Synurbic Species

Synurbic species are animals or plants that adapt to and thrive in urban environments, adjusting behavior, feeding, or reproduction to city life. The word comes from “syn-” (together) and “urban,” pointing to the new ecologies formed where humans and nonhumans share dense built habitats. Often they are seen as nuisances—rats, pigeons, weeds—yet they are also proof of resilience and adaptation. They show how cities are not only human inventions but living systems where nonhumans reorganize survival. Their presence unsettles the idea of the city as only ours, forcing us to face the messy and sometimes unwanted alliances of cohabitation. For landscape architects, synurbic species are both challenge and chance: to work with the ecologies that already claim the city, not only the ones we plant or plan. They make visible the porousness of urban space, and remind us that design is always entangled with other agencies

/ Urška Škerl

When we speak of Nature in cities, the question we want to stress is, is nature in cities natural or in fact an artefact? When we speak of natural processes, they of course take place but apart from spontaneous nature, left to random succession, emerging in spaces that Gilles Clément calls the third landscapes, there […]

/ Zaš Brezar

Urban biodiversity? Yes, please! Nevertheless … … Due to the transitional phase of our understanding of nature in the light of the Anthropocene, there are still some important notions, contradictions and misunderstandings that need to be addressed. To do so, we will operate with terms like nature, ecology, biodiversity, landscape, and aesthetics, and we’ll focus […]

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