This document discusses "bug hotels", structures built to provide nesting and hibernation sites for insects in gardens. It notes they were first featured in a 2010 newspaper article and can be a learning activity for children or encouraged by environmental organizations. The document also touches on urban agriculture, green infrastructure projects at various scales, the role of homeowners in supporting native plants and insects, and how constructing "bug hotels" can be both a productive and educational act of social design.

1. Bug Hotels:
A pedagogical
act of Social
design

2. Conceptual Map
Productive or generative urbanism?
ie: urban agriculture(s)
or ecological infrastructure
ie: ecosystem services
and Social design or design activism
ie: show and tell-Pecha Kucha

3. First read
about them
in a San
Francisco
Gate article
from
November 7,
2010

4. for attracting insects to your garden by
providing nesting and hibernation sites
As child learning activity Or encouraged by serious
adult "green" +
gardener organizations like
http://progressiveearlychildhoodeducation.blogspot.
com/2010/01/bug-hotel.html

5. a real
estate
company
British
Land +
the City of
London

6. Urban Agriculture as productive
cultivation
Because of such resurgent interest bee-keping in NYC legalized as of
March 2010

7. productive vs
generative?

8. Green infrastructure(s) Scaled large + small
inter-agency Sweetwater Branch / Paynes Prairie Sheetflow Restoration

9. Residential homes central part of novel ecosystems and homeowners can take some
positive action on their own in the near-term. She made a pitch to homeowners: shrink
lawns, remove non-native plants in favor of native ones, and leave leaf litter, which is
habitat for bugs. These steps are actually crucial because lawns now make up more
habitat in the U.S. than native land.
Marilyn Jordan, Senior Conservation Scientist, The Nature Conservancy at a conference
organized by the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER). http://dirt.asla.
org/2011/04/06/the-rise-of-novel-ecosystems/

10. 2 of first 3 examples used on Wikipedia refer to pollination by
bumblebees and detritivores ability to process waste

11. Urban gardening as not just
act of productivity but also....
a social, communal, political act of generation creating new
ecologies of knowledge-sharing-togetherness

12. Social Design:
architecture (AFH),
Industrial Design
(IDEO,org) or even
Google.org
knowledge transfer as
generative (social)
design

13. Went to Re-User Building Products Inc

19. So what do we end up with?
Easy, DIY, ecological infrastructure....
Recycles, construction waste. Distributed, small scale
Educational science experiment...
So now you can make your own, make it better and
pass it on....