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Orchards from the forest: Urban agriculture as a lab for multiple learning

  • Alessandra Pavesi
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Frontiers of Science and Technology
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Abstract

The destruction of Cerrado (Brazilian savannah), the second largest Brazil’s biome after Amazonia, has become the main concern of urban collectives whose activity consists in reintroducing elements of this important ecosystem in the landscape of the cities and in the imagery of their inhabitants. This paper focuses on a conceptual and methodological approach aimed at analyzing and fostering the practice of Cerrado cultivation in urban settings, with an emphasis on the collaborative learning processes it entails. This approach is based on the cultural historical activity theory and it reframes urban farming for Cerrado regeneration from a systemic, developmental and participative perspective, in order to analyze structure and dynamics of the activity and to assist practitioners in identifying and handling the evolving tensions and contradictions internal and external to the activity system, by rethinking its object and designing new actions and artifacts needed to materialize it.

Abstract

The destruction of Cerrado (Brazilian savannah), the second largest Brazil’s biome after Amazonia, has become the main concern of urban collectives whose activity consists in reintroducing elements of this important ecosystem in the landscape of the cities and in the imagery of their inhabitants. This paper focuses on a conceptual and methodological approach aimed at analyzing and fostering the practice of Cerrado cultivation in urban settings, with an emphasis on the collaborative learning processes it entails. This approach is based on the cultural historical activity theory and it reframes urban farming for Cerrado regeneration from a systemic, developmental and participative perspective, in order to analyze structure and dynamics of the activity and to assist practitioners in identifying and handling the evolving tensions and contradictions internal and external to the activity system, by rethinking its object and designing new actions and artifacts needed to materialize it.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Contents VII
  4. About the editors XI
  5. Part I: Future cities
  6. Biopotent social technology: occupations park and university extensions 1
  7. Performance potentials: the optimization of buildings in operation 21
  8. Climate culture building: comparison of different computer generated building envelope designs for different Brazilian climate zones 35
  9. Electrical energy efficiency in urban infrastructure systems: nonintrusive smart meter for electrical energy consumption monitoring 47
  10. Distinct approaches to reproduce hygrothermal behavior of building materials based black-box models 61
  11. Part II: Modern urban agriculture
  12. Investigating the challenges and opportunities of urban agriculture in global north and global south countries 95
  13. Social technology and urban agriculture in Brazil: the social technology network and the social technology DataBank project 111
  14. Orchards from the forest: Urban agriculture as a lab for multiple learning 121
  15. Part III: Renewable energy
  16. The challenges of the new energy revolution 137
  17. Synthesis of inorganic energy materials 159
  18. Part IV: Sustainable smart materials
  19. Nature-inspired smart materials for multifunctional applications 177
  20. Smart fiber-reinforced polymer composites and their resource-efficient production by means of sensor integration 191
  21. The role of biologically inspired design to 4D printing development 205
  22. Influence of different carbon nanotubes types in dynamic-mechanical properties of lightweight carbon felt/CNTs composites 215
  23. Light-assisted synthesis of colloids and solid films of metallic nanoparticles 225
  24. The influence of polymeric interlayers on damping behavior of a fiber metal laminate 239
  25. Piezoresistivity of low carbon nanotubes content in elastomeric polymer matrix 259
  26. Improvement of fatigue strength of carbon fiber reinforced polymers by matrix modifications for ultrafast rotating flywheels 279
  27. Experimental study of thermal conductivity, viscosity and breakdown voltage of mineral oil-based TiO2 nanofluids 290
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110584455-008

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Contents VII
  4. About the editors XI
  5. Part I: Future cities
  6. Biopotent social technology: occupations park and university extensions 1
  7. Performance potentials: the optimization of buildings in operation 21
  8. Climate culture building: comparison of different computer generated building envelope designs for different Brazilian climate zones 35
  9. Electrical energy efficiency in urban infrastructure systems: nonintrusive smart meter for electrical energy consumption monitoring 47
  10. Distinct approaches to reproduce hygrothermal behavior of building materials based black-box models 61
  11. Part II: Modern urban agriculture
  12. Investigating the challenges and opportunities of urban agriculture in global north and global south countries 95
  13. Social technology and urban agriculture in Brazil: the social technology network and the social technology DataBank project 111
  14. Orchards from the forest: Urban agriculture as a lab for multiple learning 121
  15. Part III: Renewable energy
  16. The challenges of the new energy revolution 137
  17. Synthesis of inorganic energy materials 159
  18. Part IV: Sustainable smart materials
  19. Nature-inspired smart materials for multifunctional applications 177
  20. Smart fiber-reinforced polymer composites and their resource-efficient production by means of sensor integration 191
  21. The role of biologically inspired design to 4D printing development 205
  22. Influence of different carbon nanotubes types in dynamic-mechanical properties of lightweight carbon felt/CNTs composites 215
  23. Light-assisted synthesis of colloids and solid films of metallic nanoparticles 225
  24. The influence of polymeric interlayers on damping behavior of a fiber metal laminate 239
  25. Piezoresistivity of low carbon nanotubes content in elastomeric polymer matrix 259
  26. Improvement of fatigue strength of carbon fiber reinforced polymers by matrix modifications for ultrafast rotating flywheels 279
  27. Experimental study of thermal conductivity, viscosity and breakdown voltage of mineral oil-based TiO2 nanofluids 290
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