{"id":6297,"date":"2022-01-25T10:39:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T10:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.t-factor.eu\/?p=6297"},"modified":"2022-04-23T14:29:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T14:29:23","slug":"eco-practices-and-nature-based-solutions-cities-as-living-organisms-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amsterdam.t-factor.eu\/?p=6297","title":{"rendered":"Eco-practices and nature-based-solutions: Cities as living organisms"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6297\" class=\"elementor elementor-6297\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-949b342 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" data-id=\"949b342\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-334340c\" data-id=\"334340c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4abbc5d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4abbc5d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.13.1 - 09-05-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>A T-Factor community of practice round table discussion<\/b><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6af6122 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6af6122\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2021 the T-Factor Transformation Labs (T-Labs) organised experimental activities, called T-Probes.\u00a0 They act as prototypes to open the pilot cities to new ways of thinking and test new approaches.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">T-Lab 1\u2019s probe, focussed on Arts, Culture and Creativity, explores how communities of practice can be convened and mobilised to address challenges with new approaches. A community of practice can be formed by practitioners from a higher education institute, a grassroots organisation or citizens from a local community.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through T-Lab 1 a range of cutting-edge eco-practices across the T-Factor consortium was identified and materialised through activities and the established ecologies of the pilots. The Probe put together a round table event in November 2021 to share this expertise, between these different actors, as a community of practice, and with a wider public.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The presentations were composed of practitioners from Amsterdam, Barcelona, London and Milan and addressed the shifting relationship between nature and urban transformation. The event stimulated a conversation between the four represented cities, with questions from the audience.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The themes and personnel of the presentations were:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">Session 1 &#8211; <\/span><b style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">Urban Ecology &#8211; <\/b><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">moderated by Karim Asry\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p><ul><li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rosalie Bak (Amsterdam &#8211; Waag), <\/span><b style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New approaches to Urban Ecology: the Amsterdam Science Park case<\/b><\/li><li aria-level=\"1\">Andrew Belfield (London, Public Works), <span style=\"font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">Eco-Civic prototyping: lessons from\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">R-Urban Poplar<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><br \/>Session 2 &#8211; <span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing ); background-color: transparent;\">Nature Based Solutions<\/span><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing ); background-color: transparent;\"> &#8211; moderated by Besnik Mehmeti<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isabel Ruiz-Mall\u00e9n (Barcelona, Urban Transformation and Global Change lab Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), <\/span><b>The transformative capacities of bottom-up climate resilience strategies<\/b><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrea Balestrini (Milan, LAND), <\/span><b>From spaces to places: participative approaches as starters towards ecologically sound landscape projects\u00a0<\/b><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What follows is a synopsis of the presentations and the key points from the discussions.\u00a0 For reference, the videos of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QZj4f2EF2s8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Session 1<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YLCweDr-mMQ\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Session 2<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are available online.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-82633eb elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"82633eb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.13.1 - 09-05-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.t-factor.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/element_separate-02-e1600864355918.png\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cbcc200 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cbcc200\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><u>Session 1 :<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9d39df7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9d39df7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><b>New approaches to Urban Ecology: the Amsterdam Science Park case<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-87b260f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"87b260f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rosalie Bak (Amsterdam &#8211; Waag) <\/span><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8a32248 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8a32248\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.t-factor.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/eco-practices-and-natura-based-solutions-2.png\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5125e79 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5125e79\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amsterdam Science Park is connected to green pathways into Amsterdam city.\u00a0 The methodology of this case study is expressed as a movement from co-practice to co-planning, leading to co-governance.\u00a0 The key question is \u2018how can communities convene and mobilise new approaches?\u2019<\/span><\/p><p><b style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">Urban ecology regards the city as a living space<\/b><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\"> rather than as a built environment. It traces the entanglements of human and non-human forms of life.\u00a0 It focuses on cohabitation and mutual dependencies, raising questions of mutual care and wellbeing. This leads to the question of how to renew the relationship of nature in the urban environment.