BIRDSEED aids urban birds in gradual adaption to climate-based restructured plants, by producing seed-mixed food for them to consume and disperse, whose form and content adjust, to ensure optimal adaptation. It enhances urban ecosystems and explores the potential of interspecies communication.
perspective: Interspecies Communication Design
This research-led project explores interspecies communication for a better ecosystem. Historically, humans and animals have mutually benefited, as seen with Ethiopian hyenas feeding on kitchen waste and honeyguides leading humans to honey. In cities, can we communicate and collaborate for better shared habitats?
context: Climate-Adaptive Planting
Climate change and urbanization are causing species' life events, like breeding, to fall out of sync with climate shifts, leading to their resource shortages. Restructuring urban plant species towards climate-adaptive planting, as seen in projects like âWhich Plant Whereâ, is essential for future urban ecosystems, but one challenge is: How to have seed-dispersing animals adapt to new plants?
This design demonstrates an interspecies approach through communicating with the main urban seed-dispersing animal, like birds, for their adaption to new plants, providing a cushion in the transition, and promoting coevolution among urban species.
