In March our Place-Based Field School participated in a Broom Pull at Iona Beach Park organized by Christa Clay and Chiara Schmitt and led by Sam Cousins from Metro Vancouver’s Natural Resource Management Team.

A focus of Christa and Chiara’s design research has been to learn local practices of ecological restoration through the management and removal of invasive species such as Scotch broom, and to work with harvested Scotch broom as a resource for Industrial Design prototyping through an initiative called pl.lab / the Place-Based Material Lab. Look for the publication forthcoming from Occasional Press.

Photos by Alison Boulier