\u00a0 The goals of this approach are to <\/span><b style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">introduce the ecology of non-human actors as active stakeholders<\/b><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\"> in the development of the Amsterdam Science Park masterplan and to strengthen and enliven the social, economic and ecological fabric of the site with meanwhile activities, leading to permanent uses.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">Eco practices are situated actions which are process based and community centric taking the form of embodied learning and active doing through co-creative and cartographic processes. Collaborations between artists, locals, leading experts and the non-human and non-living world are central to this process (for example, with the Arts of Noticing project led by the artist Anna Tsing). 4 examples of these collaborations were discussed; a co-creation walk, a co-imagining children\u2019s workshop, a co-development stakeholder workshop and a co-cultivation wilderness workshop.\u00a0 All these activities entail situating the subject within the environment, toward developing an alternative masterplan, inclusive of a multiplicity of perspectives and narratives. \u00a0 The Zoop organisation was discussed.\u00a0 Zoop is a new legal framework for non-human voices in businesses. It offers an overarching governance structure whose board includes a representative for the voices and interests of non-human life so they can become an active part of organisational decision making.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6f38552 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6f38552\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Eco-Civic prototyping: lessons from R-Urban Poplar<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fe16f77 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fe16f77\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrew Belfield (London, Public Works)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d62be5b elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"d62be5b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.t-factor.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/eco-practices-and-natura-based-solutions-3.png\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-749483b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"749483b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eco-Civic Prototyping is a situated design practice that focuses on <\/span><b>co-produced, bottom-up resilience<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, responding to local climatic challenges.&nbsp; Public Works is an Interdisciplinary design practice working between architecture, art and activism that aims to bring social and environmental change within cities. R-urban is a collaborative project between AAA in Paris and Public Works which supports alternative ways of urban and civic resilience through a series of eco-civic hubs.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">The talk focused on the work that has taken place at Public Works\u2019 Eco-civic hub in Poplar, London.&nbsp; The hub has developed incrementally and localises climate change questions in terms of co-produced bottom-up responses.&nbsp; The hub is constituted as a series of prototype infrastructures, testing a more resilient food system, improving air quality through green infrastructure and supporting the infrastructure toward the possibility of a more circular economy. Situated design practice responds to localised contexts, focusing on relational design practises, <\/span><b style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">building networks of solidarity and knowledge<\/b><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\"> within the hub.&nbsp; This knowledge is manifested through the prototypes the hub produces.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">The Poplar hub works between different communities within the locality and the presentation focused upon the respective communities of <\/span><i style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">place<\/i><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\"> and <\/span><i style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">concern<\/i><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">.&nbsp; The hub also works between human actors from the communities of residents, schools and youth groups and the \u2018more than human\u2019 components such as the developing ecology of the site.&nbsp; The presentation detailed the examples of 2 prototypes; moss walls and circular food systems where Public Works act as a co-learner, focusing on what they don\u2019t know to develop a response to a question.&nbsp; The question of scalability was discussed, how the circular food prototype can be scaled up to meet the needs of the 790 residents of a local housing estate.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-235ddd9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"235ddd9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Discussion: How to introduce \u201cmore than human\u201d solutions<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13ce33f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"13ce33f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The key question <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">how can stakeholders be convinced that the \u2018more than human\u2019 solutions can be scaled into being viable and sustainable solutions?<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> opened the discussion.&nbsp; Constant iteration was something that linked the 2 presentations. Prototyping as a way of community building in terms of communities of place and concern was identified by Amsterdam as being of interest. The Poplar hub marks a step change in terms of developing solutions with the communities and iteratively.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">In terms of scalability, London spoke of the need to talk to the different values represented by the prototyping from the perspective of local councils and funders.&nbsp; These values can be social as well as ecological. The question of how the proof of concept in terms of these ideas can be embodied into policy arose and was addressed by London from the perspective of how the Greater London Authority economically assesses projects such as theirs at the expense of social and ecological value.&nbsp; London was interested in Amsterdam\u2019s aim to get such values embodied into governance through the Zoop structure.&nbsp; There was also great interest from the audience about Zoop and is something that needs further examination as a way of embodying social and ecological values into policy. Amsterdam expanded on how Zoop works and how its legal framework operates as a neutral governance model.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">The question of the qualities of scalability arose, how something is scaled across a community and then across a city.&nbsp; London spoke of using network building and solidarity systems to facilitate this.