Stockholm – Artist Linda Tegg has rewilded a car park outside ArkDes, Sweden's national centre for architecture and design.
The large-scale installation – Infield – comprises more than 60 plant species native to Sweden, and is intended to attract birds and insects to the site over its three-month duration.
‘[Sweden’s national architecture and design] policy aims to make Swedish cities more sustainable and equitable, through better architecture, art and design,’ explains Kieran Long, director of ArkDes. ‘Infield adds to this debate by asking questions about what the public spaces of the future might look like, whether we work with nature instead of against it, making space for non-human species and sharing the city with them.’
As we explore in our Enlightened States macrotrend, urban architecture is evolving to promote wellbeing through intuitive design and sustainable materials, while also encouraging greater synergy with the natural world.
