Thalia Marou is a Ph. D. of the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly. She holds a diploma in Forestry (AUTH) and a Msc in Environmental Design of Cities and Buildings (EAP, 2007). Since 2014, she has been teaching at the Department of Architecture, UTh. 

This doctoral thesis focuses on Urban Home Food Garden in the light of the concept of Natureculture. Aim is to highlight the role and dynamics of urban home gardening for everyday life in city neighborhoods. Similtaneously, it traces the footprint of urban home food gardens on urban resilience and their affect on the natureculture network of the city. In this framework, the research makes use of Actor Network Theory (ANT) to map the different entities and relationships that are developed in the urban home food garden, shaping actions in the context of his spatiality .Actions, practices, routines of everyday urban life, seen beyond the strong dualisms of modern thought, are thus highlighted. The divisions of Urban/Rural, Nature/Culture, Human/Non-Human are deconstructed and broaden the research's gaze, making visible collaborations and coexistences. At the same time, food culture practices transferred from the countryside to the city and "activated" through urban home gardening and enriching the toolbox of urban dwellers, become visible.  

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