PAPER IDEA
Background
All things must die but with human activities we see it as the end of something but if you think about it it is the death of this activities as they might breakdown or new life comes out of it. with these changes we see how life and death is not just for living organisms but a bigger thing that affects everything within the planet. We are all connected. Nature has the ability to take over any thing that it wants to. a place where old factories and empty buildings are sometimes they fall apart and plants start growing in them or nature finds a way of taking over. tiny creature like insects and bacteria also might end up within the ruins. the ruins sometimes might be a pollutant within the environment as not all man made things are environmentally friendly as some may react with different elements in negative ways and that will make it hard for vegetations and tiny organisms to survive.
Main Focus
I would like to explore how nature has "haunted" these places differently. I would like to focus on the human-made activities that have deteriorated and have been taken over by natural elements. I would like to explore the experience of the non-living things in its cycle of birth when it is considered relevant and useful to humans and its death when it is abandoned and neglected left to rot away and decay. But because of the material used it poses a risk to the environment as some materials may never decay or takes a long time to decay. I would like to understand the consequences of the ruins left behind and the ability of nature to regenerate.
How does nature reclaim abandoned human spaces and what environmental challenges arise from the remnants of industrial decay?
Tools and Methods
I will use iNaturalist to identify different species of plants and organisms that might be living in the abandoned areas and to see how the landscape has changed over time if I am able to use google earth to observe the changes. To document I would like to take photos of the ruins
References
Mildeberg, Saraa, 2024 A Post Industrial Adventure Land