A Landscape Room of Commons: Regenerative Engagement in Zurich NorthLeonie Ismene Ehrler, Paulo Olivato, Serena Neuenschwander, and Livie Weidkuhn

There is a truce on the northern edges of Zurich. On the side of the urban footprint, a tendency for densification internal to the urban fabric. On the side of farms and protected areas, strong regulation creates a barrier to their shrinking. Stable borders invite a rearrangement of the landscape and agroecological relations on another level of participation and engagement between the inhabitants of these areas, workers, occasional users, as well as non-human agents such as soil, water, and air, among others.

Some initiatives of agricultural production supported by the community around the city and present in the study area inspire the proposal of a broad and integrated territorial vision facing the challenges of social transformations, consumption-food production, and climate change. Could we think of a reordering that can, at the same time, regenerate the soil and the agroecological fabric and re-approach the consumer to the productive processes through arrangements based on solidarity action? Can we delineate other landscape rooms in the metropolitan region?