FoodCity Prato/Florence

Abstract

How can we regenerate a suburban space in progressive decline through agricultural activities and those related to food production and consumption? With this question as a premise, and using the urban edge of the Tuscan city of Prato as a case study, a large group of students and professors from the University of Granada, the Polytechnic University of Madrid, the University of Florence, and the Autonomous University of Lisbon worked intensively for a week in the FoodCity Prato/Florence workshop in February 2024. This workshop was part of the research activities of the R&D&I project PID2020-115039GB-I00 (Food and City, from the Domestic to the Public Space. Elements for a History, Arguments for the Contemporary Project, FoodCity). This article shows a selection of the work produced by the various participating teams of students.