GREEN-HER
Urban agriculture at the urban peripheries: Allotments, Community gardens and social struggles for green heritage
Programme: Una Europa
Call: Una Europa Seed Funding 2025
GreenHer analyzes the heritage dynamics of allotments and gardens located in European urban peripheries. It is based on the idea that gardens represent an important emerging heritage, contributing to the greening of the urban environment, greater biodiversity, to the mitigation of climate change, to food education, to the improvement of diet and food cultures, as well as neighborhood sociability in the neighborhood – offering a sense of belonging and mutual support. However, their lack of recognition as heritage sites and their location on the outskirts of metropolitan areas subject to land and property pressure make them vulnerable. In recent years, they have been the subject of social demands from local residents who are fighting for their preservation and conservation. Based on a comparative study of six urban & metropolitan peripheries (Paris, Madrid, Edinburgh, Bologna, Kraków, Leuven), the project studies these allotments and their emergence as a shared local heritage, and as an alternative scenario for metropolitan development, through the prism of their appropriation by local residents, in a context of pressures for urban redevelopment and densification.
Project duration
1/11/2025 - 31/12/2026
University of Bologna Coordinator
Valentina Orioli
Coordinator
Maria Gravari-Barbas, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1)
Partnership
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie (JU)
University of Edinburgh (UoE)
KU Leuven (KUL)
- Département de Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris :
https://seinesaintdenis.fr
- Usera City Council, Madrid :
https://www.madrid.es/portales/munimadrid/es/Inicio/El-Ayuntamiento/Usera?
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- Community Gardens Association of Madrid :
https://redhuertosurbanosmadrid.wordpress.com/sobre-nosotros/
- Urban Gardens Program of the Madrid City Council, Madrid :
https://www.madrid.es/portales/munimadrid/es/Inicio/Medio-ambiente/Educacion-Ambiental/Programamunicipal-
de-huertos-urbanos-comunitarios-de-Madrid/?
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- Community organizations Granton Hub, Edinburgh :
http://https//www.grantonhub.org/
- Friends of Granton Castle Walled Garden, Edinburgh :
https://www.grantoncastlewalledgarden.org.uk/friends/
- Foundation for Urban Innovation Rusconi Ghigi from Bologna :
https://fondazioneiu.it
- Norwid Cultural Centre, Krakow :
https://www.newtowninstitute.org/spip.php?article1404
- The community gardens of the city government, Leuven :
https://leuven.be/buurtmoestuin#waar-zijn-al-buurtmoestuinen
Total Budget: 31.486 €
DA Budget: 3.677 €
Professors and researchers connected to the project
Martina MASSARI
Non-permanent staff connected to the project
Nicolò MALTONI
Gloria LISI
Website
https://greenher.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en
Project ERC Sectors
SH7.7 Cities Urban, regional and rural studies SH7.8 Land use and planning SH2_1 Political systems, governance