Interspecies Urban Planning, Reimaging City Infrastructures with Slime Mould

Dillon, Teresa

Abstract

The slime mould Physarum polycephalum optimises its shape in a geometrically constrained space. We explore this property in order to reconsider how we could develop more inclusive, interspecies approaches to urban planning and infrastructure. Working with slime mould we look towards developing, new and urgent forms of dynamic interspecies urban planning.

• Publication Date: Jul 18, 2019
• Deposit Date: Mar 10, 2020
• Pages: 171-188
• Series Title: Series in Biomedical Engineering
• ISBN: 9788770220729
• Keywords: Cities, Slime Mould, Physarum Polycephalum, Interspecies inclusivity, Urban Planning
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5633474
• Publisher URL: https://www.riverpublishers.com/book_details.php?book_id=706