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Silvia Pericu Architect, PhD, University Researcher and Senior Lecturer in Product Design at the Department Architecture and Design, Università di Genova UNIGE, since 2013. Her research interests focus on design's capabilities to contribute to territorial development and transformation in relationship to health, safety and sustainability. Main issues in the research are active and healthy ageing, adaptation of the urban environment to changing needs through a user-centered approach and co-design strategies for social innovation. On this topic she coordinated in the last two years the partnership activity of the University of Genoa, in the URBACT III Action Planning Network: ‘2nd Chance. Waking up sleeping giants, for a sustainable urban development’ and she Scientific manager of the Creative EU ‘Creative Food Cycles’ (2018-20) for University of Genoa research team.
The new contemporary multi-city needs the landscape as a proactive eco-systemic infrastructure in order to rethink the whole food system, from the design of public spaces to domestic spaces. In this direction, Creative Food Cycles (CFC) is an EU project that, according to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), addresses the topic of food as a cross-cutting factor and powerful accelerator toward the co-design of sustainability in cities. Design culture today has begun to question and innovate production, distribution, and recycling models of food cycles. In the post-consumption and disposal phase illustrated herein, making the most of food means conceiving waste as a resource for the creation of new sustainable materials or prototypes. The concept of food waste and food losses has been shown to be not only a topic at the center of the debate but also a powerful tool for raising awareness of sustainable development at the community level. The CFC actions shown here were developed with the objective of persuading consumers to change their behaviors, while at the same time exploring cultural and social perceptions. With the aim of making cities more sustainable, this paper describes tools to engage different stakeholders, such as architects, product designers, and citizens, from a cultural point of view. The ongoing research has turned in the end into an educational campaign and an open platform where prototypes, new materials, and products are developed as inspiration for change.
Manuel Navarro Gausa; Silvia Pericu; Nicola Canessa; Giorgia Tucci. Creative Food Cycles: A Cultural Approach to the Food Life-Cycles in Cities. Sustainability 2020, 12, 6487 .
AMA StyleManuel Navarro Gausa, Silvia Pericu, Nicola Canessa, Giorgia Tucci. Creative Food Cycles: A Cultural Approach to the Food Life-Cycles in Cities. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (16):6487.
Chicago/Turabian StyleManuel Navarro Gausa; Silvia Pericu; Nicola Canessa; Giorgia Tucci. 2020. "Creative Food Cycles: A Cultural Approach to the Food Life-Cycles in Cities." Sustainability 12, no. 16: 6487.