish Warsaw's first farm (MOST), which will also be an incubator for further initiatives in the area of sustainable food system of Warsaw and surrounding suburban and rural areas.<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for the local students== <br />
* In addition to finances, what are the potential benefits of establishing the MOST farm in the selected location?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; analysis of spatial planning documents; field trip; spatial analysis; identifying key partners and stakeholders; identifying main problems and challenges faced by farmers operating in the selected area; SWOT analysis for the Warsaw agriculture of the upper Vistula)<br />
* What should be an economic model of the MOST farm?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trip; identifying main problems and challenges faced by farmers operating in the selected area; SWOT analysis for the Warsaw agriculture of the upper Vistula, developing an economic model )<br />
* Who are the stakeholders (municipality, neighbor community, involved institutions, and farmers) and what are their needs and influence?<br />
(methods: field trip; analysis of land ownership; identifying key partners and stakeholders; mapping all actors and their needs and power; define potential partnerships and alliances)<br />
* What is the attitude of local farmers towards urban agriculture initiatives, particularly MOST?<br />
(methods: field trip; mapping local farmers; interviews and questionnaires; designing a food hub)<br />
* What edible plants are the best to cultivate in MOST farm? Considering climate factors and socio-economic factors (production feasibility, retail). <br />
(methods: literature review; field trip; consultation with an expert)<br />
* What is the Warsaw municipality's attitude toward biodiversity? Is it only a cost of maintaining vacant lands or a food production opportunity?<br />
(methods: analysis of Municipality planning documents; interviews and questionnaires)<br />
* What are the regional rituals associated with agriculture and how to transfer them to an urban context?<br />
(methods: literature review; field trip; mapping local farmers; interviews and questionnaires; developing a proposal for an urban harvest celebration)<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for the remote students==<br />
* What should the coop urban farm include in its programme? What are the potential benefits (social, economic, environmental, others), and how to increase them?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trips)<br />
* What are the models of coop urban farms around the world? (Economic models, inner organization structures).<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; field trips)<br />
* What are the city's policies towards vacant lands considering its biodiversity and food production opportunities?<br />
(methods: a literature review on relevant examples of urban farms and food hubs in other cities; academic papers review; analysis of Municipality planning documents; interviews and questionnaires)<br />
<br />
=Ghent "Agroecological Urbanism Future Heritage" Living Lab/ Belgium=<br />
Ghent University in collaboration with De Stadsacademie*, STA.M, ILVO<br />
De Stadsacademie is a collaboratorium dedicated to transdisciplinary research and teaching on complex and urgent sustainability challenges faced by the city and the University of Ghent. De Stadsacademie works on several ‘trajectories’ that define the thematic scope of its work over a series of years.<br />
<br />
==Starting with the Kitchen. Rethinking neighbourhood food systems from an agroecological perspective==<br />
To rethink and transform urban local food systems, the kitchen is a good place to start. Even in the highly commodified urban food system of a city like Ghent, the kitchen entertains a strong relation of proximity to the places of eating. That is true for the individual kitchens at home but is true for collective kitchen infrastructure. The kitchen is not only the place where food is prepared, It is also a place in which logic of consumption and production meet. This also makes the kitchen a place of potential solidarity between producers and consumers.<br />
In this year’s working cycle of the Living Lab, we will explore the agroecological transformation of neighbourhood food systems through the perspective of the community kitchen in the Bloemekenswijk in Ghent. While the Bloemekenswijk is historically part of the periphery of Ghent, it is today subject to new dynamics of urbanization that reposition the neighbourhood within the urban agglomeration and set up a new dialogue between local and supra-local relations. This gives an opportunity to think about the role of neighbourhood infrastructure in general and food infrastructure in particular. The neighbourhood contains an array of existing food initiatives that can be the starting point of an agroecological transformation of the food system. The focus will be in particular on the Bloemekenswijk, however, will include the documentation of initiatives in other neighbourhoods as well.<br />
<br />
We will be exploring different transformative pathways together with actors within the neighbourhood.<br />
* the possible connection of neighbourhood initiatives to farmland owned by the Public Center for Social Welfare (OCMW)<br />
* the possible coproduction between the existing social economy cluster (VZW Ateljee & Balenmagazijn) with social economy initiatives active in food production (De Loods in Aalst)<br />
* the possible creation of a food hub, supplying food to existing neighbourhood restaurants, institutional canteens, school kitchens, etc.<br />
