Bioregional Curriculum
The current polycrisis requires human care. This project aims to engage students and educational institutions to connect with their bioregion as a step towards local regenerative care.
Every year, Greifensee in Zurich, experiences harmful algae blooms. Cyanobacteria grow in such large quantities that they cover the lake's surface, depleting oxygen and blocking sunlight, which leads to the death of other species.
Each week, I collect a water sample from the shore of Greifensee, including the cyanobacteria, which I then process into simple bioplastics, in order to visually capture the lake's changing condition. This process builds the foundation for a series of workshops that will be hosted during the bloom. Here, students design and build a series of tools, crafted from on-site material, eg. reed and wood, that allow skimming the algae blooms. The algae is then further processed into dyes, composites, plastics, fertiliser and more. These sessions exemplify a bioregional design education.
Student
Caja Peters
Mentors
Prof. Dr. Karmen Franinović
Antoine Bertin
Luke Franzke
Dr. Lyndon Alex Jordan
