Urban vegetable gardens and green zones of Bologna are the protagonists of Proiezioni ORTOgonali exhibition. It is of general knowledge that urban vegetable gardens are soil plots that are intended to be cultivated and whose use is regulated by the municipality. It is also known that urban vegetable gardens deliver the same ecosystem services that are recognized to soil by FAO. Just to cite a few of them: urban vegetable gardens may produce food, create employment, improve the life quality of people working therein, preserve the biodiversity by housing insects and animals, provide job opportunities to disadvantaged people and serve as open-air didactic laboratories to all effects. Urban vegetable gardens beautify our town and ameliorate our life by remembering the time flowing along the seasons and in the perennial sequence of sowing and harvest, of sleep and awakening. Each urban vegetable garden is a community inside the community with its own characteristics, rules, and hierarchy, where plants, insects, animals, and humans cohabit.
Curators: Ilaria Braschi (DISTAL | Università di Bologna) and Francesca Vaccari (Giardino Savioli).
Project funded by the Research and Innovation programme H2020 of the European Union (project FoodE 862663).
Catalogue freely dowloadable at http://amsacta.unibo.it/7140/1/catalogo_proiezioni_ORTOgonali.pdf
