Description:
Food plays an integral role in the health and well-being of our communities. Come hear two real-world examples of private-public collaborations utilizing community-driven local food production and Urban Agriculture Imperative scale jumping with a school district to increase equity, environmental outcomes, and youth education and job skills.
Arch|Nexus SAC: Come explore inventive COLLABORATIVE urban agriculture strategies that create ABUNDANCE radiating beyond the LEED project boundary. Fulfilling the Urban Agriculture Imperative is especially challenging on a constrained urban site where the new building or renovation must occupy most of the site area. Scale-jumping of urban agriculture presents many more benefits to both the project entity and the “receiving” organization than other scale-jumping measures like solar panel location. This story will utilize a case study of Arch|Nexus SAC, the first Living Building that is an adaptive reuse of an existing urban building designed, owned, operated and occupied by Architectural Nexus, to focus on how the collaboration opportunity of scale-jumping urban agriculture creates opportunities for abundance for the project designer/owner, the partnering organization Sacramento City Unified School District, the larger community, and community policy advocacy.
King Conservation District:
Communities know what is needed for them flourish. They understand the skillsets, social networks, and resources of their area. King Conservation District and the City of Seattle developed a partnership framework that encourages community-driven solutions with a focus on equity and environmental justice. Learn how the Rainier Beach Farm Stand, an inclusive, community-of-color-led farm stand, created through this model, is an instrument for powerful environmental, social, and economic change. Hear from representatives of KCD, and the youth that managed the Rainier Beach Farm Stand about equity, asset-based community development, and the experience of creating an inclusive community farm stand.
Learning Objectives:
- How to utilize an equity and environmental justice framework to implement asset-based community development
- How to develop youth job pathways and community-based local food system involvement
- How to develop an inclusive community space such as a farmers market/farm stand.
- Understand Urban Agriculture calculations, impacts of local Scale Jumping and the value the approach can have supporting a challenged site, whether reuse or new construction.
- Realize the community engagement and educational benefits the fulfillment of Urban Agriculture Imperative has had on the Arch|Nexus SAC site, the Sutter Middle School site and the direction of the Sacramento School District.
This session is approved for the following continuing education credits:
- 1.5 LFA credits
- 1.5 AIA LU|HSW credits
