Edible Landscape Tools

Edible Landscape Tools

Minimum Cost Housing Greoup
McGill University, 2005
The project team was formed by the following McGill staff: Prof. Vikram Bhatt, Rune Kongshaug, Prof. Jeanne Wolfe, Francois Emond, Clara Murgueitio, and McGill students: Jingfeng Cai, Lorena Rodriguez, Amal Jamal, Faiza Moatasim, Felipe Ochoa, Shannon Pirie, Li Ran, Yalda Rastegar, Guy Villemure and Nicholas Vreeland.

Making the Edible Landscape is a three-city project with the core objective of integrating Urban Agriculture as a permanent element in low-cost housing settlements. These three participating cities are: Columbo, Sri Lanka; Kampala, Uganda; and Rosario, Argentina. From existing settlements upgrading to the new urban developments in the partner cities, the project intends on applying UA as a subsistence resource for personal consumption and income generation.

Delivered to each of the city partners, it gives a simple set of instructions on the basics of integrating urban agriculture into and around the home, and throughout the community. Areas explored include street furniture as planters, water reclamation, basic site planning and composting. Though tailored to the partner cities, it’s a useful document for UA novices. The concept behind developing a catalogue came about early this year due to the interest of the local Rosario team in specific design interventions. In this case, the McGill student work was incorporated in the local participatory workshops. Also, the Colombo team became very interested in using this work for training and community awareness, thinking in translating it to the native language so that it could be use with the local community.

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