Montpellier 2024

The intensive workshop in Montpellier is hosted by the Chair in World Food Systems (WFS) of the Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement, the institut Agro. The programme will be organised in collaboration with Terres en Ville (one of the project partners) and INRAe (Umr Innovation, Montpellier, France) and the municipality of Montpellier.

Travel and stay

Participants of the partner organisations (staff and students) can receive a refund for travel. If you did not receive a form for this, please send an email to the LE:NOTRE Institute.

Stay

L’Institut Agro has booked rooms for most participants at Le Hameau (Rue Croix de las Cazes, 34000 Montpellier, France) or a building next to it. There is no breakfast included, but on weekdays coffee and viennoiserie will be served before the workshop starts near the classroom. Lunches and dinners will be paid for by the central budget. Paticipants will receive detailed information on that later.

What should you bring with you

Apart from clothing and personal items necessary items are:

• suncream
• raincoat or umbrella
• towel
• hiking boots or comfortable shoes
• mosquito repellent
• laptop or other digital device to work on
• sketchbook, pens and pencils to draw
• when you are a student, a student ID (international if possible)
• passport or national ID-card
• EU health insurance card or other proof of insurance

Requirements for achieving full academic recognition

The Erasmus Intensive Programme is full-time and could be rewarded in terms of credits at students’ educational institutes. All participating students who complete the Erasmus Intensive Programme will receive a certificate of participation. Those who need it will receive an assessment form with a grade.

The 10 days duration, together with the preparation and afterword, is offered to students for 3 credits according to the ECTS. The results will be described in the manual. Students must check themselves if their respective study programme recognises these credits.

Preparation for the IP

A week before the IP starts you will receive a manual and detailed programme for the workshop with some additional reading. You can already have a look at the programme below and the living lab of Montpellier to get an impression. All participants should contribute actively to the process, and the tasks the groups have. We will address three main themes: governance, management & development of the agriparc. and the link between urban and rural areas. We will work with the concept of collaborative work by all, using the steps of Design Thinking.

We also ask you to:

• read the paper on Agriparks of the Sustainable Food Planning Conference
• consult the prize winning proposal for the Agripark Les Bouisses, see below in this wiki.
• consult the description of the current participation process on the park.
• have a look at the powerpoing on Design Thinking, a method that we will use during the IP.

L'agriparc des Bouisses

The focus area will be the development of L'agriparc des Bouisses, Montpellier, with sub-themes such as "the food environment", and "water management". The concertation phase for the Agriparc is still ongoing and the workshop aim is to provide additional ideas, prototypes, and elaborations of the Agricparc.

An Agriparc is an agricultural park included in the urban space, combining different functions around agriculture. It is a landscaped place of production, marketing in short circuit, a refuge for fauna and flora, but also a place of green leisure open to all. Subjected to intense urbanization and heavy automobile traffic, the inhabitants of the western sector of Montpellier have suffered a degradation of their quality of life and their environment. With the Agriparc des Bouisses project, the ambition is both to create a new place of attraction for the entire sector and to offer the inhabitants a quality landscape and natural area. For this, a competition has been organised, of which the result can be seen here.

An innovative participatory approach has been launched with the inhabitants so that they can contribute to the Agriparc project (on which the teams of landscape designers, urban planners, and urban agriculture specialists will work).

The workshop will take place from July 05 until July 12, 2024. With travel days on July 4 and July 13, with the following programme.

Presentations during the IP

Damien Conaré presents the development of food systems in city regions, the basics of food system sustainability, and the content and working process of the workshop.

Stéphane Bosc (École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier) Présentation de Montpellier Métropole : histoire et géographie de l’aménagement du territoire.

Marie Massart vice-mayor for the policies on food and urban agriculture and Isabelle Terrasson (Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole) present the challenges - such as retirement of farmers, food insecurity - and principles of the food system to develop a sustainable network with shorter food chains for the metropolitan area- which are part of the policies on agroecology and food of Montpellier.

Piere Janin and Mathilde Loisy of the landscape architecture office Fabriques present an extended version of the design and process of the Agriparc. You can find more information on the office here.

Suzie Bernard (PhD student Supagro Paris) presents the Agriparc des Bouisses with a comparison of other parcs around Paris, and its participation process.

Jeroen de Vries presents the result of a collaborative action of members of the AESOP4Food project, David Fafani (University of Florence) and Joanna Storie (Estonian University of Life Sciences) on a new model for Agriparcs placing it in a European context.

Jeroen de Vries presents the working process of the workshop according to the Design Thinking Method.

Clara Zamour, Terres en Villes, presents the Agri-urban spaces in French and European metropolitan areas. Highlighting this with examples of metropoles in Europe. She concludes with a set of obstacles and challenges in developing agri-urban projects in metropolitan areas.

Coline Perrin, INRAe Montpellier, presents the origins and the policy background of the Agriparcs in Montpellier and draws some clear conclusions.

Programme

Thursday, July 4 (travel day)

Participants need to send their arrival time for checking into Le Hameau.

Friday, July 5

Morning at l’Institut Agro, 2, place Pierre Viala, Montpellier 9h00 Welcoming / Ice breaking / Introductions of the participants / Introductions on the programme and food system sustainability / on the metropole.

Lunch at L’Institut Agro canteen

Afternoon at Hôtel de Ville Introductions on the policies of the city on agriculture, food, agroecology with discussion. Introduction on l’Agriparc des Bouisses and the participation process

Welcoming dinner

Samedi, July 6

Morning - at Bouisses Study tour in the area of l’agriparc des Bouisses with transect/analysis of landscape elements under guidance of researchers, civil society and municipality.

Lunch & debate at the villa des Grèzes

Afternoon at L’Institut Agro Inroductions and discussion on Les Bouisses, the general aims of Agriparcs and examples of agriparcs in Europe

Sunday, July 7

10h00-12h00 Guided tour of the city of Montpellier.

Self organised lunch for each

14h00-17h00 study tour of the beach of the Mediterranean Sea.

Monday July 8 at l’Institut Agro

Morning Working groups with structured work following the principles of Design Thinking.

Lunch at L’Institut Agro canteen

Afternoon Working groups continue and a lecture ‘les agriparcs : un maillage entre l’agriculture urbaine et péri-urbaine’ End of the afternoon : flash plenary group presentations on the results of the day.

Tuesday, July 9 at l’Institut Agro

Morning Working groups continue and a lecture ‘Les espaces agriurbains dans des métropoles françaises et européennes’

Lunch at L’Institut Agro canteen

Afternoon Working groups continue End of the afternoon : flash plenary group presentations on the results of the day.

Wednesday July 10 at l’Institut Agro

Morning starting at l’Institut Agro, followed by a study trip Introduction on the network of agriparcs of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole Study trip to the agriparcs de Montpellier Métropole : La Condamine, Le Mas Nouguier, Le Domaine du Viviers.

Thursday, July 11 at l’Institut Agro

Morning Working groups develop plans Lecture on the Food environments: the Montpellier case

Lunch at L’Institut Agro canteen

Afternoon Working groups: preparing presentations

Friday, July 12 at l’Institut Agro

Morning Final presentations of the working groups with invited persons Final wrap up, evaluation and good bye lunch

Saturday, July 13 (travel day)

Travel back