Engaging Spontaneity

Engaging Spontaneity imagines an initiative funded by Melbourne Water that seeks to improve the ecological productivity of the Moonee Ponds Creek through the establishment of spontaneous urban ecologies.The focus of the project has been largely on social interactions with spontaneous ecologies, rather than on the ecologies themselves. None of the final outcomes depicted through this document are completed works but rather speculations on how the project might take shape.

The formation of thoroughfares through Delth Reserve, for example, relied on the assumption that, over time, the suppressional force of footsteps would match the upward force of the vegetation. However, there may be an unexpected imbalance between the two, leading to either an overgrown unusable space or alternatively to a space that has suppressed spontaneous ecologies to the point of being unable to become established. 

It is the ambition of the project to shift the negative perceptions of such ecologies by implementing a catalytic framework that exaggerates the generative capacity of the Moonee Ponds Creek. This framework will facilitate social interaction with the dynamic processes by which spontaneous urban ecologies are defined. Through this, the stigma towards them will be diminished, shedding light on their potential to introduce self-sustaining ecologies into hyper-disturbed urban environments and to find compatibility between urban and ecological systems.