FUI Lausanne is piloted by urban designers, architects, and landscape architects and draws on the expertise of researchers in fields ranging from agriculture, our first culture, to digital culture, our latest. The initiative has been awarded a three-year Swiss National Science Foundation Research Grant in the National Research Program 65 entitled New Urban Qualities. The research program “aims at (further) developing concepts and strategies for new urban quality and testing the feasibility of the research findings. The concepts will demonstrate innovative ways to achieve urban development, urban redevelopment, and urban planning in Switzerland that are realizable in the medium and long term. The concepts will base on the perspectives of urban planning and architecture, with researchers and experts in all relevant disciplines working together.”
FUI is conducted by an interdisciplinary team composed of four primary research groups, Verzone Woods Architectes (VWA), the EPFL Media and Design Lab (LDM), the Agri-food & Agri-environmental Economics Group (AFEE) of the (ETHZ) and Agroscope ProfiCrops. The design studies will be informed by techniques from the biological sciences, the social and the economic sciences and meet in the spatial realm of the contemporary city. The team is balanced between research and practice. Incorporating representatives of the agriculture and economic sectors and their academic branches into the FUI team as well as from both the academic and professional realms insures the preliminary step of implementation: connecting research to its application through feasible proposals.
The FUI team is advised by a group of FUI primary stakeholders and experts who play an important role in research development. The FUI Advisory Group brings critical insight and context or field specific knowledge in framing site selection, pilot project development and implementation strategy. These primary stakeholders and experts are also uniquely positioned to challenge and orient the research with regard to public interest, a crucial element in a viable implementation strategy. The FUI Advisory Group includes:
Members of the Lausanne administration: Patrice Bulliard – head of the service of urbanism, Pierre Sterchi – parks and projects, Roland Schmid – agricultural domains.
Urban designer and pilot of the revision of the Lausanne “Plan Directeur Communal”: Igor Andersen from Urbaplan
Architect and author of CPULs, Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Design Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities: Andre Viljoen (in a supervisory expert capacity)
FUI is supported by a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation under the National Research Programme NRP 65 “New Urban Quality”.
Contact
Craig Verzone
Verzone Woods Architectes, Route de Flendruz 20, La Cure, CH-1659, Rougemont, Suisse
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