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Roberta Bartoletti University of Urbino - Italy The new season of urban vegetable gardens in the city of Bologna: intergenerational exchanges and environmental sustainability? Roberta Bartoletti University of Urbino Carlo Bo Italy International workshop#5 AGOR-AGRO Hybrid Parks Interreg IVC Programme Ferrara 7th November

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Presentation of the case study of urban vegetable gardens in Bologna at the international workshop#5 AGOR-AGRO (Ferrara, 7th november 2013) focusing on urban agriculture and its benefits from a socio-cultural point of view. It has been organized by Emilia-Romagna Region and the Province of Ferrara, as part of the European project Hybrid Parks Interreg IVC Programme.

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Roberta BartolettiUniversity of Urbino - Italy

The new season of urban vegetable gardens in the city of Bologna: intergenerational exchanges and environmental sustainability?

Roberta BartolettiUniversity of Urbino Carlo Bo Italy

International workshop#5 AGOR-AGRO

Hybrid Parks Interreg IVC Programme

Ferrara 7th November 2013

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Roberta BartolettiUniversity of Urbino - Italy

Allotment for working classes in 19th and 20th century

French family in a jardin ouvrier

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The research on social gardens in Bologna

- participant observation in a municipal allotment area in Bologna - interviews with contact persons of 4 municipal allotment areas (Barca,

Nicholas Green, Maggiore, Ca Bura) - 18 in deep interviews with “young” gardeners (with Giulia Cecchelin

PhD) - in depth-interviews or conversations with political actors and

participation to meetings on vegetable gardens public policies

October 2011-September 2012

Mai 2013-Augus 2013

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The institutional framework of gardening practices in Bologna: the evolution of a municipal policy

integration of elderly retired people and promotion of their active leisure and self-organization

recover abandoned and illegally cultivated land

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The building of an allotment area in the Eighties

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Today

2677 municipal plots

321 of them (12%) are assigned to “young” gardeners (18-50 years old)

more than 1300 citizens are waiting for a municipal plot

The social evolution of vegetable gardening in Bologna

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Are gardens spaces of development for a culture of environmental sustainability? JUST PARTIALLY

Do young gardeners participate in the traditional “generosity of gardeners”? YES, BUT…

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responsible styles of food production and consumption

direct connection with nature

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Intergenerational exchanges

Elderly recognition

“Gardener’s generosity” and gift culture

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Young gardeners introduced a deeper sensibility towards nature and responsible styles of cultivation

Young gardeners experience connection with elderly generation, contacts that in everyday life are lost

To conclude

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Thank you for the attention!

Roberta [email protected]

My publications on the topic:

Orti e giardini collettivi: pratiche grassroots e politiche urbane, in «Autonomie locali e servizi sociali», n. 3, 2012, il Mulino, Bologna.

Mappare la campagna in città: immagini tra New York City e l’Italia (with Pierluigi Musarò), in «Sociologia della comunicazione», n. 44, 2/2012, FrancoAngeli, Milano.

Pratiche di consumo e civic engagement: il consumo impegnato di natura in città, in Comunicazione e civic engagement, R. Bartoletti, F. Faccioli (eds), FrancoAngeli Milano 2013.