A smooth transition towards sustainability calls for a profound change in agriculture and its relationships with cities: there will be no sustainable agriculture and no sustainable cities without a redefinition of their mutual interactions; that is, without a new ecology of communities and places. This new territorial ecology is already appearing at the interfaces between cities and countryside, driven by a wave of social innovation. This is generating unprecedented food communities – producers and consumers defined by a place of origin and reflecting a new idea of ‘local economy’ based on food, agriculture, tradition and culture – where multifunctional farming, de-mediated food chains and urban activism merge. A project about Milano, the Feeding Milano Project is a good example of this emerging trend. It shows what a mix of bottom-up initiatives as well as design-led initiatives can do. This example, with other similar ones around the world, represents an innovative design process (planning by projects or also ‘acupuncture’ planning) capable of promoting and sustaining a new territorial ecology.

Design for Territorial Ecology and a New Relationship between City and Countryside: The Experience of the Feeding Milano Project’

MERONI, ANNA;
2013-01-01

Abstract

A smooth transition towards sustainability calls for a profound change in agriculture and its relationships with cities: there will be no sustainable agriculture and no sustainable cities without a redefinition of their mutual interactions; that is, without a new ecology of communities and places. This new territorial ecology is already appearing at the interfaces between cities and countryside, driven by a wave of social innovation. This is generating unprecedented food communities – producers and consumers defined by a place of origin and reflecting a new idea of ‘local economy’ based on food, agriculture, tradition and culture – where multifunctional farming, de-mediated food chains and urban activism merge. A project about Milano, the Feeding Milano Project is a good example of this emerging trend. It shows what a mix of bottom-up initiatives as well as design-led initiatives can do. This example, with other similar ones around the world, represents an innovative design process (planning by projects or also ‘acupuncture’ planning) capable of promoting and sustaining a new territorial ecology.
2013
The Handbook of Design for Sustainability
9780857858528
service design; Strategic Design; social innovation
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