Project Profile: Urbanising in Place
Urbanising in Place. Building the food water energy nexus from below
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Dr. Ir. Michiel Dehaene, Ghent University - Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Belgium |
| Partners: | Dr. Rubén Piacentini, Universidad Nacional de Rosario and CONICET - Instituto de Física Rosario, Argentina Joachim Declerck, Architecture Workroom Brussels, Belgium Dr. Fernando Mello Franco, URBEM - Instituto de Urbanismo e Estudos para a Metrópole, Brazil Liene Jakobsone, Art Academy of Latvia - Institute of Art History, Latvia Dr. Han Wiskerke, Wageningen University - Rural Sociology Group, Netherlands Manten Devriendt, Sampling, Latvia Javier Rojo, Quantum Waste Ltd, United Kingdom Dr. Chiara Tornaghi, Coventry University (UK) - Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR), United Kingdom Vanesa Castan Broto, University of Sheffield - ICOSS, United Kingdom Mark Walton, Shared Assets, United Kingdom |
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What?
| Full Project Title: | Urbanising in Place. Building the food water energy nexus from below |
| Full Call Title: | Nexus2016 |
| Website: | http://urbanisinginplace.org/ |
Why?
| Project Objective: | The project will identify ways of transforming urbanization to reintegrate food growing within urban metabolisms, by working on four areas: 1. Metabolizing waste streams 2. Claiming metabolic positions 3. Enabling alternative, localize metabolic ecologies 4. Capturing metabolic value |
| Call Objective: | The Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI)/Food-Water-Energy Nexus is a joint call established in order to bring together actors to find innovative new solutions to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus challenge. The ultimate goal is to increase the access and the quality of life. |
Where?
| Regions: | Europe, South America |
| Countries: | Argentina, Belgium, Latvia, United Kingdom |
When?
| Duration: | 51 months |
| Call Date: | December 9, 2016 |
| Project Award Date: | February 15, 2018 |
