Urban Insects
Visualising insect research for urban biodiversity.
We continue to work with the City of Melbourne on a project that provides a digital platform to communicate the central issues of the Urban Forest. Key to this platform is an interactive health map for every tree that the City of Melbourne manages, enabling citizens to quickly see the state of their favourite tree in terms of life expectancy.
What’s been remarkable about this project is how it has been featured around the world (BBC, Reuters, The Atlantic), included in the V&A exhibition The Future Starts Here, and sparked a global conversation about urban nature and open data.
Melbourne’s Urban Forest
As a city, Melbourne has benefited from visionary planting of treed avenues and parks in the late 19th century. However these trees — over a hundred years later — are now coming to the end of their life cycle. Compounding this historical condition with prolonged droughts and potential changes in climate, the urban forest is an important city asset requiring a strategic long-term approach to its management.
Process & Approach
Project Team
Visualisation, UX and implementation: OOM Creative, Miek