C1 – Coordination & Transformation
Transparency, Trust, Exchange
Subproject C-1 coordinates the overall project, supports interdisciplinary collaboration, and ensures systematic knowledge exchange between research, practice, and the public. In addition, it examines how innovative urban food systems, such as the controlled-environment agriculture (CEA) approach, are perceived by society and under what conditions trust, legitimacy, and acceptance arise.
A central focus is the further development of the Social License to Operate (SLO) approach, which analyzes the relationships between producers, consumers, and local communities and thus helps to classify the regulatory, communicative, and social risks of new technologies. Based on the analytical framework developed in Phase I, international case studies – including in the USA, Germany, and another foreign location – will be conducted to compare different perceptions and expectations.
The findings will be incorporated into a transdisciplinary concept for community engagement, which will be tested in practice and will help to increase transparency and strengthen participation. By applying the concept, methods and practices will be developed to build communities of practice in the vicinity of CEA plants and to promote credibility, legitimacy, and trust in CUBES and CEA in general.
Management and coordination are lead by the Division Urban Ecophysiology of Plants of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Ulrichs is head of the consortium and contact person for all members of CUBES Circle. He also is responsible for the integration of the scientific committee into the project. He communicates with PtJ and the BMBF. Christian is also a member of the Future Agricultural Systems Coordinating Group. He is happy to answer press inquiries..
Contact: christian.ulrichs(at)hu-berlin.de
Dr. Dieter Simon is the new coordinator in the project CUBES Circle.
Before that, he was project manager at Gesellschaft für soziale Unternehmensberatung mbH.
Contact: dieter.simon.1(at)hu-berlin.de
Prof. Dr. Peter Feindt is Professor of Agricultural and Food Policy at the Albrecht Daniel Thaer Institute for Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research addresses a broad range of questions in agricultural and food policy, in particular links to environmental policy, sustainability transitions, the bio-economy and the resilience of bio-based production systems. Related interests include environmental and technology conflicts; public participation and conflict management; political communication and cooperative governance; strategic communication, policy discourse and narratives; and inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration. Peter is co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, member of the board of the German Agricultural Research Alliance (DAFA) and chair of the Scientific Advisory Council for Biodiversity and Genetic Resources at the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
In CUBES Circle, Peter leads the tasks on innovation systems and (with Linda Onnasch) on the development of guidelines for the design, the governance framework and communication of CUBES Circle applications.
Contact: peter.feindt(at)hu-berlin.de
