Peri-Urban Collage: Agroforestry in the Metropolitan area of Helsinki

The Studio “Peri-urban landscapes: The Productive Collage” explored the productive dimension of the landscape with a special focus in production processes and their formal, economic, and social implications. During the Studio, we an-alyzed why and how different actors make their decisions in the landscape and about the landscape, and how their ac-tivities, both independently and jointly, can contribute to create a more sustainable, livable, and “productive” landscape.

The Studio was developed in the peri-urban fringe of the Metropolitan Area of Helsinki, which is a particularly complex and dynamic system of interests which explain the configuration of the landscape collage. In the presented project, my work focused on the forestry and agricultural sectors in peri-urban Helsinki. After a multiscale analysis, the project considered different speculative scenarios and potential transitions for these two economic activities and their associated spaces. The result was a more hybrid landscape collage highly informed by the new ways of living, new values, and new models of production-consumption.