Recently, researchers highlighted how diseases and inequalities built by the contemporary food system
express and spatialise themselves differently worldwide, prioritising extreme conditions while shedding
light on their material expression, territorial distribution, and urban planning responsibilities in drawing
these geographies. This contribution aims to underline forms of food poverty in contexts where the
phenomenon is turning again into a structural issue, even though less extreme. Italian contexts well
represent this condition (the case study of Trieste, in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, will be considered
in this contribution), where recent global crises are indeed increasing the number of people in poverty,
considered in its multifaceted dimensions. In this context, the emergence of downscaling microstrategies
and practices represents a potential prime mover towards more structured welfare strategies
and politics. On the other hand, micro-strategies and practices could be upscaled through
interconnections among foodspaces and between these and the city. Three case studies are thus
analysed to underline foodspaces’ potential in generating welfare networks. In these examples,
residential and domestic spaces are reconfigured in strict relation to urban spaces, designing urban
infrastructures for collective care. Considering these premises, the main objective of this contribution is
to unveil foodspaces potential as potential devices towards the welfare re-territorialisation.
