Urbanising in Place. Building the food water energy nexus from below

Urbanising in Place

Call

  • Nexus

Project Website

http://urbanisinginplace.org/

Principal Investigator

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

Funders

  • ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council), FWO (Research Foundation Flanders), Innovate UK, Innoviris, MINCyT (Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation), NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), VIAA (State Education Development Agency)

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.

Region

  • Europe, South America

Country

  • Argentina, Belgium, Latvia, United Kingdom

Duration

51 months

Call Date

December 9, 2016

Project Award Date

February 15, 2018