Birds, Buildings & Community
Workshopping/ Social Impact

Engagement with wildlife and the reclamation of the local environment is at the core of this project. Through the use of homemade bird boxes and a versatile hanging technique the goal was for urban residents to be able to create value for the community and wildlife population even if the environment seems unapproachable and hostile to nature.

Through multiple workshop events around South London and with the help of Global Generation and their Young Generators at the Printworks, we created a series of bird boxes that have then been hung up using the techniques of arborists and climbers in places normally reserved for only human use. Creating a more organic nesting spots of the avian population in the area, starting with the Black Redstart, the vision of the project is through making the user can better understand the complex nature of the wildlife that surrounds us and create awareness that constant building development is reducing the birdlife in our urban centres.

A custom bracket and set of risograph instructions were developed along side to aid the process, further development of the project will bring in an online portal to allow locals to upload their bird boxes to the web creating a database of sanctuary spots.

If you are interested in joining the project and running a workshop in your local community, feel free to contact me by email.