Vegetable gardens for educational purposes: a specific toolkit for didactic contexts

The paper reports on how urban and community vegetable gardens are a increasing phenomenon with the ability to address a strong community capacity.s (Shanghai, Ljubljana, Milan) have allowed the authors to understand a need for multifunctional spaces, where the citizens of these spatial realities are oriented towards the virtuality of relational behaviors. One of the main research objectives is to let the people, even non-designers, to define the spaces, functions and ways of use of these gardens. Through co- design sessions with different communities related to specific schools, the design output aims at the creation of a multifunctional space, where people, time and the interaction between them become regulators and generators of the space itself. The expected result is a set of guidelines tools able to deal with the creation of vegetable gardens by defining the layouts, the functions and the experiences.