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">The talk focused on the work that has taken place at Public Works\u2019 Eco-civic hub in Poplar, London.&nbsp; The hub has developed incrementally and localises climate change questions in terms of co-produced bottom-up responses.&nbsp; The hub is constituted as a series of prototype infrastructures, testing a more resilient food system, improving air quality through green infrastructure and supporting the infrastructure toward the possibility of a more circular economy. Situated design practice responds to localised contexts, focusing on relational design practises, <\/span><b style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">building networks of solidarity and knowledge<\/b><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\"> within the hub.&nbsp; This knowledge is manifested through the prototypes the hub produces.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">The Poplar hub works between different communities within the locality and the presentation focused upon the respective communities of <\/span><i style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">place<\/i><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\"> and <\/span><i style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">concern<\/i><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">.&nbsp; The hub also works between human actors from the communities of residents, schools and youth groups and the \u2018more than human\u2019 components such as the developing ecology of the site.&nbsp; The presentation detailed the examples of 2 prototypes; moss walls and circular food systems where Public Works act as a co-learner, focusing on what they don\u2019t know to develop a response to a question.&nbsp; The question of scalability was discussed, how the circular food prototype can be scaled up to meet the needs of the 790 residents of a local housing estate.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-525dd48 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"525dd48\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.t-factor.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/element_separate-02-e1600864355918.png\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-07a941d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"07a941d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><u>Session 2 :<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d59507c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d59507c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>The transformative capacities of bottom-up climate resilience strategies<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ca7be59 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ca7be59\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isabel Ruiz-Mall\u00e9n (Barcelona, Urban Transformation and Global Change lab Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f2d4df1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f2d4df1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.t-factor.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/eco-practices-and-natura-based-solutions-4.png\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9a04921 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9a04921\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The presentation focused on how the concept of transformative urban governance operates, beyond top-down actions toward<\/span><b> grassroot responses to environmental and climate change impact through community led, bottom-up resilience initiatives<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In the current context of increasing citizen mobilisation to climate emergency, cities emerge as a critical arena for community climate resilience to flourish and take a stand.&nbsp; A series of examples of such bottom-up initiatives were presented. <\/span><b><i>Rescities<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a project taking place in Barcelona and Seville where initiatives were mapped, published and disseminated.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">Can Masdeu is a self-managed, community-based initiative that promotes political and social awareness of the effects of climate change in Barcelona, developing 2 projects to tackle hydro-climatic risks. The first project is the restoration of a large raft of the Can Masdeu valley using approaches from forest hydrology, ecological restoration, bio-landscaping and permaculture to rehabilitate key infrastructure to store water in periods of drought and to reduce the impact of floods.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">The second project is based in the Can Masdeu community gardens, a 2,800 m2 area distributed over more than 30 plots.&nbsp; It was opened in 2002 and cultivated mainly by older people from the Nou Barris community and gardeners from the Can Masdeu hub.&nbsp; The old agricultural farm terraces were recovered, they have the potential to contribute to resilience against floods, heat waves and droughts. The project is open to neighbouring communities and other interested parties and is supported by a rich international network of universities and research centres.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">Another project focuses on urban and peri-urban self-managed community gardens where activities are decided collectively.&nbsp; Many of these projects claim public spaces and the right for the city to be green, for example, by squatting Barcelona\u2019s many vacant lots.&nbsp; Barcelona City Council has invigorated unused land for meanwhile use for up to 3 years for public and private non-profit entities through the <\/span><i style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">Pla Buits<\/i><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\"> scheme that aims to bring social involvement into this aspect of land use.&nbsp; Organisations are invited to propose activities that foster public use value of these lots. The programme aims to avoid unwanted uses and social exclusion and seeks to involve a diverse range of stakeholders in urban regeneration. A good example of this is an inter-generational project in Sant Andreu.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">The final project presented was a collective tree pit gardening scheme promoted by a non-profit workers co-operative which designs and manages community socio-environmental projects with the aim of re-naturalising the city.&nbsp; A diverse range of stakeholders are involved and share responsibility for the tree planting and maintenance.&nbsp; This addresses the major problem that the city does have the resources to maintain these pits. This project mobilises a volunteer network to look after them.&nbsp; This process improves rainwater retention in the subsoil, helping to reduce the volume of runoff and potential flood water.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">The takeaway from this session was that community institutions are resilient to change and learn from challenges in response to stresses and shocks such as floods and that they can foster transformative change.