Ms Lu Jin

Research project:
Wildly Productive Landscapes: designing for food system resilience through agroecological rewilding.
Project description:
Agroecological rewilding can be understood as the integration of productive food plants into everyday landscapes to reinstate the latent, ancient understanding of the provenance of food, medicine, fibres and energy sources. Its purpose is to catalyse greater exposure to and meaningful engagement with ecological processes through the incidental cultivation, preparation and consumption of food.
In this thesis, I explore the capacity for networks of wildly productive landscapes to build food system resilience through the agroecological rewilding of underutilised urban green spaces. I aim to develop a context-specific urban design model for the subtropical city of Brisbane, Australia, and develop a framework that can be adapted and applied to other contexts.
Researcher biography:
Architectural designer at Rotor, JDSA, Arcke.
Master of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium
Erasmus+, BAS, Norway
Diploma in Sustainable Living, UTas, Australia
Bachelor of Architectural Design, UQ, Australia
Research interests:
Productive landscapesagroecology, food environments, healthy cities, rewilding, urban foraging and food sovereignty.
Principal Supervisor:
Silvia Micheli
Publications: Jin, L., Micheli, S., Corcoran, J., Brogden, L., & Schmidt, S. (under review). Negotiating the boundaries of agroecological rewilding: Learning from food-growing practices in the public domains of subtropical Australia. In W. Rolf, S. R. Grădinaru, & M. Egerer (Eds.), Productive urban and peri-urban landscapes – benefits, co-benefits and new modes for planning. Springer Nature.
Contact Email:
m.jin@uq.edu.au