Exercise 5 Space and Ecological Services

For a change, use laptops, smartphones and all other possible tools.

Work in groups of 3 students.

• Don’t forget your favourite idea from the previous ideation exercise (Communication of river/lake ecologies with your ecologies in a jar that you had to invent according to different scales and different material/media)…

• In Toni Areal, compose a list/sketch of all the parameters that regulate and influence an individual space or room.

• what does life in a jar need?

• what does life in a seminar room need?

• Work out regulation loops, positive and negative feedback between the two

• Which services (biological, cultural, individual, metabolic (breath, light, nutrients, etc)) can a space in Toni and an ecology in a jar provide for each other. Also play with the idea of scaling up the ecology in a jar. How big would it need to be to provide specific services?

• Who profits from your scenario and how?

• GO WILD! ….and have fun on the way….!