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Sustainability, collaboration and creativity are at the basis of the changes currently being experienced by our society. Since 2008, Defiant Imagination has been looking at how these concepts are being applied to different areas of our daily life: urbanism, food, the economy, social media, and more.
Its author, Flavie Halais, is a Vancouver-based freelance journalist.-
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Urban agriculture: an interview with Joe Nasr and June Komisar
This is an interview I did a couple of months ago with Joe Nasr, Co-coordinator at MetroAg (Alliance for Urban Agriculture) and June Komisar, Associate Professor at Ryerson University’s Department of Architectural Science. They both curated Carrot City, an exhibition that ran in Toronto last Winter and showed how design, architecture and urban planning can [...]
Gardening class: an audio piece
This is a piece I did on Greening Duluth’s gardening classes in Montreal, as part of my work on urban agriculture. Enjoy!
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Backyard chickens approved in Vancouver
Vancouver just made chickens legal in the city, according to an article published in the Globe and Mail today. This will allow urban residents to keep a coop in their backyard, just like in other north American cities such as Portland, Ore. and Seattle. But this is not good news to certain experts who say [...]
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A visit at one of Toronto’s most innovative greenhouses
Last week I was in Toronto to do some interviews for a project I’m doing on urban agriculture, and my interviewees referred me to a new innovative project called Artscape Wychwood Barns. I had a bit of time so I decided to go check it out.
The project is located in a residential district not very [...]
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Urban chickens: not always a pleasant affair