This project aims to engage local communities in collective and individual brainstorming practices- becoming rooted, hopeful and speculative in the process- and to create and share stories of imagined futures for species living together in cities. Beginning with a chance to recount and share real encounters and events with interspecies being in our neighbourhoods, the community members appreciate and valorise their existing relationships with bird species. From this place of authentic engagement and relationship with the birds, they are then invited to brainstorm what could be done in order to secure existing urban biodiversity and to welcome new or old types of interspecies thriving in cities. Connected to a future vision of imagined harmony, the participants work backwards to motivate and mobilize relationships of care in the present- how do we create these imagined futures of interspecies relationships?
the stories and images created by the workshop participants will be shared on an online location based platform with cues embedded in the local environment. The workshop content will be combined with 3d animations of the bird species, using augmented reality to appear on screens as if the birds were alive before us.
Spoonful of Dirt 