Animal Aided Design

ANIMAL AIDED DESIGN

The urban fox is one of the most decisive and controversial animals in the United Kingdom with many people either despising them or loving them. With the increase of urban foxes in major cities there is an interesting stigma about them. Even though they are the most adaptable animals living in both urban and natural spaces, humans still haven’t blended with their way of living which can cause many stereotypes against them. Our process is bringing the un-comfortability of unwanted animals in this case “THE FOX” putting them as the focus which then helps people to accept them and break down the stereotypes. Shifting the public’s perception of unwanted animals and slowly incorporate spaces within urban spaces, we can possibly get one step closer to solving the climate crisis.

Our main design methodology we used is “Animal Aided Design”. This is a design process to create a space for a specific species based on their needs, threats and way of living. Through this process we wanted to explore the possibility of how we could push biodiversity into urban areas of Stockport.

This design research has been a theoretical and practical approach on exploring this concept from a wide scale to a smaller scale.