What is Urban Wilderness and how do you envision it? : concrete, steel, glass grows everyday all around us; they seem to be a type of human-generated vegetation in an urban landscape? I personally can’t imagine what urban wilderness is supposed to mean, some kind of brain-fuck juxtaposition? Am I a nincompoop, probably, but this is an esoteric notion that seems too forced to me (sorry!). Nature, healthy ecosystems, with mosses, lichens, bugs, birds, animals, etc, need separation from the meddling efforts of human beings, the type of thing not possible in an urban setting because of the dense concentration of humans. Its nice to see plants in the city, but a proper “wilderness” has no place in the city as far as I am concerned.
What type of interventions would love to see to help shape Urban Wilderness? We’re interested in both the practical and the fantastically impractical.: I dunno, move to Detroit and help people reclaim that wasteland as a starter?
How would you practically teach and perform such an intervention? (and Would you be interested in leading it?): Public gardens as primary and secondary school projects?
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gothenburg, sweden
What is Urban Wilderness and how do you envision it? : concrete, steel, glass grows everyday all around us; they seem to be a type of human-generated vegetation in an urban landscape? I personally can’t imagine what urban wilderness is supposed to mean, some kind of brain-fuck juxtaposition? Am I a nincompoop, probably, but this is an esoteric notion that seems too forced to me (sorry!). Nature, healthy ecosystems, with mosses, lichens, bugs, birds, animals, etc, need separation from the meddling efforts of human beings, the type of thing not possible in an urban setting because of the dense concentration of humans. Its nice to see plants in the city, but a proper “wilderness” has no place in the city as far as I am concerned.
What type of interventions would love to see to help shape Urban Wilderness? We’re interested in both the practical and the fantastically impractical.: I dunno, move to Detroit and help people reclaim that wasteland as a starter?
How would you practically teach and perform such an intervention? (and Would you be interested in leading it?): Public gardens as primary and secondary school projects?
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