Crossings
Maintenance > Bridge Infrastructure
Wildlife Crossings
There is a version of our world in which we thought through the need for wildlife corridors in conjunction with the needs for crosswalks, traffic lights, crossing guards, and stop signs. In this world, animals have had the opportunity to learn and adapt to the “rules of the road” alongside humans.
THE PROJECT
A Mystery
Presented as a podcast with eBay links for clues
PODCAST TRAILER
Crossings
A fake trailer for a six-episode series that follows a trail of mysterious eBay listings, which might be proof of alternate timelines. The podcast acts as the viewer’s guide and point-of-entry into the artwork.
Supporting content, descriptions, and artwork help to create a sense of “reality” to the work.
Intentions
INTENTIONS
Research
Focusing the research on a specific time period helped me to develop a unique perspective based on the value of wildlife crossings. Wildlife crossings are a wildly popular solution. However, they weren’t developed until the 1960s, despite most driver/pedestrian infrastructure being a public issue as early as the 1920s.
INTENTIONS
Project Goal
The goal of this project is to aid in the provocation of a specific issue, namely how much or little consideration goes into our creation of things.
What if the solution had been developed at the same time as the problem?
INTENTIONS
The Intended Effect
The format is intended to create questions and uncertainty. A lot of the early ideation that I did for this project was around how to design a user-flow for animals. With that in mind, I wanted to create a guide that didn’t feel like a guide, but felt more like discovery.
I also wanted to play with the idea of worlds, ideas, and existences that we intersect with, without being aware of them.
A fake podcast
about
fake listings
with
fake items
a fake world
from
ecosystems
(nature)
highways
(man)
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