Agrocité: a civic hub for resilience and urban agriculture
- Submitting institution
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The University of Sheffield
- Unit of assessment
- 13 - Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
- Output identifier
- 6485
- Type
- K - Design
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Agrocité is a community run hub hosting social, economic and environmental activities: farming and food processing, compost making, energy production, resilience training. It is a node within a network of civic assets, which form a resilience ecosystem and empower civic initiatives in deprived suburban neighbourhoods to fight climate change. It prototypes new ways of building and managing the neighbourhood to generate positive social and environmental impacts. The project involves design-led research on sustainable building methods and materials for optimal performance with minimal costs. The model, which has been first implemented in Colombes, near Paris, has been successfully transferred and developed in other contexts in Metropolitan Paris and London.
The project asks the following research questions:
1. How can a civic resilience hub contribute to the bottom-up regeneration of deprived suburban neighbourhoods?
2. How can the hub building be designed to embed ecological principles and enhance local ecological systems?
3. What role can the hub play in supporting the citizen-led environmental governance in the neighbourhood?
4. What are the hub’s direct social, ecological and economic benefits for the community and how can this model be evaluated and reproduced in other context?
The project has been disseminated through publications in journals (Building Research & Information; Environmental Policy & Governance; Ephemera; Harvard Design Magazine), books (Architecture and Resilience, Routledge; The Changing Shape of Architecture, Routledge; Ecological Urbanism, Lars Muller; Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet, MIT Press), exhibitions (AzW Vienna, Pavillion d’Arsenal Paris, Venise Biennale, HABITAT III Quito, COP21 Paris). It has been featured in professional magazines (Ad’A, Architectural Design, Arch+, Ecologik), newspapers (The Guardian, Le Monde, Liberation, Huffington Post) and television programmes (France2, France3, Arte).
Agrocité has received prestigious awards including Building4Humanity (2018), 100Projects for the Climate (2016), European Public Space Prize (2016) and European Social Innovation Tournament (2015).
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- Non-English
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