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Rediscovering Harvest for Everyday Urban Life According to the London Food Strategy a metropolitan food strategy could: significantly improve on the health of reduce the negative environmental impacts of the current food system, initiate and support a vibrant food economy, celebrate and promote improve overall food quality and develop      A contribution to: OPEN SCALE | young & local ideas | München 2009 An Interdisciplinary Competition of Ideas A BMVBS / BBSR National Urban Development Policy pilot project, City of München, Department for Urban Planning and Building Regulation. _______________________________________________________________________________________ AGROPOLIS MÜNCHEN Rediscovering Harvest for Everyday Urban Life A Farm in Freiham. Freiham is the next big development area of Munich; being literally transformed into a building site for approximately 30 years. Not l completion the Life in Freiham will be subject to building pits, construction cranes, excavations and fallow land. The aim of our proposal is to convey an impression of this transformation by allocating a consistent temporary agrarian use to future building sites, as it is already common and effective in Munich. Excavators and tractors in the area will not displace each other but through their coexistence will generate a new urban model: Agropolis. In a sequence of actions this temporary use can become a catalyst to integrate agriculture and food supply into Munich's urban development - in order to consolidate and strengthen urban density.     Temporary Urban Agriculture. In the intervening period before construction, the empty building sites in Freiham will be used intensively for urban agriculture. A temporary farm in a completely new layout will reconfigure correlations between food production, processing and marketing. Exemplary installations such as small-scale culinary, terrace, and roof agriculture provide incitement for urban expansion. The farm encourages the establishment of communal gardens and is a node for communication and integration; it moreover creates circulation systems of renewable energies and materials. Combined with low and zero energy housing Freiham will become a landmark of sustainable urban development. Research facilities, education and training programs, private cultivation, harvesting and processing, as well as child and school programs will cooperate. Experience and abilities to deal with natural resources are provided for. The farm obtains attraction and the branding for the new district. It draws visitors and customers and adds to the quality of life and recreational value. The farm as a temporary structure predetermines public space, establishing movements of people before the fist houses are built. The idea of urban agriculture will persist throughout the built-up and parklands when the farm finally yields the grounds to Freiham. The new role of Urban Agriculture. In terms of food, regional production has become an essential topic in discussions dealing with the goals of sustainability and energy saving. As our own mobility becomes sustainable so will that of food. Due to a growing global demand for food as a result of population increase and consequent decrease of landmass, the demand for agricultural land is growing. In response to the climate change an increase in agricultural land is foreseen to strongly benefit areas like central Europe, where soil amelioration suddenly becomes significant. Inner city areas tend to be some relevant degrees warmer - this could make them attractive cultivation areas, which would in turn alleviate and balance the inner city climate. The widespread demand for healthy food as part of a healthy lifestyle is growing; not only regarding bio-products but also for low cost self-sufficiency. According to these factors the role of agriculture and food supply will be reevaluated within the urban development of Munich. A Metropolitan Food Strategy. The now separate worlds of food production, processing and marketing on one side and everyday as well as festive food preparation are brought together again. The farm in Freiham is part of a widespread food strategy, which will generate various interactions, encouraging pioneer and minimally invasive interventions that have a positive effect within the whole city. Consistent with the London Food Strategy a metropolitan food strategy can: significantly improve the health of reduce the negative environmental impacts of the current food system, initiate and support a vibrant food economy, celebrate and promote improve overall food quality and develop In Finally, Agropolis’ networking, interaction and rediscovery of fundamental parts of a food system will be visualised in a food map. Awareness will be raised through a number of different installations such as salt spreading machines to distribute seeds, billboards set up on Ludwigsstrasse and temporary agricultural plantations integrated in parks and public spaces. Through this the iconic worlds of industrial agriculture like silos or harvester-threshers are targeted and generate discussions over the dimensioning and rediscovery of small-scale user defined manufacturing. However the aim is not to create images, but more to perceive the movements of harvesting, being part of everyday life as a motor for the production of space.  A regional Food System. In accordance with the responsibility of cities to provide energy, a food sustentation strategy offers not only security in a global context, it will also lead to a reevaluation of regional and local economies. Urban agriculture becomes a phenomenon that not only occurs in the periphery, where it is up until now suppressed by emissions, accessibility and environmental protection. The sphere of activity for urban agriculture and food strategy is spread right into the city and throughout the whole metropolitan region. An autonomous regional food system starts to become an attainable attractivity and feasibility. As well as the collaboration with marketing initiatives such as: Unser Land, Hermannsdorfer, Öko-Kiste, die Bioenergieregion Oberland, etc. Alliances between municipalities for food security are required, as has been done for water provision. A new form of urban landscape can provide spatial orientation within areas of urban sprawl. It can also help favorably in the enhancement of small-scale and mixed-use rural structures. Fragmentation, the ability to respond quickly, infiltration and conversion are displayed as real assets of urban agriculture. _______________________________________________________________________________________ © 2009 AGROPOLIS MÜNCHEN Joerg Schroeder, Architect and Urban Planner Tobias Baldauf, Landscape Architect and Urban Planner, bauchplan Margot Deerenberg, Sociologist and Human Geographer Florian Otto, Landscape Architect and Urban Planner, bauchplan Kerstin Weigert, Architect and Urban Planner Melanie Hammer, Cand.arch. Claudia Schott, Dipl.-Ing. Univ. Max Zitzelsberger, Dipl.-Ing. Univ. Johannes Maier, Cand.arch. with special thanks to: Edward Beierle für die Fotos Dr. Thorsten Haase, Agronomist, Peter Kneidinger, Ing., Vienna, Urban Farming projects in Marie-Theres Okresek, Landscape Architect, bauchplan, We gladly await your comments and suggestions, ernten(at)agropolis-muenchen.de
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