Design Process
Finished moss wall
Re-wilding project
Re-Wilding is a project introducing how Regenerative strategies can help repair the ecological damage human systems have inflicted on our eco-system through forming a co-creative relationship with nature. Using a specific example of a root problem, such as the population of wildflowers and butterfly species diminishing in the UK, based on rising temperatures no longer providing habitable conditions for wildflowers in the south of the UK, forcing plant species to migrate to cooler regions in the north. The outcome became an installation consisting of a material tapestry and nature wall, which combined textiles with organic materials, to educate the severity of the pressure human systems are impacting our eco-system, and suggests how regenerative urban design materials could have the potential to re-wild our damaged eco-system and re-introduce wildflower and butterfly species currently under threat.
To educate the link between the loss in wildflowers impacting butterfly species, I attach hand made origami butterflies to sit on both the material tapestry and nature wall, giving an element of continuity between the installation pieces. The material tapestry hosts butterflies made using recycled paper, as a homage to recycling being an ideology rooted within Sustainability, whereas the nature wall hosts butterfly’s made using plant seed paper. Plant seed paper demonstrates an application of regenerative design, as after being used for its initial purpose, the material can go beyond by being planted into the ground for the seeds to germinate and begin re-wilding our eco-system.
My audience interacting with my project
Audience re-wilding
Accompanying the installation is a handout, that not only explains information displayed within the Material tapestry and Nature wall, but also instructs my audience how they can interact with the project further, by detaching the individual origami plant seed paper butterfly attached to the handout, as an individual way to begin re-wilding and repairing the root ecological issues with our ecosystem.
Image credit: Photographer- Abigail Laurel Morton. Model- Em Brooks.
