Wunschgarten – Wild Urban Offshoots
As cities creep further into wild landscapes, the wild moves into cities. Urban habitats are places where plants and animals take up residence alongside people. Too often though, space for … Continue reading
Urban Weeds Diary
The site survey that began in the Gallery of Weeds project at the Gleisdreieck grew into a weekend passion and hobby that slightly resembles the romanticized botanical identification and collection … Continue reading
Foodscape Mapping
What can we learn about our immediate environment from studying the food that is advertised, bought, sold, found or discarded? Traces of food reveal clues to social, economic and cultural … Continue reading
Wishgarden – Flooded Treasure
The love affair between the city and its watershed is an eternal relationship of loss and gain. Days before I began the short residency at the MOTA Museum of Transitory … Continue reading
Rubble Mapping
A unique aspect of German soil protection policy is the protection of soil on account of its archival function. After World War II over 75 million cubic meters of rubble … Continue reading
Micro Turf
Examples of true wilderness are nearly non-existent. The only way to preserve what is left of the natural world is for people and nature to co-exist in a mutually sustained … Continue reading
Personal Dispersal Mechanisms
Natural dispersal mechanisms of plant species are fantastically diverse. Some seeds like the acorn simply drop and roll, making the mighty oak completely dependent on gravity. Other families, such as … Continue reading
Street Tree Diaries
What started out as a photographic database quickly became a seasonal diary of six special street trees. The long and repeated gaze through the viewfinder allowed me to come to know … Continue reading
Preferential Flow
The concept that best describes my residency at Taliesin-West is Preferential Flow, a term borrowed from the field of environmental soil physics which describes the flow of water along “preferred” … Continue reading
Wriezener Freiraum Labor – Freifunkhain
The design for a public WiFi sculpture in a community park in Friedrichshain was planned by myself, Ulf Kypke, Hardy Buhl with help from Susanne Mühlbauer and partially financed by … Continue reading
Gallery of Weeds
The informal use of Berlin’s Anhalter Bahnhof since the opening of the Berlin Wall constituted a unique example of wild urban green space appropriation – an inner-city oasis for dog … Continue reading
Fertile Ground
The ongoing project Fertile Ground is inspired by the science of invasive ecology, the study of the entry, establishment, distribution, and environmental impact of species translocated from one region or continent … Continue reading
Plant your message here
Plant your message here consisted of a series of interviews and workshops with local high school students in St.Lo, France culminating in a collective planting day on the public greens … Continue reading
