RESILIENT TERRITORIAL PLANNING

(organized by G. Morel Chevillet)

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How to design professional urban agriculture in resilient territories? From the scale of the urban farm project to the territorial scale this session will focus on describing, analyzing and questioning the place of urban agriculture in the city fabric in a sustainability way of development. It allows us to understand the place of architects, landscape architects-designers, project leaders, agronomists and local authorities in the process of making urban agriculture projects and in the city planning. 

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From the origin of professional urban agriculture projects, to their management, this session aims to better understand the mechanisms that gave rise to urban agriculture projects. To do this, we propose to compare the views of several "city-makers" at various scales: the urban farm, the agricultural district, the more edible city, the country and its relationship to urban agriculture. We will also question the place of those who have worked on the realization of agri-urban projects:  

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Project owners: the sponsors or developers are questioned about the methods implemented to achieve the realization of an agri-urban project. Who validates and imagines the purpose of the project: from the project with an essentially social purpose to the project with a commercial purpose, what positioning of the project owners. The perception and integration of the inhabitants in the future project will be questioned. 

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Project managers: the "traditional" designers of the city, such as architects or landscape architects, are faced with these new urban situations such as farms or collective gardens. 

Project leaders: rarely integrated from the outset of the project, their positioning in the project implementation process has yet to be found. 

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Agronomists: What about the intervention of agronomists? When and at what levels of skills can they intervene in the project? 

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In a very concrete way and illustrated on the basis of failures and successes, we will try to sketch viable design solutions for future urban agriculture projects. In view of the extreme complexity of these extraordinary projects, a synthesis of the skills necessary for their design will conclude this round table. We will questioning the training and skills expected for these traditional actors of the city to integrate, in their educational curriculum, the challenges of urban agriculture. 

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