COMMON SKY
User-center design | Product design | Experience design | Public welfare design
Individual Project (Dec. 2024 - May. 2025)
This interactive workshop invites participants to co-create an urban environment that supports both human needs and native UK birds. Through tactile play, storytelling, and digital feedback, users build cities while navigating real-time ecological consequences. The project explores how participatory design can spark new conversations around more-than-human futures.
Centred on bird-human coexistence, I use interactive, participatory design to reveal how urban planning impacts biodiversity. Through an introductory tablet, an interactive building board, and a takeaway folder, participants move from understanding to action — engaging in playful yet informed decisions. The workshop makes ecological consequences visible and tangible, encouraging both awareness and agency. I approach design as a tool for systems thinking and action, blending tactile interaction with real-time digital feedback to provoke empathy, responsibility, and long-term thinking.
In collaboration with the London Wildlife Trust, I hosted the workshop at Walthamstow Wetlands on 26 May and 12 June 2025.
Research Outcome:
From my secondary research, I discovered that there are already many effective solutions—ranging from architecture and products to legal regulations—that address the problem of bird collisions. However, the primary challenge lies in the lack of public awareness, as many people do not realize the significance of bird collisions or how deeply connected birds are to human life.
Design Aim:
To raise public awareness about the importance of coexistence between birds and humans through partcipatory, climate-positive design.
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Building Board
Digital Design
Screenshot of the game process