G02 Urban Amphibians

Consider amphibians such as frogs as representatives of the futures of urban water.

Cf.

• Water
• urban water
• wetlands
• blue and green landscape connectivity
• blue cities
• frashwaters as the "third realm"
• urban aquatic habitats

What emerging and imaginative solutions are available for the design of urban water?

How do these solutions interface with developing changes/threats that involve water in the cities?

What is urban water as a habitat? Exterior, interior, as bodies of water, as vapor, as moisture, in living beings, etc.

What is special about frogs? What is their evolutionary and life history? How do they relate to human cultures?

what is the relationship to design?

What about the situation in Melbourne, in relationship to sites and species?

Are you interested in governance or concrete design decisions?

Can you reserach the available evidence-based visualisations of possible wetlands?

How can humans better include frogs into design? What is required and possible?

What real projects can be based on this? Can you prepare a proposal for funding based on this?

Urban Ecology

Consider literature on Urban Ecology

Des Roches, Simone, Kristien I. Brans, Max R. Lambert, L. Ruth Rivkin, Amy Marie Savage, Christopher J. Schell, Cristian Correa, et al. ‘Socio-Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Cities’. Evolutionary Applications 14, no. 1 (2021): 248–67. https://doi.org/10/ghs8tw.

References

See Amphibians

Rees, Charles B. van, Kerry A. Waylen, Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber, Stephen J. Thackeray, Gregor Kalinkat, Koen Martens, Sami Domisch, et al. ‘Safeguarding Freshwater Life Beyond 2020: Recommendations for the New Global Biodiversity Framework from the European Experience’. Conservation Letters 14, no. 1 (2021): e12771. https://doi.org/10/gtp96z.