&nbsp; Transformative change at a regional scale can be too costly or socially problematic.&nbsp; Local transformative change in a sequential way can lead to feedback effects that improve resilience at a level that benefits the whole system.&nbsp; The major challenges of community climate resilience are that the community is often difficult to define, and it is not an isolated entity; communities are not homogenous units, heterogeneity need considering when trying to understand community resilience.&nbsp; Power issues also exist within communities as well as conflicting interests that can lead to the failure of bottom-up initiatives.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d186b37 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d186b37\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>From spaces to places: participative approaches as starters towards ecologically sound landscape projects\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-88ba18c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"88ba18c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrea Balestrini (Milan, LAND)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2825d9e elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"2825d9e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.t-factor.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/eco-practices-and-natura-based-solutions-5-e1643106966705.png\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-415fa15 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"415fa15\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The presentation started by highlighting the disconnect between people and nature and that this is the main driver that necessitates participative approaches in terms of nature-based solutions.\u00a0 This is against the background of increasing militation for environmental justice, especially amongst younger people.\u00a0 The EU has robustly applied its strategy for nature-based solutions since 2015 and in February 2021 this was in the form of the new <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">European Climate Adadption Strategy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Land<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as landscape architects, identify who is the inhabitant and who is the host within a project framed by the question, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">how can nature thrive alongside human activity<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?\u00a0 This was clear in the example of one of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Land\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> projects, a park which is a biodiversity corridor in Montreal that contains spaces for nature where humans are not permitted.<\/span><\/p><p><i style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">Land<\/i><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\"> is leading one of T-Factor\u2019s Transformation Labs, T-Lab 4, exploring the theme of Urban Design for Sociality and Wellbeing.\u00a0 In this context, T-Lab 4 has been running workshops with Pilot cities to <\/span><b style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">explore and experiment with ideas toward the testing and implementation of temporary uses<\/b><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">.\u00a0 This was carried out with the Milan and Amsterdam pilots by asking the question \u2018how can our relationship with nature be renewed in the urban environment\u2019. \u00a0 In 2021 exploratory events were organised with these pilots and their stakeholders to explore their contexts, leading to participatory events within the pilot sites.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">One of these events was focused on <\/span><a style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing ); background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.t-factor.eu\/t-probe-co-creation-of-an-alternative-mapping\/\">alternative mappings<\/a><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">. The methodology was in terms of preparing <\/span><i style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">Sensemaking T-Probe<\/i><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\"> cards on which there is a map of the area upon which a series of stations are defined along a trajectory within the site.\u00a0 These \u2018stops\u2019 were moments where a potential to investigate an aspect of the context was identified.\u00a0 Participants recorded their impressions of these moments. The data was then clustered, and each station was assigned a different character toward realising a specific potential.\u00a0 Some participants proposed actions, and the final stage of this process was the proposal level.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">The presentation then showed how this was applied to the <\/span><i style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">Mind<\/i><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\"> Pilot in Milan. <\/span><i style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">Land<\/i><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\"> invited local stakeholders from the pilot, who they had got to know during the exploratory phase of the process. The aim was to look at certain questions such as the accessibility to the site which is a major issue and how the perception of the landscape changes according to the means of transport that are used.\u00a0 For example, exploring the site as a bike ride. Human and non-human perceptions were mapped, helping to redefine the perception of the site.\u00a0 From the data that was processed from the cards, clustering of topics and keywords around each stop were identified.\u00a0 This has led to the construction of a placemaking compass which is a way to visualise the data clustering from the previous phase.\u00a0 Here, keywords and emotions are mapped toward possible key actions in proximity to the different stops.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight );\">Can Masdeu is a self-managed, community-based initiative that promotes political and social awareness of the effects of climate change in Barcelona, developing 2 projects to tackle hydro-climatic risks. The first project is the restoration of a large raft of the Can Masdeu valley using approaches from forest hydrology, ecological restoration, bio-landscaping and permaculture to rehabilitate key infrastructure to store water in periods of drought and to reduce the impact of floods.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight );\">The second project is based in the Can Masdeu community gardens, a 2,800 m2 area distributed over more than 30 plots.\u00a0 It was opened in 2002 and cultivated mainly by older people from the Nou Barris community and gardeners from the Can Masdeu hub.\u00a0 The old agricultural farm terraces were recovered, they have the potential to contribute to resilience against floods, heat waves and droughts. The project is open to neighbouring communities and other interested parties and is supported by a rich international network of universities and research centres.