Our Mission The Edible Schoolyard Project is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the transformation of public education by using organic school gardens, kitchens, and cafeterias to teach both academic subjects and the values of nourishment, stewardship, and community. Edible education provides hands-on experiences that connect students to food, nature, and each other; and it systematically addresses the crises of climate change, public health, and social inequality. At its heart is a dynamic and joyful learning experience for every child. Our Story Founded in 1995 by chef, author, and activist Alice Waters, the Edible Schoolyard Project began as an idea to transform the food experience at a public middle school in Berkeley, California. As the idea took shape, a coalition of educators, families, farmers, cooks, and artists joined the effort, working closely with students to create a flourishing garden and kitchen classroom. Today, the Edible Schoolyard at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School serves as a demonstration site and innovation hub for the field of edible education. Our curriculum offers students experiential learning opportunities that deepen their relationship with food, facilitate learning the skills of cooking and gardening, build their capacity for critical examination of the food system, and develop their agency to affect change in their own lives and in their communities. source: nycfoodpolicy source: The edible school yard, Nancy Borowick source: The edible school yard source: The edible school yard

Echo Park Film Center (established 2001) and the EPFC Collective (launched 2022) provide all-ages community film/video workshops, screenings, resources and residencies in Los Angeles and around the world. The EPFC Collective is a fluid and ever-evolving multi-generational, multi-cultural working group that came together in 2022 with open hearts to share an array of skills, experiences, and interests, united in our passionate belief in the power and joy of collaborative creative practice to support and strengthen community. Source images & texte EPFC COLLECTIVE

CUP was founded in 1997 by artist and architect Damon Rich with co-founders Oscar Tuazon (artist), Stella Bugbee (graphic designer), Josh Breitbart (media activist), Jason Anderson (architect), AJ Blandford (architectural historian), Sarah Dadush (attorney), Althea Wasow (filmmaker), and Rosten Woo (policy analyst). During the fall of 2003, at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, CUP organized the exhibition City Without a Ghetto on the theme of low-income housing development in New York City since the late 1940s. In 2011, CUP received a Rockefeller CIF grant to develop its Public Access Design project. This project aimed to connect graphic designers with struggling communities. In November 2018, CUP partnered with the Drawing Center of New York to advocate for civic engagement through drawing and design. Design that breathes life into important regulations, smartsign Center for Urban Pedagogy, Freedom and Incarceration, New York, NY TOC of MONU #23 ‘Participatory Urbanism’

The Center for Land Use Interpretation The lab hosted a collective reflection space between different agents in the cultural and creative european ecosystem, from artists, cultural and innovation facilitators, policy makers to citizens. The main topic we explored together was the creation of new “homes of commons”, as spaces of encounter between the European and the local level, spaces where local territories and local actors are empowered and have a closer contact with the EU and its decision making structures. The objective of the three days we worked together was to ideate these “homes of commons” and their participatory tools, governance, administrative structures, spaces of encounter, physical or digital. Source images Source text: The Center for Land Use Interpretation