Knitting Food: Food and Eco-textiles New Perspectives for Sustainable Urban Production Systems

This book focuses on the emerging field of food waste-based eco-textiles. Eco-textiles, eco-leathers and bio-skins are now an important category of biomaterials with immediate applications in sustainable industrial production and the circular economy. In this sense, the book brings together new collaborative and interdisciplinary projects and artistic crossovers specialised in eco-textile research, (re)design and functional use of organic and food waste, in a vision that starts from the product dimension and reaches the urban scale.

Rural Landscapes and Agro-Revolutions.- Performative Food-Matters: food, waste and biomaterials.- Food second-life as innovative research.- Eco-Textile as (Cr)edible Matters.- Knitting-Food: a global catalogue of eco-textiles.- Eco-Textiles: new challenges and future perspectives.

Manuel Gausa is Full Professor in Advanced Urban Planning and Urban Design (DAD-Department of Architecture and Design) and coordinator of ADD-UNIGE, Doctorate School in Architecture and Design at the University of Genoa. He is Co-founder and Dean of IAAC-Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona (2012-2015), Director of the journal Quaderns d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme (1991-2000) and co-founder of the Actar group. He is also scientific coordinator of the GicLab research group at dAD, UniGe. His research focuses on the themes of urban-territorial perspective and architecture and landscape as multi-scalar systems-devices.

Manuel Gausa is full professor in Advanced Urban Planning and Urban Design (DAD-Department of Architecture and Design) and coordinator of ADD-UNIGE, Doctorate School in Architecture and Design at the University of Genoa. He is Co-founder and Dean of IAAC-Institut of Advanced Architecture of Catalunya, Barcelona (2012-2015), Director of the journal Quaderns d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme (1991-2000) and co-founder of the Actar group. He is also scientific coordinator of GicLab research group at dAD, UniGe. His research focus on the themes of urban-territorial perspective and architecture and landscape as multi-scalar systems-devices.

Giorgia Tucci is Assistant Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Department of Architecture and Design (dAD), University of Genoa. Her research has mainly focused on the study of coastal agricultural cities in the Mediterranean, on the relationship in the provision of ecosystem services between coast and hinterland, on indicators identifying the character of territorial innovation, and on new cycles of food waste reuse, from biomaterials to bioproducts. She has been a guest lecturer at the Universidad de Málaga, UMA-eAM' (2017), Leibniz Universität Hannover, LUH (2019) and the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, IAAC. (2020). Since 2016 she has been the coordinator of the European project activities and management of the GicLab research group.