Middlesbrough Urban Farming Project
Exhibit Category / Cat茅gorie de l'expo: City
Location/Emplacement: Middlesbrough, UK
Dates: 2007
Designers/Concepteurs: John Thackara & David Barrie, David Barrie & Associates; Nina Belk, Zest Innovation; Debra Solomon;
Clients: The Citizens of Middlesbrough, DOTT 07 (Design Council/One North East), Council of Middlesbrough
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Image Credits/Cr茅dits d'images: Mavis Arnold, David Barrie, Katrin Bohn, Catherine Early, John Thackara, Andre Viljoen
Project Description: (version fran莽aise ci-dessous)
The urban landscape of Middlesbrough, a former industrial town in the UK, was radically transformed through the Middlesbrough Urban Farming Project. This design initiative was part of Designs of the Time (DOTT 07), a yearlong series of community projects in the North East of England that 鈥渆xplored how design can improve our lives in meaningful ways.鈥� (http://dott07.com) DOTT 07 focused on sustainable alternatives for living, exploring several themes (called zones): energy; schools and schooling; health; and finally food, which was called the 鈥渦ltimate design challenge.鈥� Middlesbrough became a living lab for the food zone, an example of how, through design interventions, urban agriculture can be integrated into cities, and healthy food can become woven into the basic fabric of cities and towns.
Architects Katrin Bohn and Andre Viljoen, who had developed a plan of Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes for London that creatively uses available urban land for food production, were called upon to map the design that ultimately showed eighty locations for productive growing across town. The mapping project, called 鈥淥pportunities for a green and edible Middlesbrough鈥� was a comprehensive record of places for urban food production, revealing where residents wanted to grow food, identifying existing allotment gardens as well as potential locations for producing food in Middlesbrough, and connecting these spaces of opportunity together to show the emerging green network within the town.
In May 2007, gardening began all over the city; in addition, two kitchen gardens were created, one at the art gallery and one that transformed the city鈥檚 main park. Community groups, volunteer organizations, youth and school groups, public health organizations and even preschools organized to grow food in leftover and adaptable spaces, enacting the design ideas shown on the map. Support networks that were put in place as part of Middlesbrough鈥檚 鈥淗ealthy Town Initiative鈥� enabled the implementation of designs for continuing the cultivation of productive landscapes. Design strategies implemented in Middlesbrough included:
- involving many community members and organizations in spreading food production in a variety of city spaces,
- providing a variety of plots and containers for different conditions, and
- using mapping as an analytical tool for revealing strategies and opportunities for urban food production.
These are examples other cities and towns can use as they incorporate gardening initiatives into their own urban fabric.
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Description du Projet:
Le paysage urbain de Middlesbrough, une ancienne ville industrielle de Grande-Bretagne, a 茅t茅 radicalement transform茅 par un projet d鈥檃griculture urbaine. Cette initiative faisait partie de Designs of the Time (DOTT 07), une s茅rie de projets communautaires au nord-est de l鈥橝ngleterre qui exploraient 芦comment le design peut am茅liorer nos vies de fa莽on significative. 禄 (http://dott07.com) DOTT 07 茅tait ax茅 sur l鈥櫭﹖ude de modes de vie alternatifs durables 脿 travers plusieurs th猫mes (appel茅s zones) : l鈥櫭﹏ergie, les 茅coles et l鈥櫭ヾucation, la sant茅, et l鈥檃limentation, qui a 茅t茅 qualifi茅e d鈥� 芦 ultime d茅fi du design 禄.
Middlesbrough est devenu un laboratoire vivant pour la 芦 zone de l鈥檃limentation 禄 - un exemple d鈥檌nt茅gration de l鈥檃griculture dans les villes et de la production d鈥檃liments sains au c艙ur m锚me du tissu urbain.
Les architectes Katrin Bohn et Andre Viljoen ont 茅labor茅 un Plan de 芦 Paysages urbains de production continue 禄 (Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes) pour Londres. L鈥檕bjectif est d鈥檈xploiter de mani猫re cr茅ative des terrains disponibles pour la production alimentaire. Invit茅s 脿 cartographier la conception de 80 lieux de production agricole 脿 travers la ville, ils ont ainsi d茅velopp茅 le projet nomm茅 芦 Espaces possibles pour un Middlesbrough vert et comestible 禄, qui recense de mani猫re d茅taill茅e tous les espaces o霉 peut 锚tre d茅velopper la production agricole urbaine 鈥� les zones o霉 les habitants d茅sirent cultiver, les jardins potagers existants, les emplacements potentiels de production alimentaire. Ces espaces sont reli茅s pour cr茅er un r茅seau vert dans la ville.
La culture mara卯ch猫re urbaine a commenc茅 en mai 2007 dans toute la ville. Deux jardins potagers ont 茅galement 茅t茅 cr茅茅s, l鈥檜n pr猫s de la galerie d鈥檃rt et un autre qui a transform茅 le principal parc de la ville. Des associations de quartier, des organisations de b茅n茅voles, des groupes de jeunes et d鈥櫭﹖udiants, des institutions de sant茅 publique et m锚me des 茅coles maternelles ont commenc茅 脿 cultiver des espaces d茅laiss茅s et adaptables, mettant en application les id茅es repr茅sent茅es sur la carte. Des r茅seaux d鈥檈ntraide mis en place dans le cadre de l鈥檌nitiative 芦 ville saine 禄 ont permis l鈥檃pplication de projets de paysages productifs pour une culture continue. Plusieurs strat茅gies ont 茅t茅 mises en 艙uvre 脿 Middlesbrough, o霉 il s鈥檃gissait
- d鈥檈ngager des communaut茅s et associations 脿 d茅velopper la production alimentaire dans des espaces diff茅rents;
- de mettre 脿 disposition des parcelles et des contenants adapt茅s 脿 des conditions diverses;
- d鈥檜tiliser la cartographie comme outil d鈥檃nalyse permettant de r茅v茅ler des plans et possibilit茅s de production alimentaire urbaine.
Autant d鈥檈xemples dont d鈥檃utres villes peuvent s鈥檌nspirer quand elles entreprennent d鈥檌nt茅grer des initiatives de production mara卯ch猫re adapt茅es 脿 leur propre tissu urbain.
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