Urban Food Mapping

Katrin Bohn is an architect and urban practitioner and a principal lecturer at the University of Brighton, UK. Previously, she was a guest professor at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, where she set up and ran the Department City & Food. Since the 2000s, she has taught, talked and lectured to many audiences in Europe and worldwide. Together with André Viljoen, she forms Bohn&Viljoen Architects and has worked intensely on their food-focused urban design concept CPUL (Continuous Productive Urban Landscape) which, in 2015, won the international RIBA president’s “award for outstanding university-located research”. Bohn&Viljoen’s work has been published widely and translated into several languages, including German, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, Persian, Russian and Spanish. In the complex subject area of urban agriculture and productive urban landscapes, Katrin has been conducting, participating in or advising on national and international design and research, urban planning and policy as well as pioneering food projects.

Mikey Tomkins is an independent researcher and artist. He holds a PhD from the University of Brighton, UK, where he researched the contribution of everyday community gardening to urban agriculture. Since 2004, he has extensively used mapping with UA research to answer questions on land availability and potential yields and the more qualitative exploration of the everyday experience of food gardening in cities. The map work is encapsulated in the Edible Mapping Project, initiated in 2009. It is a participatory mapping practice that has run in multiple cities and engages communities in revisioning urban space for food production through walking, mapping and growing. Since 2014 he has also been working with forced migrant communities and refugees, in the US and Iraq. This work necessitates in depth community engagement often under difficult situations, involving mapping constantly evolving spaces and implementing urban agriculture both in camps and cities.

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Howard Lee is a lecturer in sustainable agriculture at Hadlow College (University of Greenwich). He has a history of work for applied agricultural development (e.g. plant breeding) and of field research on aspects of sustainable crop production. He is currently committed to mapping urban horticultural agroecosystems, which contribute to greater food security and enhanced wellbeing.

Gundula Proksch is a scholar, licensed architect and associate professor of architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. She is the founding director of the Circular City and Living Systems Lab, an interdisciplinary research group investigating transformative strategies for sustainable urban futures. Gundula is a principal investigator of the National ScienceFoundation-funded project CITYFOOD with partners inGermany, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Brazil.Her book Creating Urban AgriculturalSystems: An IntegratedApproach to Design approaches urban agriculture from a systems perspective.

Andre Viljoen is Professor of Architecture at the University of Brighton,UK. Since the 1990s, he has been researching the role that urban agriculture can play in shaping cities to be more sustainable and resilient. Significant publications include Bohn&Viljoen’s book CPULs Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities (2005) and its sequel, Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing Productive Cities (2014). Andre has been chair of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Food Planning Group, and in 2015, with Katrin Bohn, won the RIBA president’s “award for outstanding university-located research”.

Ivonne Weichold is an architect, lecturer and researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, LU. She is currently an affiliated guest lecturer at the KU Leuven, Belgium, where she is teaching design studios at master’s level. In her research, she works at the intersection of urbanisation, design and geospatial analysis, focusing on the dialogue of soil fertility in spatial planning. Ivonne holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Luxembourg and a MA in Architecture and BA in Art History from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.