brief, client and design response. brief.

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than Black people were made for Whites or women for men.”

Alice Walker, Pulitzer prize winning author (Spiegel, 1988)

To create a more than-human landscape strategy in the local government area of Victoria Park, that seeks to solve a problem for a non-human resident at this site. The site’s remnant vegetation area (Jirdarup Bushland Precinct) will be the investigation starting point. One, specific non-human resident of the Victoria Park area will be your client. More-than-human strategies will respond to the current, as well as future, conditions in Victoria Park, taking into account changing climate and social conditions. The design process must comprise 1) analysis, 2) strategy, 3) design development and 4) design communication. client.

The native bee, Rozenapis ignita, is the client selected for this folio. Stages 1 and 2 have focused solely on this species, where as Stages 3 and 4 have broadened the focus to native bees of the Perth area in general.

design response - making a Beeline to the remnants.

To provide improved connectivity for native bees between three fragmented remnant banksia woodlands located in the Town of Victoria Park and adjacent City of South Perth. This will support important foraging and reproductive floristic requirements for native bees, while simultaneously ensuring pollination services critical to the survival of the woodland flora. These pollination corridors provide increased cross-pollination, which strengthens the remnant’s genetic diversity, thereby improving resilience. As native bees have a flight range limited to 1km (500m return radius) bee “lines” that provide their specific floristic and nesting requirements at least every 500m between the remnant patches are proposed. Ideally, the key pitstops located at the 500m markers would be human / bee interactive living labs and bee friendly gardens. Temporally, the design would utilise interim infrastructure (bee towers or “motels”) that double as wayfinding guides until mature trees can naturally provide these nesting habitats. The biodiversity positive interventions proposed would require collaboration between both LGAs, key state government agencies whose land access is required and local residents

Precedent 1: Love

I was already moved by this love story. A signed limited edition print graces our wall. Rereading this short story was a timely reminder that even inconspicuous, non-charismatic animals can exhibit sentience and beauty and deserve a place in our urban environments.

Source: Tan (2018, 50-53)

Precedent 3: The Luctsingel, Rotterdam.

Precedent

Source: Publik uncertainty / patterns / insights clarity / focus

Source: Ceccon and Zampieri (2016).