by yakhour5 | Feb 28, 2025 | News
IHBE is thrilled to announce an exciting new study abroad program in Southeast Asia, where students will be studying Building-Integrated Agriculture. This will be an 8-week summer term program, jointly delivered by the University of Oregon School of Architecture and...
by yakhour5 | Feb 28, 2025 | News
Urban agriculture can promote nutritional security, food resilience, reduced distribution embodied impacts, and equitable access to healthy foods for burgeoning urban populations. Yet, the lack of open space, contaminated brownfields and surging land prices all...
by Mark Fretz | Sep 26, 2024 | News
Around 70 enthusiastic design professionals, urban farmers, entrepreneurs, housing developers, government professionals, urban planners, place-makers, and researchers traveled from the UK, Canada and 11 U.S. states last week to attend the first ever Grow (IN)’...
by Mira | Apr 5, 2023 | Awards, Research
Crops on rooftops, walls, and inside buildings? We want to find out what’s possible for growing food in cities, and what barriers are stopping urban agriculture. Dr. Gwynne Mhuireach has been awarded nearly a million dollars from the USDA to provide solutions...
by Mira | Sep 28, 2022 | Research
Imagine a city with crops on every rooftop. This might seem odd at first, but 80% of food will be consumed in cities by 2050, which means city-goers need to become city-growers if we want to have resilience in the wake of food supply chain shortages. During the...
