International Institute of Social Studies

Find out more about this Academic Team dealing with issues around societal challenges around water, agriculture and food.

How do ordinary people caught up in situations where water-bodies and border imaginaries are fiercely contested, make sense of their environment and exert agency to navigate and reimagine alternatives at the margins of securitized borders and accelerated environmental change?

Investigating how concrete Urban Agriculture (UA) initiatives contribute to resilience looking at initiatives such as garden associations, rooftop gardens and closed-loop agricultural production in urban areas.

(Re)designing products, services and systems at substantially lower costs and with a longer lifespan while there is no loss of functionality.