Sijin Cheng

Birds can only live in the corners of buildings, and will be expelled for polluting or damaging buildings; The human leftover is piled up in remote corners of cities, and it stinks, but it is still deliberately ignored... These landscapes appear in trivial daily life, and we often forget to think about the causes of these scenes when we get used to it: the continuous expansion of buildings, the massive production of waste, etc., are all created or dominated by human beings. These troubles that we hate are all cumbersome issues that civilization has to deal with. Is it equitable to treat these urban lives derivative with such negative emotions? Is it because of our inherent bias that the situation keeps a vicious circle? One-sided information will lead to bias. If these subnature1 elements are discussed in a wider social and ecological system, will we still insist on the inherent bias?

Under the background of a multi-species flourishing world as the final target, this project takes birds, one of the most important cooperators of human beings, as the lens, and the string figures game as the basic model of methodology. Through extensive and in-depth research on subnatures, such as waste, pigeons, polluted soil, and crowds, which have a wide impact on Glasgow, and trying to find their value and relevance in order to coexist with them, and then transform them into sustainable landscapes, so as to weaken bias and create a more equitable landscape.