INTERNATIONAL REGENERATION WORKSHOP Food sovereignty and urban orchards: community-led initiatives for sustainable food environments. Barrio ‘La lucha de los pobres’, Quito. Ecuador. 13th to the 23rd of March 2022 This workshop is part of the Master of International Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture MICSEA of the UIC Barcelona (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya). The workshop includes a field trip to Quito, Ecuador where participants partner with FLACSO Research Center and Ayriwa Comunidad as local agents on sustainable development and emergency projects. To see the full program click here.

[+] Objectives
The workshop’s objective is to develop an integrated (from landscape to urban orchards) and social diagnosis developed through community participation to deliver specific regenerative and risk prevention proposals for the ‘Barrio Lucha de los Pobres’ in Quito, Ecuador. Specifically, we will be involved in the regeneration and mapping of green infrastructure and urban orchards (collective and individual) as well as the systemic documentation of the overall food environment of the community spaces and households.

[+] Methodology
To achieve the IRS research goals, the MICSEA team will be involved in the analysis and mapping of green infrastructure and urban orchards in La Lucha De Los Pobres and its surrounding regions. They will be using systemic methods during their time working in the context to document food environments embed in community spaces and households in the Barrio. This will be accomplished through four methodological steps designed to combine endogenous and exogenous development approaches and knowledge sharing techniques that highlight local epistemologies and long-term bottom-up strategies. IRS STEPS: STEP 1 – OFFSITE SPATIAL DIAGNOSIS STEP 2 – PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT ONSITE STEP 3 – SOCIAL APPROACHES STEP 4 – SOCIO-SPATIAL INTEGRATION OF THE DATA COLLECTED AND STRATEGIC PROPOSALS

[+] Results
Group 1. Green infrastructure (landscape, topography, natural elements, open spaces, parks, plazas, urban orchards); Blue infrastructure (rainwater collection, stormwater drainage, sewage systems, natural freshwater sources). Initial risk assessment. Proposals Group 1: Krishna Jithendra Kumar, Yohana Alves Soares, Lubna Chaudhry, Wei Lin, Lina Baishya. Final presentation here. Group 2. Environmental conditions: climate change risks, natural disasters, temperature/rainfall/wind, resource availability, farming and irrigation methods. Proposal Group 2:Jocelyn Keller, Aline Vandriessche, Shilpa Menon, Alfred el Kareh, Nedjine Dorcely. Final presentation here Group 3. Urban fabric and activities homogenous fabric, typology and density; urban facilities and activities (commercial, markets and food production/distribution, circular economies, industry, etc.). Informal and formal borders and typologies. Proposal Group 3: Dona Lucia Abou, Ceren Demirkol, Rodis Chamoun, Christine Lu, Andrija Terzic. Final presentation here Group 4. Mobility and accessibility (public transport, roadway system, accessibility); safety, the relationship of La Lucha de los Pobres with respect to the new mobility of the Metropolitan plan. Proposal Group 4: Jana Zein, Victoria Vandewalle, Adarsh Joshi, Ninon Esclangon.Final presentation here

[+] Organization
Workshop Coordinators: Master International Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture. UIC Barcelona. Dr. Carmen Mendoza Arroyo and Arch. Farzana Gandhi. Assistant Researcher: Ashley Howard Collaborating Institutions: FLACSO Ecuador: Myriam Paredes and Sara Latorre. University of Montreal: Gonzalo Lizarralde, Benjamin Herazo and Gabriela Gonzales. Local actors: AYRIWA. Consejo comunitario del barrio/ Community neighborhood council.

www.grif.umontreal.ca/AFS/