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OpEd: More scenes like this

Twice a week I slide open the glass door to our outdoor patio and refill a hardware store bird feeder with bird seed. The package for the bird seed says “Attracts up to 2x more Finches” but we never see anything other than mourning doves and the occasional mocking bird. It makes no matter to me, my wife or the cat, especially the cat.
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Rebranding!

After more than 5 years of functioning as Animal Architecture we will be rebranding and reorganizing as a non-profit organization now to be named: The Expanded Environment. This change comes at a critical moment in the organization, within our collective thinking about the impact of Animal Architecture now and in the near future, and within the current climate crises around the globe.
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Urban Apiaries

Increasing interest and activity in urban agriculture is exciting for human urban development and the greening, literally and metaphorically, of our cities. But more often than not animals in almost every capacity are left out of the conversation.
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Animal Planet

A recent series on the New York Times, "explores the strange and diverse ways the human and animal worlds intersect." This first installment looks mainly at the various moral and philosophical conundrums that arrive via live-streaming nature cameras.
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Being and Architecture

Rather than developing a robust theory or practice in architecture based on an inclusive attitude towards biology we have simply continued to reinscribe and strengthen anthropocentric ideas about the separation of “Man and Nature.”
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Interview with Joyce Hwang

Recently, we were able to catch up with Joyce Hwang, the 2012 Animal Architecture award winner and recently selected for an Emerging Voices Award from the architectural league of New York.
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Post Animal Projects

A third category of projects approaches the human/animal divide from a very different source. Post-Animal Alternate Realities seek to change the hearts and minds of human individuals.
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Joyce Hwang’s Urban Ecologies

We are very happy to announce that Joyce Hwang, winner of the 2012 Animal Architecture Awards for her collaborative project Bat Cloud, has just garnered a 2014 Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York.
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Soft Structures

Soft Structures reflect a different philosophy with regard to the human/animal question. Rather than to presume a sense of synthesis, where biological beings cohabit equally, Soft Structure projects present a strategy based on mediated coexistence, often with reduced human impact.
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Beehive Highrise

BeehiveHighrise utilizes a redesigned system which enables access from the sides, with each tray fitting snugly and keeping the box enclosed. This allows the hives to be lined up in rows as well as stacked, forming a wall of hives that could be shared among several beekeepers. One of these walls could hold as many as 90 hives, each of which could pollinate around 240 million flowers daily.
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Urban Transhumance

Urban Transhumance explores urban farming as viable urban renewal option by revisiting Grand Boulevard as a site that circumscribes the historic limits of Detroit.
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Design With Animals

Ned Dodington will be delivering a public talk titled "Design With Animals," in Houston on March 19th at 6:00pm. The talk will be a survey of projects on AnimalArchitecture.org and present emerging trends and patterns within the field of animal inclusive design.
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Patrick Dougherty at Hermann Park

Patrick Dougherty brings his bent-twig sculptures to Houston's Hermann Park. For the next few years local Houstonians and visitors will have the opportunity to walk in and among one of Patrick's flowing, windswept, twiggy bent-branch works of art. We had the chance to walk through last weekend.
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Cart Coop

The Cart Coop is a prototype chicken coop that elevates an abandoned shopping cart to a replicable model for urban food production.
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Animal Paths

A large part of the work on animal architecture is understanding, mapping and visualizing patterns of movement in ourselves and our non-human clients or design-partners. Over the years we have encountered several resources for visualizing animal movement and a few of our favorite (and most useful) ones are listed below.
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Synanthropic Habitats

Synanthropic Habitats propose scenarios where animals and humans live closely together in cross-species cities or abodes - they are the projects that most often come to mind when one thinks of Animal Architecture.
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Nature And Cities Conference

With half the world's population now living in urban regions, the future of cities is arguably the most important social and environmental issue of the twenty-first century. The design and planning of green spaces in cities has been central to urban development since the beginning of civilization.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

The fourth edition of Bracket invites design work and papers that offer contemporary models of spatial design that are conscious of their public intent and actively engaged in socio-political conditions.
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Oceanic Agriculture

Oceanic Agriculture is a marine strategy for rapid deployment of food-aid in times of prolonged civic stress. The design proposes to generate a flotilla of horizontal surfaces that become deployable seafaring farmlands. Oceanic Agriculture pairs the exigencies of organizations such as the World Food Program and the Global Food Crisis Program, with current disposal and mothball strategies for large military, commercial and private maritime vessels.

Board of Directors

Ned Dodington, President Ned Dodington is a licensed architect and designer working to develop new practices for biologically…
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DesignGood Review

The good works of Animal Architecture has recently been recognized by the kind folks at DesignGood. DesignGood is an online community that shares the stories of the people, products and organizations making an impact around the globe through creativity and contribution.
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URBAN HEDGEROW

The Urban Hedgerow is a series of urban-animal friendly installations. The project creates wall mounted vertical forms which can be comprised of collected sticks, industrial components, lumber discards and clippings from parks, yards, and forgotten city bits. The ambition is to create space and allow more of our wild world into the city, and to make people grapple with where they draw the line between wild neighbor and pest.
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