Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2025

Teaching the agro-ecological spatial project as a lever for transforming urban territories

Enseigner le projet agro-écologique comme levier de transformation des territoires urbains

Résumé

This contribution will focus on the pedagogy I developed during my PhD, with students of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and geography. The common objective of these courses is to help students understand that food is an urban issue and a major project challenge for renewing the relationship between cities and agriculture, which has unfortunately been overlooked for too long. Indeed, the climate change effects and the potential difficulties of feeding the population by 2050 mean that we need to think differently about the role and spatiality of food production in planning practices, both in rural and urban areas. Three main dimensions of my pedagogy will be highlighted: the spatial description of agro-urban situations, the conceptualization of agro-urban issues and finally the agricultural spatial project. I will explain how my teaching is closely linked to practical fieldwork to describe urban agricultural landscapes. For this, I use a variety of survey methods (landscape reading, transect walks, farm visits, stakeholder interviews, etc.) and restitution methods (transect cutting, mapping). The aim is to address the positive and negative externalities of agriculture, using key concepts such as ecosystem services or nature-based solutions. I'll come back to my more theoretical teaching, which invites students to think about the future of urban territories from the point of view of agro-food and rural issues, and key concepts (such as systemic approach, urban metabolism, multifunctional soils, territorial co-benefits...). Finally, I'll be presenting how I train students in the agricultural spatial design, with a view to reterritorializing city-agriculture relations. My aim is to get students to explore the hypothesis of a agro-ecological urbanism (Tornaghi & Dehaene, 2021), which opens up conceptual and projectual avenues for renewing urban planning practices. To this end, we are exploring the hypothesis of metropolitan agriculture as a gateway to the territorial project, and the agricultual park as a particularly fertile project theme. The aim of this pedagogy is to question our ability to structure the metropolitan project through agricultural open space, and to develop an analytical and forward-looking approach to the transformation of our landscapes and our food and farming practices.

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hal-05143035 , version 1 (03-07-2025)

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Axelle Thierry. Teaching the agro-ecological spatial project as a lever for transforming urban territories. URBAgr’inn Days, University of Liège / ISS Wasabi 2.0, May 2025, Liège (Belgium), Belgium. ⟨hal-05143035⟩
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