Miaoran Lang

Supervisor: Dr Sidh Sintusingha

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Food related issues are both local and global such as lower income group demands for affordable food while the middle and upper classes pursue a healthy lifestyle. In Western context, guerrilla gardening often happens overnight. It is a bottom-up practice through a temporary modification of a site for to demonstrate alternative potential of spaces. However, in China, the government is always at in a dominant position and it. It is impossible to do the practice in a purely bottom-up way.

This thesis demonstrates a mechanism in terms of how Landscape architecture academics and practitioners can work between government and local residents through their social, technical and intellectual resources by setting up 30-60days of ‘guerrilla’ urban farming experiments in three leftover space within an old community. At the end of each experiment, the performance, versatility, and engagement level will be monitored for data collection. These practice and research works, a practical model is synthesized that have has potential to be a reference for government to establish a more sustainable and security food system in the future planning provisions