* the transformation of the existing market (Van Beverenplein) as a public site of local food supply in co-creation with neighbourhood food initiatives<br />
* the reactivation of the bakery on the psychiatric campus Dr. Guislain<br />
<br />
==Assignment questions for remote student==<br />
Students can choose between track A (literature review) or B (case study)<br />
===A.Literature review on neighborhood food systems and what makes them transformative===<br />
* What are the main drivers behind the creation of neighborhood food systems?<br />
* How can place-based initiatives be used to define solidarities that don’t remain limited to the local (and move beyond the local trap (Purcell 2006))?<br />
* How do local initiatives cope with the tension between ecological and social goals?<br />
* How can neighbourhood infrastructure be retooled to link up with local producers? What are the organizational and infrastructural implications of relying on direct supply?<br />
* How dependent are food support initiatives on surplus food and how do they seek to break that dependency?<br />
<br />
===B.Documentation, discussion of existing practices connecting neighbourhood food networks and infrastructures to local suppliers, and questions of access to land?===<br />
Examples around public catering within public institutes (schools, hospitals, care facilities…) that make a direct connection between public food provisioning, agroecological farmers, and land management.<br />
Examples of neighbourhood-based initiatives around food support and place-based solidarity in connection with agroecological farmers. We are particularly interested in community kitchen initiatives building a food sovereignty agenda together with agroecological producers.<br />
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==The General Context of the Ghent Living Lab and Earlier Work==<br />
The urban food policy of the City of Ghent, Gent en Garde, has been the subject of international attention including several prestigious prizes. At the same time, the systematic sale of public farmland in the peri-urban fringe of Ghent has alienated new and traditional farmers who are upset about the systematic loss of farmland. Farmers are rapidly disappearing from the peri-urban fringe, and new farmers face great difficulty in establishing themselves. <br />
Within the context of De Stadsacademie* civil society actors, farmers, urban civil servants, students and researchers have been engaged in the development of alternative policies regarding publicly owned farmland, and agricultural heritage more generally. The land currently being sold off by the city is the fruit of historical investment in urban agricultural heritage that has been handed down over several generations and is part of the permanent improvements (infrastructure, public space, heritage landscapes, drainage systems, etc.) that made farming possible.<br />
Contemporary urban constituencies seem to care little for the future of this publicly owned farmland. In the political debate on the sale of public land urban social goals are played against ecological concerns and the protection of local farming activities. The land is presented as ‘fragmented’ and off little public interest, and sold to finance the development of residential care facilities for the elderly. The campaign against the sale of public farmland has led to a moratorium on further sales in the neighbouring municipalities of Ghent. in the meantime, the city is preparing a vision on Agricultural land use in the city and the wider region. Within De Stadsacademie we want to enter into a dialogue with parties that could help to articulate a shared agenda regarding the way in which the public ownership of farmland could be leveraged to accelerate an agroecological food transition. This will happen in the framework of an agroecological urbanism (www.agroecologicalurbanism.org), which is a way of urbanizing that actively supports the care for soils and the growing of food in an equitable and ecologically sustainable way. We will try to imagine new forms of urban infrastructure and future heritage that contribute to the local support of agroecological farmers and re-inscribe the farming activities within a new urban geography of farming.<br />
Last year we worked within the living lab on various fronts, exploring possible connections between local food policy initiatives and public land management. The results of last year’s local work in the living lab were documented in a series of video portraits: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ5xVUeu3UV65ME7uF9RoRoNefUcVm3ba<br />
In July 2023 ‘De Stadacademie’ hosted the 2nd AESOP4FOOD Intensive Programme. A detailed programme of the IP can be found here: Programme IP Ghent - Future Heritage_Agroecological Urbanism<br />
This year we want to narrow the scope of the exercise and go deeper in one of the lines of investigation namely that of the community kitchen and the role of neighbourhood food infrastructure.<br />
part of this hypothesis has been explored in a master thesis that was produced in the context of ‘De Stadsacademie’. Master thesis Neighborfood<br />
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=Madrid Agroecologico Living Lab/ Spain=<br />
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==Circular Economy in Food Retail==<br />
