How can a gender perspective be integrated into a community food forest project? In this Radio Zokoto interview, Claudia Pennese introduces RB3’s contribution to gender mainstreaming within the European FOOD FOREST initiative.
Her role focuses on the structural integration of a gender perspective across the project, making equality part of its approach from the outset.
Claudia Pennese holds a doctorate in architecture and is an equality officer. She directs RB3 Innovación Urbana Integrada and teaches feminist methodologies for urban transformation within the University of the Basque Country’s Master’s programme in Gender Equality and Equality Officers.
Her work brings together collaborative governance, co-creation and urban feminism, connecting research with practical approaches to social and urban transformation.
RB3 was founded in 2014 as a spin-off from the University of the Basque Country’s Quality of Life in Architecture research group, CAVIAR, following its recognition through the 12th Manuel Laborde Award.
The organisation develops projects and consultancy services in integrated urban regeneration, combining academic knowledge with collaborative governance, open innovation and a gender perspective.
FOOD FOREST is a European initiative creating and testing Community Food Forests as living spaces for regenerative food production, ecological restoration, education and social innovation.Through pilot sites in Artajona and Tallinn, partners from across Europe work with local communities to develop knowledge and models that can be replicated and scaled.
Connecting Community Food Forests, projects and practitioners across Europe.
welcomes collaboration with institutions, researchers, practitioners, communities and organisations working on regenerative landscapes, food systems and community-led innovation.
Rotary Forests supports FOOD FOREST as a Strategic Benefactor, contributing economic, technical, creative and infrastructure resources to the project and its digital platform.
