I chose to place my Framed Nature installations in the stairway at the Bayard Ewing Building (BEB) on RISD's campus. The BEB houses studios, classrooms, and offices for the Landscape Architecture and Architecture departments. I chose this location because of its obvious lack of biophilic attributes as well as the desire to expose it to as many people as possible. It is the main stairway to the computer lab, and almost everyone in the building uses the lab.
I do not think that I chose a suitable location for the installation due to the small scale of the pieces in relation to the stairwell. However I do think that small scale biophilic interventions can make a difference in peoples lives, they just need to be scaled accordingly. The stairway is too large for one to notice something as small as the framed plants, that combined with the function of the location plays a large part in the lack of a biophilic success. The stairwell is a transitional space where few people spend any considerable amount of time and even when they do they are usually focusing on their feet as they move up and down. I might consider moving these pieces to a location that is more conducive to their small scale.
In the future I would like to see larger scaled pieces that are more intrusive either in their presence or their intent. Can a biophilic intervention be designed to focus in on one particular attribute or can it overtake the room in way that image on the wall in the RISD Museum classroom does?
How can the term Guerilla in Guerilla Biophilia be leveraged in such a way that it lives up to its reputation and become a force that solicits a response?
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