Designing for Wilderness in Human Habitats
This talk served as an introduction to ecological landscape design. The speakers shared some tools and insights on documenting existing biodiversity on a piece of land and designing for its succession. They also presented a few design stories from projects where individuals who own private farms that exist in gradient zones between reserve forests and urban spaces can contribute towards conservation and awareness of harmonious coexistence with wildlife. The session ended with a short quiz on fauna, which opened up discussions within the audience.
About the Designer
Himanshu Arteev is an ecological planner and designer who, along with Kiri and Jananee, co-founded Ananas. They are a small team that works on transforming landscapes into habitable spaces for flora, fauna, and people. Along with everything Earth, forests and fauna he is passionate about water. He also loves making quick small sketches to bring ecological designs to reality with a small team of experts.
About the Ecological Designer
Theertha Ravi is an ecological designer at Ananas. She is passionate about regenerative design practices in both architecture and landscaping. She enjoys the process of deeply rooting herself to the context of a site to work with native materials and its vernacular history to build self-sustaining eco-systems