The EU Projects team from IAAC’s Advanced Architecture Group, represented by Chiara Farinea and Federica Ciccone, together with faculty Manuel Gausa participated at the kick-off conference at LUH University in Hannover

Creative Food Cycles is a Creative Europe programme co-funded research initiative that enhances innovative and creative practices between food and architecture, which is developed and realised by three cooperating artistic-scientific groups from IAAC, Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH) and Università degli studi di Genova (UNIGE). Architects, designers and creative professionals are involved with the mission to transform urban spaces into laboratories of “creative food cycles”. This aim is boosted by the combination of a wide range of the partners’ competencies in advanced information and communication technologies (ICT) by IAAC, urban resilience strategies by LUH, and inclusive citizen participation and co-creation by UNIGE.

IAAC contributed to the project’s kick-off session in Hanover with a series of talks that would highlight the contribution of the three main partners in the research initiative. The session was introduced with a conference about the three main drivers that intervene in the food cycles. In addition, the three main cities and urban laboratories where several different initiatives related to the project will be developed were presented: Barcelona, Hannover and Genoa.

The presentation on Barcelona was carried out by the IAAC’s EU projects assistant Federica Ciccone, and the section destined to Food Cycles’ “Production to Distribution” was held by the Head of EU Projects Chiara Farinea. Finally, as keynote speaker, IAAC senior faculty Manuel Gausa gave his lecture “From Public Space to Relational Space” to close the day programme. New devices and rituals in urban food production, distribution, consumption, and disposition will be designed and implemented, for extended education and training for audience development fostering the exchange of ideas in Europe.