Purpose and goal
The project aims to create a circular, attractive and resilient environment for residents in million program areas, offering new approaches for property owners and community planners with new ways of using existing environments, contribute to social meeting places while increasing the degree of self-sufficiency for residents. The project links to New European Bauhaus in its endeavour to explore sustainable and inclusive solutions through design methodology and foresight practice.
Expected effects and result
By putting people at the centre, focusing on homes and neighbourhoods, the attractive and accessible living environments of the future can be created with respect for place-specificity, diversity and cultural differences. We expect learning through understanding and exploring different ideas about the futures and learning across sectors such as food, health, built environment & energy. Thus, build capacities for those who participate (ownership) and those who plan (locally rooted solutions).
Planned approach and implementation
We combine foresight methods with farming to enable meetings over a meaningful activity. The future images include basements, spaces between buildings and homes, and relate to characteristics, wants, needs expressed by the participants. Through combining the actual design of a new place/living environment (prototype) with a joint practice (workshops, farming) we create a space to develop future visions in a collective process, which are exhibited and discussed at Form/Design Center in Malmö.
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