The City and the Forest is a series of exhibitions and workshops promoting environmental protection and an eco-friendly attitude.The project brings the new generation of Polish designers together and employs a wide scope of skills ranging from product design, architecture and city planning to find creative solutions for nature and urbanity to coexist better.
The aim is to draw attention to animals living in cities, such as birds, insects and mammals. The invited designers from Poland have created nesting boxes for animals. Their selection was based on their own experiences and express their concerns related to changes in the environment.
The booths presented in the exhibition are dedicated to various species of birds such as swifts, that reside on the walls next to the designers’ studios or the hedgehogs living in their neighborhoods. The projects demonstrate a very conscientious approach, using a natural protection system against harmful insects, They also express a fascination with bats, and an interest in insects. Through all of them speaks a desire to reconcile life in the city with a closeness to nature.
KAFTI, together with DINGFLUX studio, designed the shelter for wild pollinators:
“Concrete cities and sleek urban parks do not offer many places of refuge for wild pollinators, although, paradoxically, the lack of pesticides works to their advantage. Creating a place for them does not require specific efforts and supports their important function, which is the pollination of plants. The project of the hotel for insects also allows quite a lot flexibility”.
Designers in this exhibition: Agnieszka Bar, Anna Szuflicka, Anna Łoskiewicz-Zakrzewska, Zofia Strumiłło-Sukiennik, Krzysztof Benke, Tomasz Korzewski / Beza Project, Asia Piaścik / Dingflux, Marta Niemywska-Grynasz, Dawid Grynasz, Małgorzata Ćwiek / Grynasz Studio, Monika Brauntsch / Kafti, Ewa Bochen, Maciej Jelski / Kosmos Project, Agata Kulik-Pomorska, Paweł Pomorski / Malafor, Marcin Pogorzelski / Mapog, Liliana Krzycka i Rafał Pieszko / Menthol Architects.
