Design Process
Re-Wilding Installation
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 visually communicate this transition from Sustainability and towards Regeneration. I used the material tapestry to put into focus our current state of ‘reform’, where we continue to risk losing wildflowers and biodiversity, due to climate change, and positioned next to this was a Nature wall illustrating the ‘transformation’ towards a positive future for our environment, by introducing regenerative strategies, such as nature walls, as future urban design materials that can re-wild our damaged eco-system.
I chose to work by hand for the whole project, to support how slower methods of production are a more ecologically conscious method of design.
Image Credit: Photographer- Abigail Laurel Morton.
nature wall
Take a look at the making of the Nature Walls and its contribution to the installation of my Re-Wilding project.