Bug Hotels:A pedagogical act of Social

design

Conceptual Map

Productive or generative urbanism?

ie: urban agriculture(s)

or ecological infrastructure ie: ecosystem services

and Social design or design activism

ie: show and tell-Pecha Kucha

First read about them

in a San Francisco

Gate article from

November 7, 2010

for attracting insects to your garden by providing nesting and hibernation sitesAs child learning activity

http://progressiveearlychildhoodeducation.blogspot.com/2010/01/bug-hotel.html

Or encouraged by serious adult "green" + gardener organizations like

a real estate company British Land + the City of London

Urban Agriculture as productive cultivationBecause of such resurgent interest bee-keping in NYC legalized as of March 2010

productive vs generative?

Green infrastructure(s) Scaled large + small

inter-agency Sweetwater Branch / Paynes Prairie Sheetflow Restoration

Residential homes central part of novel ecosystems and homeowners can take some positive action on their own in the near-term. She made a pitch to homeowners: shrink lawns, remove non-native plants in favor of native ones, and leave leaf litter, which is habitat for bugs. These steps are actually crucial because lawns now make up more habitat in the U.S. than native land.

Marilyn Jordan, Senior Conservation Scientist, The Nature Conservancy at a conference organized by the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER). http://dirt.asla.org/2011/04/06/the-rise-of-novel-ecosystems/

2 of first 3 examples used on Wikipedia refer to pollination by bumblebees and detritivores ability to process waste

Urban gardening as not just act of productivity but also....

a social, communal, political act of generation creating new ecologies of knowledge-sharing-togetherness

Social Design:

architecture (AFH), Industrial Design

(IDEO,org) or even Google.org

knowledge transfer as generative (social)

design

Went to Re-User Building Products Inc

So what do we end up with?

Easy, DIY, ecological infrastructure....

Recycles, construction waste. Distributed, small scale

Educational science experiment...

So now you can make your own, make it better and pass it on....