Designing participatory urban interventions for biodiversity and ecosystem resilience through the POL AI framework
摘要
The research by design project focuses on developing more-than-human urban environment adaptations. The project employs prototypes built from responsive wood panels that respond to different microclimatic conditions, thus supporting the diversity of species with diverse conditions. The prototypes POL-AI combine insect hotels and pollinator gardens, and AI monitoring systems. In parallel, QR codes lead to Do-it-Yourself (DIY) recipes to construct similar elements, and to a citizen-science mobile application, “Spot-a-Bee”, that informs the AI image recognition database. Therefore, the project becomes generative. The prototypes were developed through gigamapping. The co-design process brought together researchers from various disciplines, urban ecologists, and stakeholders with diverse backgrounds, allowing for rich perspectives and meaningful community engagement. Codesign played a key role in grounding the prototypes both ecologically and socially. The project demonstrates how participatory, more-than-human approaches can foster biodiversity, raise environmental awareness, and create scalable models for urban ecological design.