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WILD FUTURES: Living With pollinators
Status
Fabricated research prototype
Brief
Shared urban habitat for people, plants and pollinators
Enquiries
Project type
Green Infrastructure: Strengthening Urban Pollinator Networks
Date
July, 2023
Location
Sydney, NSW
Video Link
Team
Principal: Rafael Luna
Scientist: Dr. Yvonne Davila
Structure: Vistek Structural Engineers
Fabrication: Rui Hang Yong
Animated Renderings: Harp Collective
Construction:
-Belen Perdiguer Torralba
-Helen Hirmiz
-Ly Nguyen
Sponsors:
Urban Bee Lab Foundation
Sika Australia
CHH Wood Products Australia
Crommelin
UTS/ AFRL
Featured (Web)
Featured
-SXSW Industry Breakfast 2024
-Australian Botanical Gardens - Science Week 2024
-Belgium Embassy, Swiss Pavilion for .beFair annual Bee Day event.
Publication
A place where people and pollinators can share the city. Wild Futures brings flowering plants and habitat into an inhabitable structure, making urban ecology part of everyday experience.
The fabricated research prototype explores how a small intervention can support planting and pollinator habitat within dense urban environments. It brings design, ecology, structural engineering and fabrication together; the project team and construction record are listed alongside.
The work has been presented in public and cultural settings and featured in Designboom and Inflection. Its ecological purpose is an ongoing research question, rather than a claim of a measured increase in pollinator populations.
For campuses, cultural venues and shared landscapes, the project provides a starting point for discussing a site-specific ecological installation. Tell us about your site through the enquiry link.
