Space Designer-Designed Birdhouses

INDEX

Phil Hawes

Pat Rawlings

Thomas W. Garvey
(USA)

Born in 1959, Ottawa, Canada. He was awarded a Design Canada Award for three
years from 1982 to 1984. After designing alunar base exhibit for the Space
Studies Institute, Princeton, he entered Kalil Studio, New York, in 1988.
Projects included development of a NASA Space Station Community Chamber and
an International City in space. He has spoken internationally and is
currently doing research on minimal space living at the University of Tokyo
and designing a mars Outpost habitat.ÅB

Larry Bell

The idea behind this birdhouse is that people, that human beings need to take a better role in protecting nature, to be better stewards for nature. The idea is that by providing for a colony of a species, in this case a flock of swallows, to nest, we're creating a niche to replace habitat that perhaps people have destroyed. But also protecting nature in another way; you could build a house like this, someplace where is an insect problem, near a marsh or a wetland, and instead of using insecticides in that area or on crops, you could build birdhouses and encourage birds to live there and eat the insects, instead of having to kill them with poisons, which ultimately affects the entire ecosystem. So, that's the underlying idea, if I were to speak philosophically.

Thomas W.Garvey

Marc Cohen

David Nixon

Brand Griffin