A4, 12 pages, Black & white printing, Saddle stitched, Softcover, 2024

In collaboration with Architectural Collective Feral Partnerships, FÅGELHUS 2.0 is a flatpack instruction manual for people to build their own Swift Box, this is a part of a larger project undertaken by myself and Lira Valencia titled Public Garden Solutions, (supported by Turf Projects, Croydon). Via a number of strategically placed swift bird boxes that double as public sculptures, the project aims to explore the possibility of a human and non-human coalition in service of local interests. To encourage the nesting of Swifts in Croydon, we have produced a series of Swift Boxes which will be placed within several loved, sentimental and contested buildings under threat of closure, privatisation and the prospective transformation into luxury flats. Given that Swifts are Red List species with a number of legal protections, the purpose of the birdboxes is to irritate, stall and disrupt any future large-scale planning applications by laying the conditions for a web of red tape, delays and negative PR. The birdbox exists in physical form and as a step-by-step manual, which has been made available as a digital resource for individuals or organisations to use as a tool of resistance to protect spaces under threat within their local context.

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