Building community (gardens) on university campuses: masterplanning green-infrastructure for a post-COVID moment

Walshe, Rachael; Law, Lisa

doi:10.1080/01426397.2022.2090530

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“…In a matter of just a few months, this small regeneration project has shown promising signs of community solidification [4,8,43] and has contributed to reigniting campus life, which had been severely affected by the pandemic [38]. Our Orto has created a multistakeholder dialogue that has not only brought closer the different categories within the university (students, academics, and administrative staff), but has also bridged different generations by highlighting the fundamental role of the local elders as custodians of the heritage of the area and precious advisors on agricultural practices.…”

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“…It looks like the pandemic has further added gloominess to already gloomy liquid times [9], and now more than ever collective communitarian efforts are needed. Walshe and Law [38] argue that university campuses are fundamental for developing social capital in cities and providing connections to and among neighborhoods. Therefore, they stress the urgency for universities to restore a sense of normalcy in campuses post-COVID-19, and community gardens can be one means of achieving this.…”

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New European Bauhaus for a Circular Economy and Waste Management: The Lived Experience of a Community Container Garden at the University of Turin

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This study discusses the case of a 200 m2 container garden set up in a polluted and neglected area of the School of Management and Economics of the University of Turin. ‘L’Orto della SME’ is self-managed, and it has become a hub for a variety of stakeholders, within and outside the university. The project is part of the framework Proposal for Citizen Engagement, promoted by EIT Food Cross-KIC, which contributes to the New European Bauhaus (NEB). The paper looks at how such projects contribute to create social cohesion around sustainability issues of circularity and waste management. The case presents several autoethnographic elements, like tales and stakeholders’ voices, stemming from the direct involvement of the authors in developing the project. The article presents how a stakeholder network was created and how internal and external stakeholders were involved in co-creation activities, such as (multi-stakeholder) workshops and focus groups. Our findings show that NEB principles can be effectively applied to initiatives like the container garden to tackle issues of social inclusion, equality and sustainable production and consumption. This is further emphasized by the empowerment and agency gained by diverse stakeholders to approach sustainability matters.

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New European Bauhaus for a Circular Economy and Waste Management: The Lived Experience of a Community Container Garden at the University of Turin

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“…Mejia et al (2020) analysed the role of community-based agriculture in food security and psychological benefits. Interestingly, the benefits of the community garden also were emphasised in university settings (Walshe & Law, 2022). In addition, the studies focused on the interaction between the gardener and gardening.…”

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Global Landscape of Urban Agriculture and Covid-19 Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Sawangchaeng,

Bamrungkhul

2024

JARS

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During the Covid-19 pandemic, urban agriculture, which refers to various forms of agricultural production within or surrounding the city, gained more attention from scholars worldwide. Given the multiple benefits associated with urban agriculture, these practices were adopted to address the adverse impacts in various dimensions, such as food security, health, and well-being. Simultaneously, urban agriculture also was affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, influencing the practice from both theoretical and practical perspectives, which expanded the scope of research in this field across various disciplines and perspectives. Consequently, it is difficult to track the topic and scope of the current research status as a basis for developing research about urban agriculture in the future. However, a systematic review that consolidates the current state of knowledge to support advanced research had not yet been conducted. Our paper aimed to fill this gap by employing a bibliometric analysis of articles in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) to examine the research landscape of urban agriculture and Covid-19. VOSviewer was the main platform adopted to conduct the bibliometric analysis in order to construct the research landscape based on three scopes, namely, main contributors (authors, sources, organisations, and countries), hot issues, and research themes. The analysis revealed that the WoSCC had indexed a total of 214 articles, with an increasing number of publications from 2020 to 2022. Although studies on urban agriculture and Covid-19 were conducted worldwide, authors and organisations from developed countries, especially the United States, were the primary contributors to article publications. The journal “Sustainability” was the main source of published articles about urban agriculture and Covid-19, receiving the highest number of citations. Research on urban agriculture and Covid-19 was conducted under eight crucial research themes associated with the food sector, benefits for health and well-being, climate change and air quality, marginalised communities, practising the community garden, practising home gardening, lessons learned from the policies and projects, and innovation and technology. Despite research being conducted on urban agriculture and the Covid-19 pandemic within different themes and geographical contexts, the majority of studies primarily focused on the benefits and behaviour change associated with urban agriculture practices to mitigate the negative impact of Covid-19 in terms of the food system and mental health. This finding is consistent with the keywords co-occurrence analysis, which identified “food security/insecurity” and “resilience” as the main hot issues. In addition, most of the other high-frequency keywords also were associated with the food system and well-being. Based on these findings, research on urban agriculture during Covid-19 generally concentrated on the crucial problems associated with Covid-19, especially for the food sector and health, rather than urbanization, which had been the primary focus in earlier times. Finally, we provide recommended ways forward for future studies in this field by offering insights into the current scope of the research landscape on urban agriculture and Covid-19, which had been neglected in previous studies.

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“…The old idea of ‘therapeutic landscapes’ has grown ‘as researchers have examined the dynamic material, affective and socio-cultural roots and routes to experiences of health and wellbeing in specific places’ (Bell et al, 2018: 123). For example, recent research on community gardens positions them as tools for place and community building (see Walshe and Law, 2022). Building attachment in novel ways and noticing the materiality of landscape are enabled also through Rickard and White’s (2021) study of barefoot walking and their detailing of the greater feelings of landscape connectedness that arose.…”

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Reimagining landscape: Materiality, decoloniality, and creativity

Mason,

Riding

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Geographers have been engaging with landscape since the beginning of the modern discipline of geography. A series of concurrent turns have taken place in human geography in recent years that are influencing the ways in which geographers approach landscape. We take forward new material, decolonial, and creative shifts in the discipline to reimagine landscape. Landscape is a geographical concept that has historically excluded a range of other voices and perspectives. To build a radically inclusive agenda for landscape research in geography, we put forward a generative conceptualisation of landscape that brings together (i) materiality; (ii) decoloniality; and (iii) creativity.

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Building community (gardens) on university campuses: masterplanning green-infrastructure for a post-COVID moment

Cited by 8 publications

References 34 publications

New European Bauhaus for a Circular Economy and Waste Management: The Lived Experience of a Community Container Garden at the University of Turin

New European Bauhaus for a Circular Economy and Waste Management: The Lived Experience of a Community Container Garden at the University of Turin

Global Landscape of Urban Agriculture and Covid-19 Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Reimagining landscape: Materiality, decoloniality, and creativity

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