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Local Church Week Pastor Andre Mitchell
No full textPastor Andre Mitchell, Pastor, Author, CEO, Deliverance Temple/Andre Mitchell Ministries, Muncie, IN, speaks on how connecting with other believers is important to your faith for Local Church Week
Mapping urban agriculture potentials in Nerima City, Tokyo
No full textViljoen presents abstracted and applied mappings forming part of the ongoing investigation, ‘Laboratories for Urban Agriculture’. Here, field work from Nerima City in Tokyo provided the raw material for a set of mappings using collage, montage, photography and drawing to communicate new readings of functional agricultural land use and to develop replicable strategies for reintegrating fragmented farmland into the city’s urban fabric. An inductive approach is applied to original primary place-based mappings made by the author to explore and describe mapping as a design research method and technique. Thematically this chapter focuses on urban food growing sites and their potential to catalyse sustainable spatial and place making innovations. Refencing collage, montage and work of early modernist artists such as Schwitters, it is argued that mapping methods drawing on these legacies can be propositional and generative, for near future scenario building that value green infrastructure, nature-based solutions, walkable neighbourhoods and wellbeing
Preface
No full textGarnett (1996a) suggests that urban food production provides an excellent means of involving groups who are often discriminated against, such as women, ethnic minorities and the elderly, in sociable, productive activity. Urban food growing has also often provided a valuable means of expression of local or ethnic identity, for example through growing culturally significant produce. A well-known example of this in the UK is the Ashram Acres community garden in Birmingham used by its local, mainly Asian residents
The Productive City: Urban agriculture on the map
Full text linkThis article was invited by the editors of the Urban Design Group Journal for their special issue on "Food and the city". Lead by Bohn and co-written with Viljoen, the article reviews the development of urban agriculture during the past twenty years and highlights challenges in providing for urban food growing practice with reference to the emergence of economically independent enterprises. The authors' own "CPUL City" concept is being presented and its different scales are illustrated
The Productive City: Urban agriculture on the map
Full text linkThis article was invited by the editors of the Urban Design Group Journal for their special issue on "Food and the city". Lead by Bohn and co-written with Viljoen, the article reviews the development of urban agriculture during the past twenty years and highlights challenges in providing for urban food growing practice with reference to the emergence of economically independent enterprises. The authors' own "CPUL City" concept is being presented and its different scales are illustrated
Scarcity and abundance: urban agriculture in Cuba and the US
Full text linkIn urban agriculture, there is a direct connection between scarcity and abundance, with the threat of food shortages so often acting as an effective trigger for food-growing enterprises. Produce can also be grown with few or limited resources. André Viljoen and Katrin Bohn juxtapose the experience of organopónicos [market gardens] in Cuba, which have proliferated since the US trade blockade of the 1990s, and more recent experiments in food production in US-American cities that are learning from Cuba's example. The refereed article has been invited to this special issue of "Architectural Design" edited by Jon Goodbun
The Continuous picnic and what you can do with the city
No full textThe Continuous Picnic was an urban design research event and installation sited in central London developed by Viljoen and K. Bohn as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2008. It was set up as an arts based event/installation to test, simulate and disseminate the qualitative and quantifiable aspects of the urban design concept for "Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes" and furthermore initiate top down (municipal) and bottom up (citizen) dialogue and collaboration in the generation of long term strategic urban development plans. It was subsequently selected for inclusion in an International travelling exhibition conceived as an architecture and urbanism research project by the renowned Canadian Centre for Architecture. The exhibition, titled Actions: What you can do with the city included artefacts from The Continuous Picnic (Action 82). A commissioned article for the Canadian Centre for Architecture's accompanying publication introduces Continuous Productive Urban Landscape (CPUL) Theory followed by CPUL Practice and designing for CPUL, developing the following themes, Space (productive), Urban Assets (land and farmers) and Scale (politics). The article concludes by describing the role of urban installations and events as research tools to facilitate the understanding and dissemination of the CPUL concept. It refers to Bohn and Viljoen Architects contribution to the 2007 Middlesbrough Urban Farming Project and their "Continuous Picnic" installation/public action which formed part of London Festival of Architecture 2008. Urban Design Research Evidenced by outputs from 2008-2010. Event: The Continuous Picnic, Montague Place and Russell Square, London 5th July 2008, as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2008. Exhibition: Action 82 exhibited within "Action 82" The Continuous Picnic, Montague Place and Russell Square, London 5th July 2008, an action based community research installation, exhibited in, Actions: What you can do with the City curated by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago. Publication: Viljoen, A & Bohn, K 2008, ‘Everything is Continuous', in Actions: what you can do with the city, eds G Borasi and M Zardini, Canadian Centre for Architecture and SUN, Montreal / Amsterdam, pp. 202-211
Everything is continuous
No full textA commissioned article for exhibition catalog for the Canadian Center for Architecture’s international traveling exhibition Actions: What you can do with the city. This article introduces Continuous Productive Urban Landscape (CPUL) Theory followed by CPUL Practice and designing for CPUL, developing the following themes, Space (productive), Urban Assets (land and farmers) and Scale (politics). The article concludes by describing the role of urban installations and events as research tools to facilitate of the understanding and dissemination of the CPUL concept. It refers to Bohn and Viljoen Architects contribution to the 2007 Middlesbrough Urban Farming Project and their “Continuous Picnic” installation / public action which formed part of London Festival of Architecture 2008
Pearl Andre, Political Activist and Author from Bismarck
No full textAn undated photograph of Pearl Andre, an author and political activist from Bismarck. She wrote the book Women on the Move about the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota in 1975.https://commons.und.edu/nd-politics-photos/1254/thumbnail.jp
Laboratories for urban agriculture
No full textLaboratories for urban agriculture is an on-going design research project, initiated in 2002, using direct observation and field work surveying emerging international urban agriculture practice and generating new knowledge about the architectural and urban qualities, opportunities, constraints and requirements of a developing urban typology, defined by Viljoen and research partner Bohn, as productive urban landscapes. Findings from the project inform the development of the researcher's larger sustainable urban design concept for, Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes, specifically advancing research into the urban conditions and capacities required if productive landscapes are to be introduced to urban environments. The project's photographic, drawn and textual documentation of urban agriculture practice in Cuba (Havana and Cienfuegos) and the USA (Detroit, New York City, Madison and Milwaukee) continues to refine the definition and understanding of the productive urban landscape typology
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