Co Creating: The Role of community in place making for Food production
As a professional in the built environment and experiences; skills development for positive place making enables communities to be responsible as innovators of their environments by designing planning and creating places that suit their needs, support infrastructure and create environments that are long term goals for health and well being though creation of community gardens, vertical street gardens.
Connecting to nature through place making for purpose of food production leads to an increase in environmental awareness. Environmentally friendly lifestyle through community participation and cohesion helps bring communities together to enable co-creators of the design process of their environments such as designing planning and building urban places such as community gardens, vertical street gardens that helps blend with nature.
The aim of the research is to find out how successful urban cities can be, if ‘communities are given the opportunity to have more control over place making in their built environments by promoting ‘self-awareness and focus’. It is expected to gain greater benefit for development in skills for communities as well as find ways of being self-sufficient within urban settings.
The research will use a mixed method approach using quantitative and qualitative research to gain advantages of both approaches. I would like to use data collection as much as possible and create online questionnaires.
Rachitra is currently supervised by the following PhD supervisors:
- Dr Hocine Bogdan
- Dr Yazid Khemri
