Pigeon Post
Yuyao Lin
Experience design for pigeons.
09/2021




How can urban design reframe human relations with pest species?


The project is an 'experience design for pigeons'. There are nearly 400 million pigeons living in cities around the world and their droppings are causing problems for both the pigeons themselves and humans, such as deformed legs and erosion of old buildings.

By observing the habits of pigeons and examining their range in the field, combined with knowledge of plants and ecology, I conceived an interactive system of "urban pigeon posts" for the use of pigeons. The pigeon's droppings will be used for planting, thus creating a virtuous cycle that will improve the quality of life of the pigeon and the human being, and will lead to a win-win situation and change the prejudice of humans towards pigeons and their droppings.








Project Documentation

                                                                  


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Species labeled as “pests” reveal the limits of urban human exceptionalism. Coexistence demands a rethinking of what is considered valuable, livable, or legitimate in shared spaces. Urban design should not merely manage unwanted species but open spaces for renegotiating multispecies urban citizenship—including with those we are culturally conditioned to reject.