It is easier to imagine an apple being integrated into a circular system than most of the consumer goods that surround us. It might be easier, but we are still far away from achieving circular loops in the food sector. The reasons are multiple, some of them are related to the global chains in which our current food system is embedded. We propose a Living Lab based on the assumption that with shorter food chains and more direct relationships between production and consumption, a shift into a circularity paradigm would be more feasible. <br />
The Living Lab Is conceived as a space for co-generation of applied knowledge together with the cooperative supermarket LA OSA and with the support of the [https://ciecmadrid.es International Center for Circular Economy (CIEC) of the Municipality of Madrid]. The main goal is to boost mechanisms of circular economy, to reduce both packaging and food waste, but also to enhance the recovery and reuse of packaging. The Living Lab responds to an interest expressed by the cooperative and its members, some of whom tried to set up a working group on these matters.<br />
We assume that short food supply chains are better positioned to adopt circularity, and the living lab should help the Cooperative Supermarket to have a diagnosis of the situation and to envision ways to transform and improve it, with the support of the CIEC which in turn, provide coaching and support to create innovative ecosystems.<br />
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==Research questions== <br />
* Is the cooperative supermarket better positioned to reduce the use of plastics in the commercialization of food?<br />
* What has been the impact of the measures adopted to reduce food waste and packaging waste?<br />
* Which are the bottlenecks of a transition into a (close to) zero plastic and zero waste model? For which part of the food consumer goods would that be easier?<br />
* Do agroecological projects and short supply chains perform better in terms of circularity? Which are their potentials to achieve circularity and how can they be enhanced?<br />
* Which are the implications in terms of spatial requirements and organizational operations associated with a shorter change embedded in circularity?<br />
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==Research questions for remote students==<br />
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* What are examples of good practices to enhance circular loops in the food chain, focussing on the production-distribution linkages?<br />
* Which are the key factors to replicate practices of regenerative food production embedded in closed loops?<br />
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= A Living Lab for building a Local Food Strategy for the Bucharest District 6=<br />
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==Introduction== <br />
Sector 6 of Bucharest is an administrative unit with diverse quarters like Crângași, Drumul Taberei, Ghencea, Giulești, Militari, and Regie. The sector covers 38 square kilometers, housing a population of 325,759 as of December 2021. It aims to become a smart and green city, with strategic plans for urban development. For more detailed information, you can visit the Wikipedia page on Sector 6 of Bucharest.<br />
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Bucharest's District 6 is starting a sustainable food strategy aimed at enhancing local production, decreasing environmental impacts, and fortifying community connections. This initiative proposes the creation of a living lab—a collaborative environment where citizens, researchers, policymakers, and businesses unite to tackle complex challenges within the local food system. <br />
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Expected Outcomes:<br />
* A detailed map of District 6's food ecosystem, with key players and their interactions.<br />
* Defining general objectives aligning with community needs and sustainability ambitions.<br />
* A shared vision for District 6's future food system, leading to a strategic plan and scalable pilot projects.<br />
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==Objectives for local students==<br />
* Mapping the Local Food System: To catalog all participants in District 6's food system, including producers, distributors, retailers, consumers, and waste handlers, thereby identifying product flows, inefficiencies, and opportunities for sustainability.<br />
* Establishing General Objectives: To set comprehensive goals like reducing food transportation distances, improving food security, advocating for local and seasonal foods, and cutting down food waste.<br />
* Developing a Vision: To formulate a long-term outlook for District 6’s food system that embodies sustainability, community welfare, and economic health.<br />
* Creating a Strategy: To devise an actionable plan that includes innovative practices such as urban agriculture, food sharing initiatives, and circular economy principles, detailing both immediate and future steps, potential hurdles, and success indicators.<br />
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==Research questions for remote students==<br />
# Integration: How can District 6's food strategy integrate with the broader city-region for mutual sustainability benefits?<br />
# Formation: What are the necessary steps and key players for establishing an effective local food council at the district level?<br />
# Objectives: In a post-socialist capital's context such as District 6, what are the primary goals for a local food strategy?<br />
# Engagement: What are the most effective methods for engaging residents in the local food system strategy?<br />
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= A Living Lab in Tartu, Estonia=<br />
Tartu is the second biggest city in Estonia and is located in the southeast part of the country. Agriculture is an important aspect of the county's development. <br />
