urban wetlands
urban wetlands investigates the dense network of relationships between urban infrastructural grids and the spontaneous development of ecosystems within them. The focus of the research is set on the particular typology of urban Wetland. Wet-lands being the liminal spaces (or ecotones) where two ecosystems meet and blur into one another, creating a particularly rich field of interactions between different forms of life. But urban wetlands do so in an already complex context: an urban one.
The result of this research is a 5-channels video installation and a 300x120cm axonometric section, as an attempt to display the complexity of these relations, their simultaneity and the sometimes brutal conflicts resulting from a neo-capitalist, profit oriented urban development and the succession of ecosystems.
This drawing depicts a fictional infrastructural wetland composed of spatial fragments from existing wetlands across Europe. Emerging spontaneously at the margins of the infrastructural network and shaped by the dynamics of urban development, this ecosystem carries many intertwined stories. The drawing can also be read as a map of the video installation wild infrastructures, where viewers follow five human and non-human protagonists as they navigate their daily interactions with this complex environment.
2022, field research
axonometric section, digital print on construction site banner, 300x120cm.
axonometric section, digital print on construction site banner, 300x120cm.