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">Another project focuses on urban and peri-urban self-managed community gardens where activities are decided collectively.\u00a0 Many of these projects claim public spaces and the right for the city to be green, for example, by squatting Barcelona\u2019s many vacant lots.\u00a0 Barcelona City Council has invigorated unused land for meanwhile use for up to 3 years for public and private non-profit entities through the <\/span><i style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">Pla Buits<\/i><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\"> scheme that aims to bring social involvement into this aspect of land use.\u00a0 Organisations are invited to propose activities that foster public use value of these lots. The programme aims to avoid unwanted uses and social exclusion and seeks to involve a diverse range of stakeholders in urban regeneration. A good example of this is an inter-generational project in Sant Andreu.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight );\">The final project presented was a collective tree pit gardening scheme promoted by a non-profit workers co-operative which designs and manages community socio-environmental projects with the aim of re-naturalising the city.\u00a0 A diverse range of stakeholders are involved and share responsibility for the tree planting and maintenance.\u00a0 This addresses the major problem that the city does have the resources to maintain these pits. This project mobilises a volunteer network to look after them.\u00a0 This process improves rainwater retention in the subsoil, helping to reduce the volume of runoff and potential flood water.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-weight );\">The takeaway from this session was that community institutions are resilient to change and learn from challenges in response to stresses and shocks such as floods and that they can foster transformative change.\u00a0 Transformative change at a regional scale can be too costly or socially problematic.\u00a0 Local transformative change in a sequential way can lead to feedback effects that improve resilience at a level that benefits the whole system.\u00a0 The major challenges of community climate resilience are that the community is often difficult to define, and it is not an isolated entity; communities are not homogenous units, heterogeneity need considering when trying to understand community resilience.\u00a0 Power issues also exist within communities as well as conflicting interests that can lead to the failure of bottom-up initiatives.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e62af2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1e62af2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Discussion<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ef74851 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ef74851\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The perception that the city should be tidy and regimented in the face of projects such as the Barcelona tree pits which are sometimes viewed by residents as being \u2019messy\u2019 was addressed. Often the tree pits are also simply seen as dog toilets, compounding this problem. In neighbourhoods where this was an issue there is an important need to communicate with what seems like very few citizens who have a strong voice.\u00a0 There is no easy solution to such resistance to urban transformation.\u00a0 This is also a challenge from the perspective of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Land<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who suggested the best way to counter complaints of \u2018mess\u2019 is to communicate how and when a project is working well so that the benefits of negative perceptions can be countered.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-font-size ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-f509bd9-word-spacing );\">There were also discussions about the need for nature-based solutions led by municipalities being maintained and that local action often is a solution.\u00a0 Inclusivity in participatory practises is an ongoing issue, where processes of levelling and collaboration must be continually reviewed.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-625838f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"625838f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.t-factor.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/element_separate-02-e1600864355918.png\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-28aa8f3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"28aa8f3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>KEY LEARNINGS<\/b><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8d11f79 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8d11f79\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Urban ecology regards the<\/span><b> city as a living space rather than as a built environment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It traces the entanglements of human and non-human forms of life.\u00a0 It focuses on cohabitation and mutual dependencies, raising questions of mutual care and wellbeing.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><br \/><\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Situated design practice responds to localised contexts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, focusing on relational design practises, building networks of solidarity and knowledge within a hub.\u00a0 This knowledge is manifested through the prototypes that a hub produces.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><br \/><\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The concept of transformative urban governance operates <\/span><b>beyond top-down actions toward grass roots responses <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to environmental and climate change impact through community led, bottom-up resilience initiatives. In the current context of increasing citizen mobilisation to climate emergency, cities emerge as a critical arena for community climate resilience to flourish and take a stand.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><br \/><\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participative approaches<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">identify who is the inhabitant and who is the host within a site, framed by the question,<\/span> <b><i>how can nature thrive alongside human activity<\/i><\/b><b>?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The activity of data collection can be considered both as a preparatory activity for the future development of a project but above all it can be the basis for a new knowledge of the place and its future vocations.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A T-Factor community of practice round table discussion In 2021 the T-Factor Transformation Labs (T-Labs) organised experimental activities, called T-Probes.&nbsp; 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