Research Associates: María Claudia Valverde Rojas, Hanane Behnam
Students: Nikolina Grgurovic, Linnea Herlevi, Fatma Sultan Belli, Dorian Zinder, Lorenzo Bortone, Diego Juarez, Nanis Gado
The gigamap, synthesis map and the DIY recipe were codesigned during the winter semester 2023/24 studio at the University of Stuttgart. They were focusing on an urban intervention that supports biodiversity at the university’s campus. This intervention offers insects, birds and bats habitats and more-than-human edible landscape and serves as a touch point for a blog with DIY recipes and citisen science application ’spot-a-bee‘. The three posters were exhibited at the school’s exhibition to bring the audience to the installation and motivate them to reproduce it. QR codes also serve to inform the public about our events, such as seed bombing and gardening.
The gigamap is overarching the whole codesign process, feedback looping from analogue (invited stakeholders) to digital (codesign amongst students) and developed from the initial minimaps from each students‘ ‚universes‘ on the studio topic related to each other. When synergising the ‚universes‘, the invited stakeholders intervened with their agendas in analogue form. This gets digitalised again with the students‘ synergising into the final gigamap that is realised after the installation. As mentioned, the synthesis map mainly serves for communication, whilst the DIY recipe is a pocket-foldable navigation on how to make part of the installation yourself.
Originally published for the RSD13 Symposium
