Training in experimental food urbanism: narratives, tools and methods of architectural permanence and open programming

The École du terrain is a digital platform bringing together tools and resources for architectural, urban and landscape experimentation.

It brings together and explores unique projects and approaches that allow, through experimentation, the implementation of new ways of doing things. Each of these projects is rooted in its territory in order to work towards its best habitability by responding to societal issues. Thus, these projects are developed based on needs and desires. They rely on existing material - buildings, landscape, living things - and immaterial - inhabitants, users, their knowledge, their memories, their social organization. This food-producing and shared urbanism carries the deep ambition of reactivating our local democracies, thanks to the alliance of actors around a common interest on the ground.

Faced with the standardized frameworks of architecture and spatial planning, these actors (re)interpret and test them. We hypothesize that these multiple projects, like laboratories in action, create precedents and set jurisprudence. This is why the École du terrain wants to contribute to the dissemination of these approaches and to the transformation of frameworks – cultural, economic, administrative, regulatory – to give a voice to practices that have until now been marginalized.