Abstract
Urban communities are particularly vulnerable to the future demand for food, energy and water, and this vulnerability is further exacerbated by the onset of climate change at local. Solutions need to be found in urban spaces. This article based around urban design practice sees urban agriculture as a key facilitator of nexus thinking, needing water and energy to be productive. Working directly with Urban Living Labs, the project team will co-design new food futures through the moveable nexus, a participatory design support platform to mobilize natural and social resources by integrating multi-disciplinary knowledge and technology. The moveable nexus is co-developed incrementally through a series of design workshops moving around living labs with the engagement of stakeholders. The methodology and the platform will be shared outside the teams so that the knowledge can be mobilized locally and globally.
Highlights
This is a century of cities (Nature, 2010)
Designing solutions to improve the efficiency of land and space use for food production and ecosystem services with less energy and water consumption by integration of FEW technology and knowledge; 3
There exists a long list of indicators to assess the impact of human activities on the environment, such as the most typical ones, food mileage (f), CO2 emissions (e), virtual water use (w), Ecological Footprint (EF), etc
Summary
More than 50% of the world’s population lives in cities, and this number is expected to reach 68% in 2050 (UN, 2018). Urban Planning, 2019, Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 123–138 infrastructure is generally well-developed and living environment is maintained, FEW issues are not typically discussed as day-to-day concerns. Citizens mostly see FEW provisions as a given, and often do not show any particular interest except the bills, both in regular times as well as in preparation for disasters and accidents governments and urban utility sectors are constantly challenged to be able to provide stable, sustainable and prevalent FEW services (Romero-lankao, Mcphearson, & Davidson, 2017). With progressing climate change, aging population, and deteriorating infrastructure, there is a growing awareness of risks to the sustainability of FEW in cities (IPCC, 2014; Moss et al, 2010), in the developed world (IRENA, 2015; White, Wutich, Larson, & Lant, 2015)
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