Life in Ruin → Towards a Continuum of Reciprocal Care for Urban Nature Ecologies → 2025
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Life in Ruin: Towards a Continuum of Care for Urban Nature Ecologies explores the intricate dynamics of how we care for non-human species within urban contexts. This project seeks to challenge the prevailing worldview of anthropocentrism that positions humans as separate from and dominant over nature. Instead, it delves into alternative ontologies, emphasising entanglement, interdependency, and vibrant coexistence.
Exploring derelict spaces created in urbanisation as an embodiment of this flawed worldview, Life in Ruin aims to reshape our perception of, and relationship with, these often-neglected environments. The project proposes notions for an ethics of multispecies care and uses artefacts for provocation to both literally and metaphorically scaffold these ideas as acts of "guerrilla welfare".
Via the speculative 'Urban Trust', a community-led organisation that works to educate and develop ecological understanding in the ‘disused’ yet biodiverse land of the urban landscape, the project proposes novel and open interventions for collectively creating place. It invites engagement, understanding, and dialogue with place, challenging ownership and the ways in which we build and dwell in cities - and how we disrupt or affirm life in the process.
Navigating the urgent crisis of biodiversity loss in these uncertain times, Life in Ruin offers a hopeful perspective. It seeks to uncover and celebrate the resilience of life within the ruins, shifting our focus from a narrative of decline to one of potential and unexpected flourishing within our shared urban landscapes.
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