FCL Global - Tana: Co-designing a Blue-green Future for the Agro-urban City of Antananarivo
Context
In the Future City Lab Global project in Antananarivo, our interdisciplinary team looks into the possibility to design and steer the capital of Madagascar towards resilient and sustainable landscapes. The city is a bustling metropolis made of an amazing patchwork of farming plots in a flood plain and traditional urban settlements on hills. With its rapid development, Antananarivo is putting a significant pressure on water and its green areas. In particular, urban growth comes at the expense of cultivated area, thus reducing the landscape capacity to cope with floods.
The research project
The project looks into the possibility to co-design a future for the city based on the use of green and blue infrastructures providing key ecosystem services. First and foremost, it means food security and flood control, but also aesthetics and recreation services for city dwellers.
The project involves inter-connected research groups around a science-design loop. Landscape architects, will propose landscape designs for the city of Antananarivo. These designs will be made available with 3d point cloud technology. Flood models and knowledge of plants and green infrastructure supplying key ecosystem services will feed the designing process. Through feedback loops, flood and plant models will test the capacity of the designs to deliver these services based on blue and green infrastructures. The project also studies the governance of the city towards more resilient and sustainable landscape through social network and institutional analysis as well as the identification of agents of change. Finally, the project is engaged in a participatory modelling process with main stakeholders and identified agents of change to explore the possible pathways for the city to implement blue-green infrastructures. Results will be in dialogue and compared with the city of Singapore.
More info in the project website
Team
Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey
Dr. Perrine Burnod
external pageDr. Michiel van Breugel
external pageProf. Dr. Max Maurer
external pageProf. Dr. Pete Messerli
Dr. Bruno Ramamonjisao