Pull, Pluck, Play: Productive Social Landscape
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Tags
Public space, Urban Design, Landscape design, productive landscapes, park design, parkscapes, waterurbanism, foodurbanism
Author: Janki J Hirani
Located within the dense neighborhood fabric of Wadaj in Ahmedabad, the project introduces small productive landscape interventions within an older TP housing precinct shaped by compact residential edges and limited public open space. The proposal reimagines an EWS housing edge and a health center traffic island as interconnected productive commons where food, shade, ecology, and social life become embedded within everyday urban experience. At the housing site, a continuous green spine transforms movement corridors into spaces for gathering, harvesting, play, and everyday use. Around the health center, medicinal and herbal planting creates shaded pockets for pause and care. Extending beyond these nodes, streets become productive ecological layers lined with native fruiting species such as Jamun, Tamarind, and Moringa, supporting seasonal food access, cooling, and walkability. Rather than separating food systems from the city, the project embeds productive ecologies directly within housing edges, streets, and shared public spaces.