Shifting Ground
Infrastructure in a More-than-Human Landscape
2022
In Yunnan, the seasonal movement of wild Asian elephants increasingly intersects with expanding farmland and settlements. Using 3D simulation as an analytical tool, it models elevated habitation and aerial circulation to reduce land fragmentation while integrating ecosystem value into carbon frameworks. It explores elevated habitation and aerial circulation as strategies to reduce ground-level fragmentation. The project reframes the region as a more-than-human territory in which infrastructure must respond to ecological movement rather than assume fixed human dominance.
The animated model functions as a spatial argument, examining how land use, economic valuation, and settlement logic might shift within a more-than-human landscape to accommodate movement instead of resisting it.
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