Projekt

Given global challenges such as urbanisation, limited resources and food security, urban agriculture has turned from a phenomenon considered to be peripheral to a globally acknowledged instrument for sustainable development. Usually, urban agriculture initiatives focus around creating new systems; the qualities of inherited and vernacular systems of urban agricultural production and its associated benefits - for food supply, income generation, social and biodiversity, and the urban metabolism - have not been subject yet to research activities, despite the fact that considering urban development and heritage together is strongly suggested in the UN agenda for sustainable development. To address this gap, the team will share case study based experiences from different urban regions: Sao Paulo (Brazil), Havana (Cuba), Bandung (Indonesia), Tokyo (Japan) and Nuremberg (Germany). The project combines historical investigations, spatial analysis and living lab methods to detect, map and define the heritage and its associated values and threats, and to raise awareness of the heritage and elaborate targeted planning and policy agendas. The case study findings will be integrated in a parallel metalevel process by focussing upon a living heritage approach taking into account ecosystematic, contextual and participatory perspectives. As a final product, the project will formulate an Agenda on Urban Agricultural Heritage together with the FAO and the UN Habitat programme.

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Lohrberg

  Rheinisch-Westfälische
  Technische Hochschule Aachen
  Lehrstuhl Landschaftsarchitektur
  Aachen
  

• Prof. Makoto Yokohari

  The University of Tokyo
  Graduate School of Engineering
  Department of Urban Engineering
  Tokyo
  Japan
  

• Prof. Oekan S Abdoellah, Ph.D.

  Padjadjaran University
  Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
  Department of Anthropology Center for Environment
  and Sustainability Science
  Bandung, West Java
  Indonesien
  

• Prof. Dr. Jorge Pena Diaz

  Technical University of Havana
  Faculty of Architecture
  Department for Urban and Architectural Design
  Group for Urban Research and Action
  Havana
  Kuba (Cuba)
  

• Prof. Dr. Renato Cymbalista

  Centro Universitário das Faculdades
  Metropolitanas Unidas
  Urban Planning
  School of Architecture and Urban Planning
  Sao Paulo
  Brasilien
  

• Dr. Luciana Itikawa

  Centro Universitário das Faculdades
  Metropolitanas Unidas
  Urban Planning
  School of Architecture and Urban Planning
  Women in Informal Employment Globalizing
  and Organizing
  Sao Paulo
  Brasilien