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Bug Hotels:A pedagogical act of Social
design
Conceptual Map
Productive or generative urbanism?
ie: urban agriculture(s)
or ecological infrastructure ie: ecosystem services
and Social design or design activism
ie: show and tell-Pecha Kucha
First read about them
in a San Francisco
Gate article from
November 7, 2010
for attracting insects to your garden by providing nesting and hibernation sitesAs child learning activity
http://progressiveearlychildhoodeducation.blogspot.com/2010/01/bug-hotel.html
Or encouraged by serious adult "green" + gardener organizations like
a real estate company British Land + the City of London
Urban Agriculture as productive cultivationBecause of such resurgent interest bee-keping in NYC legalized as of March 2010
productive vs generative?
Green infrastructure(s) Scaled large + small
inter-agency Sweetwater Branch / Paynes Prairie Sheetflow Restoration
Residential homes central part of novel ecosystems and homeowners can take some positive action on their own in the near-term. She made a pitch to homeowners: shrink lawns, remove non-native plants in favor of native ones, and leave leaf litter, which is habitat for bugs. These steps are actually crucial because lawns now make up more habitat in the U.S. than native land.
Marilyn Jordan, Senior Conservation Scientist, The Nature Conservancy at a conference organized by the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER). http://dirt.asla.org/2011/04/06/the-rise-of-novel-ecosystems/
2 of first 3 examples used on Wikipedia refer to pollination by bumblebees and detritivores ability to process waste
Urban gardening as not just act of productivity but also....
a social, communal, political act of generation creating new ecologies of knowledge-sharing-togetherness
Social Design:
architecture (AFH), Industrial Design
(IDEO,org) or even Google.org
knowledge transfer as generative (social)
design
Went to Re-User Building Products Inc
So what do we end up with?
Easy, DIY, ecological infrastructure....
Recycles, construction waste. Distributed, small scale
Educational science experiment...
So now you can make your own, make it better and pass it on....
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