Visions of the Urban Green

Vasile, Maria; Grasseni, Cristina

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“…Artisanal (food) production thus confronts the ruination of post-industrial places, juggling the rationale of economic sustainability, community engagement, and gentrification. Historic craft/design divides are surprisingly to be found even here, for example when different 'visions of the urban green' compete for control of 'greening' plans for Turin's peripheries (Vasile and Grasseni 2022). Acknowledging the collaboration between landscape architect and cultivator seems as arduous as acknowledging the collaboration between architect and maker.…”

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“…For example, social diversity could be invoked and packaged as part of the marketing or 'branding' of 'green spaces', in projects of urban regeneration of unkempt or fallow fields in the urban peripheries of Turin. In some cases, aesthetics plays a hegemonic role in defining pleasant and coherent social spaces for food gardening (Vasile and Grasseni, 2022). The kind of skills that NGOs in particular need to develop in order to guarantee a steady flow of project-related funding inevitably moves the focus of long-term careers and capacities away from the core mission of sustainability and social inclusion (for example through collective food gardening or food surplus redistribution in marginalized areas) to the treadmill of third-sector funding (Vasile 2023).…”

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Skill, craft, and poiesis-intensive innovation

Grasseni

2023

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What is craft practice? The purpose of this paper is to contrast the categorization of craft practice with that of skill and innovation. I argue for the relevance of innovative skilled practice to future-making. Both skill and craft play an important part in collective engagements with futuring. With an ethnographic methodology, typical of anthropological fieldwork, I have explored skill in dairy farming, cheese making, and currently food gardening. In all these three realms, the results of ethnographic observation are that ideational processes immediately connect to intimate acquaintance with materials and ecosystems (including flora and fauna, soil, climate, landscape and humans). My conclusion is that craft practice and its outcomes imply a highly localized cosmology of evaluation. I show how comparative ethnography allows the mapping of these relations between people and places, and their more-than-local connections.

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Skill, craft, and poiesis-intensive innovation

Grasseni

2023

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“…Maria Vasile's fieldwork on urban gardening and food redistribution in Turin critically contextualizes various initiatives within neoliberal agendas of urban regeneration in this post-industrial and multicultural city, which shares with most growing European cities the issue of gentrification. Appreciating the diverse skills of urban gardeners, designers, and developers of new "community" gardens such as Orti Generali helps to bring to the surface the hegemonic power and exclusionary features of aesthetic assumptions about the urban green (Vasile and Grasseni 2022). Vasile also reports on the practices and related skills that are endangered by the regeneration of the urban green and hegemonic narratives of sustainability such as the spontaneous gardening traditions (orti abusivi) of old factory workers, who immigrated to Turin at the time of its productive boom, or itinerant shepherds, whose land use becomes reduced, contested and hindered.…”

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Reskilling for sustainability: A perspective from comparative ethnography on collective food procurement

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Kritisk Etnografi: Swedish Journal of Anthropology

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We complete this thematic issue's contribution on skill, food, and sustainability with a team report based on ethnographic research which focuses on reskilling for sustainability in multiple European locations and involving diverse social actors and stakeholders. The Food Citizens? project (2017-2024) is a comparative ethnographic analysis of collective food procurement networks and phenomena in European cities. Three Ph.D. candidates, two post docs, and one principal investigator -all trained as anthropologists -have worked on it in various phases and roles -from developing the project framework and conducting fieldwork to designing the project's i-doc (www.foodcitizens.eu). The project's principal investigator (Cristina Grasseni) has co-edited this kritisk etnografi thematic issue 'Is Europe skilling for sustainable food?', and one team member (Maria Vasile) is among the article authors. Team research had four foci of analysis -diversity, solidarity, skill and scale -and sought to explore them ethnographically, in the cities of Gdańsk (Poland), Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and Turin (Italy) in particular. Each of the team members brought ethnographic experience to the research process, including previous and ongoing research on solidarity economies, alternative food networks, and food heritage in European regions such as Croatia, Catalonia and northern Italy.Skill was one of the main research foci, asking which societal formations emerge or become visible around food provisioning (particularly at the level of urban foraging, short food chains and local food governance), and what roles skill and enskilment play in them. For the purposes of the project, skill was explored as the acquisition, transmission and performance of relevant expertise -as well as its absence or loss -not only in growing food, but also in managing food chains, setting governance agendas and collaborating within and across food networks. Skills were analysed as something that developed in relation to context-specific cultural, political and economic phenomena and as a means to observe these in terms of their practical unfolding. Operationally, ethnographic investigation was led by specific questions, namely: Which relevant skills do participants in collective food procurement have, and which do they lack? Which skills repertoires do their networks develop, and which expertise do they need for it? Do food procurement networks make

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Visions of the Urban Green

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Skill, craft, and poiesis-intensive innovation

Skill, craft, and poiesis-intensive innovation

Reskilling for sustainability: A perspective from comparative ethnography on collective food procurement

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