Playing/Field Urban Agriculture : Ecological education and practice-based design
- Submitting institution
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University of Brighton
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 7124405
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin
- ISBN
- 9783798327269
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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C - Architecture and Design: Communities and Sustainability
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Playing/Field Urban Agriculture is the outcome of a participatory urban agriculture project – Spiel/Feld Marzahn – designed, researched, implemented and taught by Katrin Bohn during her guest professorship at the Technical University Berlin. The project established community-led food growing on a redundant urban site in a Berlin housing estate. It was jointly conducted with landscape architecture students at the Technical University Berlin, the planning department of the Berlin Borough of Marzahn-Hellersdorf and local actors on site.
Bohn curated the book’s contents, oversaw its production and contributed context-setting chapters to each of its two main parts. She and her co-editor worked with participants to shape contributions that examined the creative potential of productive urban landscapes and the manifold interdependencies of urban agriculture and ecological education through the experiences of the project. The book demonstrated the necessity of such connections and illustrated how they may be practically implemented and become experienceable. To set the volume in a wider research and practice context, the editors commissioned further contributions from internationally renowned urban agriculture experts, the council’s urban planners, and urban planning educators. Thoughts and statements by local residents were included in the form of short interviews. In an emerging field of participatory practice and multidisciplinary design research it was important to represent this diversity of voices.
The book investigates relationships between environmental education, ecological literacy and urban agriculture, as well as between different forms of learning and the spatial consequences for regenerated urban and architectural sites. It instigates the spatially effective, food-productive use of a brownfield site and demonstrates methods to strengthen local engagement and offer lifestyle choices. As such, it was one of the first publications of its kind in Germany.
The book won a United Nations award for Contribution to the UN World Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.
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- Non-English
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