This year’s Architecture Sans Frontieres-UK summer school at the Eden Project will be a continuation of last year’s Edible Places summer school (http://www.asf-uk.org/case_studies.htm) and will be focusing on one of the most fundamental issues for the continued survival of human beings – food: where we produce it, how we access it and how we dispose of it. This workshop will explore ways of upgrading the urban environment through innovative and adaptable designs to respond to this need.  Through lectures, prototype designs and construction we will study the urban environment and understand how it can be more suitably adapted for sustainable living and eating environments. We will debate the possible natures of urban food cycles with Katrin Bohn and Andre Viljoen authors of CPULs (continuous productive urban landscapes), Clare Brass a social entrepreneur, product designer and founder of Seed Foundation and Adriana Allen (Senior Lecturer and Director of the MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development at the Development Planning Unit, UCL). We will discuss the importance of food cycles, and understand how they should contribute towards productive urban landscapes. By including social, economic, political and environmental issues we will place the development of the urban context at both an individual and collective level.

The programme runs from 12pm on Friday 3rd to 6pm on Wednesday 8^th of September and will be hosted by the Eden Project and ASF-UK.  The workshop will include visits to the world renowned Eden Project and exposure to the many excellent programmes they run. Lectures will be held by Katrin Bohn and Andre Viljoen (Senior lecturers at the School of Architecture & Design, University of Brighton http://www.bohnandviljoen.co.uk/ ), Adriana Allen (Senior Lecturer and Director of the MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development at the Development Planning Unit, UCL) and Clare Brass (social entrepreneur, product designer and founder of Seed Foundation http://www.seedfoundation.org.uk/).

Participants will then spend two and a half days designing and building prototypes and products for a sustainable food cycle. The prototype development will happen within the public realm at the Eden Project which will be a great opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of food security for every human being. The ASF-UK team will for this workshop include Melissa Kinnear (ASF-UK and tutor at Oxford Brookes University), Peter Newton (Roger Evans Associates), Mina Samangooei (Sustainable Architecture Masters graduate), Caroline Dewast and Teresa Rodriguez (Architecture diploma students) and the horticultural team at the Eden Project.