The city conforms to green zones and urban zones. Green and nature are placed in certain places and buildings are discordant and individual riverbeds. "NEST" intends to recognize the possibility of dwellings, particularly of areas that offer openings to the outdoors ( balconies, gardens), to accommodate systems of interspecies and encounter, of care and sustainability by creating sustainable products that allow for the presence and coexistence of humans and non-humans.
Local
Italy
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Mainly urban
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)
The NEST project aims to create sustainable products that offer the possibility of the encounter and care between humans and nonhumans, both inserted The project sees the creation of modules made of ceramics, a highly sustainable material derived from natural materials, resistant to weathering, and aesthetically valuable.
The modules will be designed to accommodate different species, animals, or plants, to fit into the outdoor environments of houses ( balconies, terraces, etc.). These modules will integrate into the "home" system, creating a multi-species organism and supporting its reproduction. Citizens will be invited to be active and take care of environments other than their own. In addition, through the convolution of GPS systems embedded in the modules, each inhabitant will be able to report the multispecies organism on a map that will highlight the place where human and nonhuman inhabitants coexist. This digital action of inserting each modular system will create an urban map of alternative cohabitations. The vision of the project is to bring people closer to urban nature with horizontal systems that can engage everyone. The project is intended to contribute to the care and support of biodiversity.
community engagement
coexistence of humans and non-humans
environmental sustainability
sustainable products
interspecies collaboration
NEST aims to develop sustainable and ethical systems that are horizontal and support biodiversity and sensitivity to creating multi-species coexistence.
The materials chosen for the modules are among the most sustainable and allow the reuse of waste, representing a circular economy of reuse, meeting the goal of ethicality and sustainability.
Supporting the vision of a smart city that bases its livelihood and choices on positive awareness of the interaction of diversity: This can be done through the creation of sustainable systems that support biodiversity and care, starting right from the home.
Increase the sense of belonging, care, and contact with nature: through multi-species encounters and modules that implement systems of coexistence
Using digital as a support for design and setting ethical goals: through the reporting of multispecies organisms implemented by the modules produced.
NEST's modular products are created through the use of materials with aesthetic value such as ceramics. The goal is to combine functionality and aesthetics, resulting in products that are accessible to everyone. The modules are designed to have a simple line that can be adapted to any situation, reminiscent of modular constructions, combining functionality with careful research on hues and materials. The hues that cover the ceramics constitute further research that is intended to be produced by moving closer and closer to a green system, with natural hues that correspond to the objectives of the project
Design objects are often particularly expensive and tied to specific environments. Product design can be innovative to bring about change in thinking and increase inclusion. Therefore, the project aims to bring as many people as possible closer to ethical action through design made accessible, both in terms of materials and structure, all to increase the sense of responsibility and belonging to a multispecies organism. Lowering the cost of the product is possible because of its modular and linear structure, which allows it to be easily reproduced. The goal is to make a design product accessible to everyone, combining participatory sensitivity to the environment and aesthetic sense. Indeed, the citizen can approach design and obtain a product that is easy to use and understand, thus offering him or her the opportunity to increase his or her sense of responsibility toward the ecosystem and the whole community in an agile way, activating an ethical and sustainable circularity.
Citizens will be involved by increasing their sense of ownership and responsibility for their environment, taking care of their host and habitat. Residents will be made aware of the wildlife around them, increasing their curiosity and sensitivity. A direct pedagogical relationship with their environment, involving them in an active relationship. This will foster a multi-species habitat, moving the community away from anthropocentric individualism.
Nest intends to involve territorial and local associations, creating a prototype network of knowledge exchange that can be replicated nationwide. Each place where the product can be replicated can involve associations that are locally active in safeguarding native biodiversity. This reflects the project's desire to be scalable and replicable, respecting all internal diversity of each urban ecosystem.
Nest is an embryonic project that intends to involve various stakeholders. Associations active in the area in the defense of urban biodiversity will be involved to support the project, offering valid and feasible information to the citizen about their ecosystem, and fostering research and knowledge. Engineers will also be involved to provide knowledge exchange by inserting a GPS locator into the various prototypes to put the various ecosystems into a spatial map. The citizen, in this way, will be able to place the multi-species organism on an alternative map, which will take into account not only urban structures but also the human and non-human existences that interact there.
The project is based on rethinking the object for ethical, social, and sustainable action by returning craftsmanship to the plus social value of care, tradition and study of the material. Ceramics represent an important material for sustainable circularity, which can be innovative when applied to contemporary uses and new social needs. The human and non-human relationship for the project is a priority and starting from one's own home is the particularity to be able to change the centralizing human thinking. The home can accommodate multi-species encounters, as it already invisibly does, and the human can contribute his or her own sense of aesthetics, care, and concern for the surroundings. The project seeks to increase this sense of "being in the world".
Nest is designed as a replicable module for both materials and design. The goal of the project is precisely its replicability, supported by various local actors giving it a replicable form, but always subject to the place that hosts its product. Associations active in the defense of local biodiversity will always be approached in the sustainability of the modular product information. This methodology allows the ethicality of the product inserted in different places from each other.
Sustaining biodiversity and product circularity are the primary local goals. Local enterprise and modular product simplicity is applicable to any context, summing up in a network of small changes from below. Multiple points of a growing network, bringing richness to research. This can bring global change.
