Lukasz Lysakowski
Agents of Seed Dispersal
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The Agents project is designed to address the rapid degradation of the Earth's environment. The project focuses on reversing the unrelenting spread of asphalt and its suffocation of the natural environment. Agents proposes that the built environment is an ecosystem not an artificial territory disconnected from Earth and Nature. Conceptualizing the metropolis as an ecosystem requires its occupants to address it as a natural system with environmental thought and action.
The Agents of Seed Dispersal project consists of two separate but corresponding actions.
Animal - Zoochary propagation: the dispersal of seeds by animals.
The first action is an intervention in the urban space of post-industrial asphalt lots in which the author, as the agent of intervention, bores through their surface in order to reach the underlying earth. The penetration is intended to allow the asphyxiated earth below the barren surface to breath, and to be an opening for plant life to take root. The revived plant life in return slowly mends the underlying stifled soil and over time deterritorializes the barren asphalt by reterritorializing into a space of (green) growth.
Wind - Anemonochory propagation: the dispersal of seeds by wind.
The second action is the deployment of seed dispersing ballons over the built environment. The ballons allow seeds to be diseminated across a wide range and into areas which are restricted to public access. The released seeds embed themselves into the cracks and gaps of the urban environment in order to take root and redefine the urban environment.