Kate Ashley_Introduction
Kate Ashley
Project Name: Consuming London
Project description:
Investigation of urban agriculture and concept of self-sufficiency, from this: today’s lost and much needed reconnection between the growing urban population and food production.
Large majority of space available is brownfield / post-industrial, posing a number of issues such as contamination etc. This led me to investigate bioremediation as an intrinsic element of today’s urban agriculture.
Introduction of a new public space and agricultural resource will aim to knit together surrounding fragmented communities including Elm Village and Maiden Lane , providing an employment/productive resource reflecting the historical social context of the St Pancras Workhouse (i.e. allotments: ‘gardens for the poor’).
The scheme network comprises of a Central/primary and subsequent secondary sites, feeding off of an arterial link, the canal.
Intensive agricultural production and manipulaton (e.g. GM ‘super black tomato’) reflecting changing social and climatic conditions will be explored as a beneficial resource through crop adaptation and mitigation.
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