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This theme will focus on the expanding interest in Estonia in organic food production within a framework of sustainable farming, together with the T[https://urbact.eu/sites/default/files/2023-01/FOOD%20CORRIDORS%20LAG%20TARTU%20IAP%20Final.pdf artu Food Strategy 2022-2030]. The idea is to develop the Agricultural Park concept in the urban fringe of Tartu, which would serve as a place of organic production, agricultural innovation, and education, economy, and bioeconomy, but would be also a potential place for recreation and act as a connector people and the city green and blue infrastructure. We will focus on practical work, site-specific interventions and working with a marginalised group of people from a care setting. De-institutionalised care is a recent move in Estonia, with people being removed from large care home settings to smaller, cosier groups in the community supported by care workers. However, they are not well integrated into the community, and work opportunities are low.<br />
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==Urban food hub/living lab in Tartu==<br />
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According to the Tartu County Food Strategy 2022-2030, Tartu county in Estonia is well known for its various public or private initiatives regarding food production at different scales. It is also known for its research on organic food, collaboration networks, and multiple food industry businesses. However, there is a lack of a common and consistent food strategy for the region. The authors of the report aim not only to consider organic farming principles but also to shorten product cycles in accordance with the ‘farm to table’ principle; localalising production; strengthen networking activities; cooperate with local research and development units; and creation of a common brand, that would bring recognition to the county’s products. These aims should be done within EU frameworks in a socially, economically, culturally, and environmentally sustainable way, taking into consideration site-specific conditions and the complicated past of the Baltic countries and land reforms connected to it (such as the soviet era collectivisation process and its impact on current approaches to agriculture).<br />
Following on from that, the aim is to understand the landscape spatial planning and design implications of the above-mentioned strategy. Understanding of local needs and conditions, and the values that local inhabitants hold on the environment, culture, and economy. Participants will choose to work on the area of Mahekeskus (Organic Farming Centre) of the Estonian University of Life Sciences or find another suitable space or spatial approach for the topic. <br />
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Local challenge: to understand the potential of Tartu city and county to become a food hub, including social, economic, spatial and environmental challenges, namely, creating a joint food collaboration network in its social and spatial dimensions. Promotion and marketing of locally produced food. Integrating people in care into the community through healthy activities or work based in the agricultural park.<br />
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==Assignment questions for local students==<br />
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===Understanding local conditions===<br />
* What can be learnt from the past history regarding the agriculture and urban agriculture in the county of Tartu?<br />
* What are current municipal food and agricultural policies and how they are connected with landscape planning and management documents? How do these documents influence or suggest the potential to develop urban agriculture in Tartu?<br />
* What are the ownership conditions of farmland around and within Tartu? What are different agricultural land types (formal and informal)?<br />
* What are the social and cultural conditions and potentials to develop an urban agriculture hub in Tartu? <br />
* Who are the existing and potential stakeholders? What are their characteristics?<br />
* What is the potential for inclusion for those in care in the community placements (https://www.hoolekandeteenused.ee/en/)<br />
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Summary of analysis in the form of SWOT analysis of strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, as well as stakeholder mapping and/or interviews/questionnaires.<br />
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===Spatial planning and design strategy===<br />
* What are the existing spatial solutions unifying and enhancing food production in urban and peri-urban areas as well as connection with rural areas (such as the concept of agricultural parks).<br />
* What solutions can be adapted or implemented in Tartu county? How and why?<br />
* How can these areas be governed and managed in a sustainable, inclusive, and multifunctional way?<br />
* How can the interests of all defined stakeholders be strategically connected?<br />
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Summary in the form of the strategic plan description and/or drawings/maps/plans<br />
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==Assignment questions for remote students==<br />
* What is the current situation of urban food production in an EU country, comparing the Baltic countries with other areas? What influences it?<br />
* How can urban agriculture in small cities such as Tartu be to strategically planned and promoted?</div>Admin