Rewilding
In June 2020, our multidisciplinary group, Serial Space, presented our biodesign project, Rewilding, as part of the 2020 Bio Design Challenge Finalist. We presented our social critique project during the online symposium.
Rewilding is a large-scale conservation movement. In our urban context in one of the world’s most densely populated cities, Rewilding is about bringing life-supporting native plants with all their genetic diversity back into public spaces. The first in a series of interventions involve personally inviting friends and community residents to come together and grow native plants all around the city.
To rewild our city, we propose activist-oriented interventions to question our existing built environment and landscape design that has been cultivated to destroy biodiversity. We want to give agency back to individuals and communities and encourage civic engagement.
Process
01—Affinity Braninstorming
As a multidisciplinary group, each of our members came from different backgrounds of study and experiences therefore for us to get to better understand each other’s ideas and areas of interest we worked on a mindmap to brainstorm and organize all our ideas.
02—Define Value and Intent
Once we collectively decided on the general direction of our research, we then created a statement of intent and values as guiding principles to refer back to. This step also helped us come up with our group name “Serial Space”.
Values
We value the process as much as the outcome.
Respect the evolution of our ideas.
Prioritize sustainability; we will move our future towards sustainability.
Our process is sustainable, considering our waste.
Statement of Intent
Serial Space would like to explore regeneration, self-sufficiency, indigenous ecologies, and heritage/passing of knowledge with the hope that we might find a link between the past and the future and question existing social systems. Some things we will consider in the process are sustainability, materiality, and overconsumption.
03—Design Sprints
Our working process each week involved the divergent thinking framework to collectively share, generate, combine, and build upon a diversity of ideas.
Individually research and find relevant precedents then share and discuss at one of our weekly meetings.
Decide on which topic area to focus on and together as a whole group or on some weeks individually or in groups of two do rapid rounds of prototyping.
Present sketches and prototypes to the group and present our weekly research, precedents, and prototype to faculty for feedback.
Here are some examples of sketches and ideas that lead to our final prototype Rewilding - a set of guiding principles to be integrated into society for more transparent, ethical, and just applications of biodesign.
Rewilding is a collaborative project by Hadley Feingold, Eriko Hantani, Rosa Ng, and Charisse Serrano. This is the video recording (1:39:31) of our presentation at The 2020 Biodesign Challenge Summit.