School of Geography - Faculty of Environment

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

Dr Chiara Tornaghi is a ESRC Research Fellow. Her research project is focussed on the experimental construction of a social platform on Urban Agriculture in the Leeds City Region. She has done research on the social construction of public space, on relational public art and on citizens' engagement in place-making.

CURRENT PROJECTS

Urban agriculture, social cohesion and environmental justice. An action-research project to inform responsive policy making: http://www.urbanfoodjustice.org/

Edible Public Space: www.ediblepublicspace.org

RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS

• Cities and Social Justice

PUBLICATIONS

• TORNAGHI Chiara (2010), “Experimenting action research in planning education: a reflection on research ethics”, in "Öffentliche Räum in Favoriten. Playful spatial games als methodische Tools in raumbezogenen Interessenmediationsprozessen.", Vienna: Stadtentwicklung Wien, pp. 26-31 – in English and German
• TORNAGHI Chiara (2010), “Gemeinschaftliche Aneignung. Öffentlicher Raum partizipativ gestalten” (Emancipatory urban public spaces for the Youth: possibilities, challenges and ways to implementation), in Frei Raum Szene Salzburg. Stadt gestalten – Menschen bewegen, Salzburg: Stadt Magistrat Stadtplanung und Verker – In German

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