SOIL

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Facing the constant growth of human settlements and increasingly threatening environmental challenges, it is now urgent to consider soils as a resource providing a “wide range of ecosystem services” to both human and non-human habitats.
This research project aims at re-conceptualizing the relation between the city and its soils, while revising the paradigm according to which the city merely represents a threat for the natural environment.
Today extended urban formations made by a strong co-penetration of urban and rural realms characterize increasingly vast swathes of land all around the world.
In these territories, the renewed ratio between built and open space, permeable and unpermeable surfaces, opens up a wide range of questions where the role of soil becomes increasingly crucial and strategic.
By connecting the current research on urban soil, mainly produced by environmental scientists, to the most advanced research on the new forms of the contemporary city, the project explores the soils of the City-Territory as an occasion to innovate the urban and territorial project.
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Team

Paola Viganò

Martina Barcelloni

Marine Durand

Antoine Vialle 

Research Partners: Christophe Schwartz (Université de Lorraine – INRA / Laboratoire Sols et Environnement); Éric Verrecchia (UNIL / Faculty of Geosciences and the Environment / Ins tute of Earth Surface Dynamics)