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作者

Anke Brons;Koen van der Gaast;Harrison Awuh;Jan Eelco Jansma;Claudia Segreto;Sigrid Wertheim-Heck

来源

CITIES,Vol.123,Issue1,Article 103552

语言

英文

关键字

Sustainability;Food;Democracy;Inclusive governance;Participatory research;Futuring

作者单位

Food and Healthy Living, Aeres University of Applied Sciences Almere, Stadhuisstraat 18, Almere, 1315 HC, the Netherlands;Environmental Policy, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, the Netherlands;Urban Economics, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, the Netherlands;Wageningen Plant Research, Wageningen University and Research, PO Box 430, 8200 AK Lelystad, the Netherlands;Food and Healthy Living, Aeres University of Applied Sciences Almere, Stadhuisstraat 18, Almere, 1315 HC, the Netherlands;Environmental Policy, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, the Netherlands;Urban Economics, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, the Netherlands;Wageningen Plant Research, Wageningen University and Research, PO Box 430, 8200 AK Lelystad, the Netherlands

摘要

Citizen engagement is heralded as essential for food democracy and equality, yet the implementation of inclusive citizen engagement mechanisms in urban food systems governance has lagged behind. This paper aims to further the agenda of citizen engagement in the transformation towards healthy and sustainable urban food systems by offering a conceptual reflection on urban living labs (ULLs) as a methodological platform. Over the past decades, ULLs have become increasingly popular to actively engage citizens in methodological testbeds for innovations within real-world settings. The paper proposes that ULLs as a tool for inclusive citizen engagement can be utilized in two ways: (i) the ULL as the daily life of which citizens are the experts, aimed at uncovering the unreflexive agency of a highly diverse population in co-shaping the food system and (ii) the ULL as a break with daily life aimed at facilitating reflexive agency in (re)shaping food futures. We argue that both ULL approaches have the potential to facilitate inclusive citizen engagement in different ways by strengthening the breadth and the depth of citizen engagement respectively. The paper concludes by proposing a sequential implementation of the two types of ULL, paying attention to spatial configurations and the short-termed nature of ULLs.