Rural design conference scheduled for September 2006
January 21, 2006
(above: Wheatfield, a large public work by Agnes Denes, image copyright Agnes Denes)
Chapeau to John Thackara at the Doors of Perception blog who reports today about a rural design conference scheduled to take place September 4-7 2006 (somewhere) in the UK. Just have a look at what’s being developed for the programme! I am pleased to see that it is all about establishing and strengthening real connections between (urban) cultural producers and rural agriculture producers to the benefit of both.
In a conference forerunner in July of 2005, this is what they were talking about: farmers as curators - an international Rural Biennale for 2007, sustainable farm diversification, rural tourism, food marketing initiatives and staging the Rural Biennale as an integral part of a European Region of Rural Cultures and Farmer Creativity celebration.
To the list of interesting subjects already discussed and in the planning for September 2006, I would like to add: ‘rural farmer to urban farmer advisory partnerships for urban gardening/farming initiatives’. I can’t help but wonder if the experience and knowledge of the rural farmer can help urban farming inititives such as this wonderful urban farming project in East L.A from being under threat of closure due to urban land-use issues. Injecting (cultural) life into family farms suffering brunt of (European) Agricultural Policy might be just the ticket for rejuvenating a way of life under threat of extinction. Might not the urban farmer benefit from being part of this discussion and network?
- European Rural Culture events page
- Littoral - new zones for critical art practice. An excellent organisation website, with informative links on everything from an extremely mixed bag of individual artists and designers that use nature / agriculture / landscape as a creative platform, to cultural documents on foot and mouth disease!
- Cultural Documents of the Foot and Mouth Crisis in the UK
- Urban food gleaning project by Fallen Fruit
- The South Central Farms website is good reading if you want to get fired up!
- Pruned, weblog on landscape architecture and related fields.
- Pruned blog entry about South Central Farms in L.A.
- Pruned on artist Agnes Denes
- Brilliant films by Raymond Depardon about the demise of French farming communities in the Lozere were shown at the 2005 Int’l Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA) as part of a special tribute programme.
- Farming as a a landscaping trend in suburbia! (Landscaping is responsible for more than 80% of water use in the suburbs.)
- Doors of Perception review of urban farming proposal by Dutch architect Winy Maas
- Non-sanctioned urban gardening in Istanbul, entry in culiblog
- Innovation Network Rural Areas and Agricultural Systems
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debra at 11:47 | | post to del.icio.us
Hello:
I researched about rural architecture in Iran and I want send papers for your conference.please help me
Comment by parisa — April 13, 2006 @ 8:32