Urban Roots // Forum #3: Climate, resilience & urban ecosystem services around food in cities
Date
Thursday, April 09, 2026
Time
16:00–17:30 (CET)
Place
Online (Teams link will be sent upon registration)
Participants
Anyone is welcome to attend the Urban Roots forums!
Registration deadline
Thursday, April 09, 2026
Urban Roots Online Forums are the first activity bundle of the Urban Roots project supported by the 6th EELISA joint call. They are open, theme-based conversations that explore the role of urban agriculture in shaping more circular, resilient, and socially just cities. Bringing together students, researchers, practitioners, local actors, and anyone else interested in these topics from across and beyond the EELISA Alliance, the forums create a shared foundation before the Urban Roots’ consecutive activities. Each forum subtly answers a different version of the same question: How can cities organize food systems in ways that are just, democratic, and resilient?
Forum #3 is to situate urban agriculture within climate adaptation and socio-ecological systems. Some of the guiding questions linked to the abovementioned core question for this forum are:
– How do gardens contribute to heat mitigation, biodiversity, and well-being?
– Where are the limits of urban agriculture as a climate solution?
– How can small-scale interventions scale systemically?
In a compact online 90-minute session, these questions will be investigated through short talks by invited experts, as well as collective breakout dialogues involving all participants, reinforced by polls, scenario building, synthesis, and closing reflections.
The invited experts of Forum #2 are as follows
– Dr. Kumru Çılgın Çalış (Moderator), TARGE & Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Urban and Regional Planning
– Prof. Andre Viljoen, University of Brighton, Architecture
– Assoc. Prof. Marian Simón Rojo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Urbanism and Land Management
– Yaşar Adnan Adanalı, Postane, Istanbul
The outputs of this forum will be a shared set of working definitions regarding climate, resilience and circularity, a shared understanding of co-benefits and trade-offs, and a conceptual bridge toward the upcoming activities of the Urban Roots project.
Stay tuned on EELISA and university channels, and visit urbanroots.info!
