The Earth Day activity is fun and joyful. We brought a tricycle, full of props and tools to explore and play with the nature in the neighborhood. The activity aims to spontaneously invite people to discover Earth Day celebration and to express their own way to participate. The activity lasted for the whole day but without fixed schedule: we wanted to support prompt interaction and spontaneous encounter, using an open plug-in concept to support everyone to express their own sharing.

Some of the plays we engaged during the day.

1. My Ideal Earth Day

“How would you like to enjoy your ideal Earth Day?” We use this open question as a start to make residents and neighbours think about the celebration and offering the possibility to share ideas through sticky notes and sketching. This board aims to inspire people to think about nature reconnection in a variety of ways.

2. Mapping Wild Plants

Besides the beautiful grass lawn at the centre of the CDC, Xinhua may seem like a place with not too much green, but it is definitely not the case! There are many small and hidden areas where plants are growing lavishly, they are just a bit hidden. Most of these plants are wild and spontaneous, some belongs to the traditional medecine. We hope to continue the mapping and also share all these plants’ identities with the neighbours in future activities.

3.Whatchamacallit

We brought some recycled materials and simple fabrication tools for making whatchamacallit (cool objects with specific functions but without specific names). We love this making process because it helps us to bring real and imaginary tools to expand our perceptions towards nature and allow us to explore the Earth in totally new ways.