About Project
Blue Garden envisions the future of urban regeneration by reconnecting humans and non-human beings, restoring marine ecosystems, and creating infrastructure built from waste. Custom-made concrete tiles upcycled from discarded seashells form habitats that support seaweed growth and marine biodiversity. As a low-cost, low-impact circular material system, they also hold potential for broader application.
This installation employs a modular structure to reimagine urban coastlines as spaces of interspecies coexistence, interacting with existing infrastructure to bring people into contact with life forms they rarely encounter. In doing so, it revives a sense of awe and care forgotten in cities, sketching a future where humans, nature, and the planet thrive together.
Blue Garden embodies both poetic sensibility and urgency in responding to the climate crisis. By combining local waste recycling, computer-based design, and production methods attuned to tidal rhythms, it restores relationships between built environments and natural systems, while promoting biodiversity conservation and circular economy practices.
Rather than forcing new ecosystems, it creates the conditions for existing ones to flourish, offering global applicability. It softens the boundaries of urban coastlines, blurring the line between artificial and natural. Through exhibitions and installations, it spreads the value of design that accounts for waste, biodiversity, and non-human life, offering experiences that encourage observation and care. Seaweed is reframed as a symbol of ecological vitality, planting seeds for behaviors and values that center sustainability across design and society at large.