Wilding Practices Through Design: Playful Encounters for Reframing Control in Multispecies Cohabitation

Urban Farm DB summary

This article explores how design interventions can reintroduce elements of 'wildness' into urban environments to foster multispecies interaction. Using prototypes as habitat elements for newts in a Stockholm allotment garden, the study found these interventions provoked human curiosity, connected to gardening traditions, and increased multispecies activity. The authors argue that design should prioritize attunement, ambiguity, and divergence to support new forms of cohabitation in urban life.