Urban Foodscapes
Intersecting flows
A. Karnaszewska (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
R. Cavallo – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
F.J. Speksnijder – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
A.S. Alkan – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
D. Piccinini – Coach (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
Urban foodscapes project addresses issues concerning the food supply chain in London. It aims to combat problems created by current agri-business practice such as long, complex logistical chains, food waste, carbon emissions, wasted water, energy, labour and land scarcity. Foodscape, being both global and local, lies on the intersection of multiple material and immaterial flows, therefore the problems it creates cannot be solved by one discipline alone. The research unfolds the most pressing issues concerning the food supply chain and proposed urban strategy attempts to find ways to improve the system by integrating social and technological aspects to close food-related material and immaterial loops by looking into urban synergies to limit the waste of resources and create new social opportunities that will constitute a framework for the future projects of this kind.