BIRDSEED aids future 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. This design explores the potential of interspecies communication.
perspective: Interspecies Communication Design
Interspecies communication has a historical evidence of eco-significance, as seen with Ethiopian hyenas feeding on kitchen waste and honeyguides leading humans to honey. It’s an emerging and promising perspective on sustainable design.
context: Climate-Adaptive Planting
Climate change and urbanization are causing species' life events, like breeding, to fall out of sync with climate shifts. For the next century, restructuring urban plant species towards climate-adaptive planting, as seen in projects like “Which Plant Where”, will be essential for urban ecosystems, but one challenge is:
How to have future seed-dispersing animals, like birds, adapt to new plants?
Could we communicate with them to aid the adaption? 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.
