Foodscape Schilderswijk - An introduction
Camera and editing -- Daniela Paes Leão Originally commissioned by Stroom Den Haag, Centre for Art and Architecture, URBANIAHOEVE is working on the development of a real edible city. Foodscape Schilderswijk is a design for a phased implementation of project locations that together describe an urban agriculture (UA) foodscape scenario within the context of Den Haag's Schilderswijk. The project presupposes local commitment to knitting UA and adjacent infrastructures into a coherent infrastructure. Specifically, this means implementing a spatially contiguous planting scenario in which facilities, (educational) activities, and platforms for (food-related) cultural content are connected to a diversity of edible landscape architecture. When implemented, Foodscape Schilderswijk's components will connect and grow in the public space supported by locals and community initiatives. In September 2010 the project participants have planted more than 30 fruit trees, herbs, and berries in formerly inaccessible green spaces.