Promotion: Urban design brand Urbidermis has created a series of short documentary videos about designing greener, more social cities.
Created in collaboration with outdoor furniture brand Landscape Forms, The Living City video series includes five episodes, each less than two minutes long.
“We are thinking about how to better connect public spaces, make them greener and more human – it is about our history and our future,” Urpedermis said.
Founded in 1987, Urbidermis designs urban lighting, street furniture and landscape designs aimed at making cities more sustainable and social.
The consulting firm has worked with outdoor furniture brand Landscape Forms since 2006 to advance its mission of improving urban environments.
The first episode of The Living City, titled Level Zero, features Urbidermis editor Josep Maria Serra talking about the consulting firm’s goals for improving city environments and its early work designing urban interventions in Barcelona for the 1992 Olympics.
The second episode, Comprehensive Perspectives, explores the manufacturing process of Urbidermis products and their commitment to circularity.
“Our focus is on improving circularity by using certified materials with multiple lifetimes, and holding ourselves accountable to commitment and transparency,” the brand said.
“We choose responsible materials that age well and promote policies that increase their durability or give them a second life.”
This is followed by 21st Century Street, where environmental scientists and architects are interviewed about the challenges currently facing cities. Among the topics covered were inclusivity, nature and mobility.
“The cities of the future must be greener, more just, more inclusive, and more humane in scale,” environmental activist Claudia Nieto said in the episode.
Urbidermis’ biodiverse tree and plant nursery, Belloch Forestal, is the focus of Episode Four, Renaturalizing Cities.
Matteo Sans, managing director of Belloch Forestal, explained that regenerative farming practices are used to grow the trees, which means no pesticides are used and livestock are not introduced to the site.
“Trees provide two primary benefits in cities,” Sans said. “Some of the benefits, which we clearly understand, are ecosystem related, carbon dioxide capture, and noise dampening.”
“Other benefits related to people’s health are less well known.”
The final episode, The City as a Technological Artifact, focuses on the Urbidermis Urbidata information platform, which aims to use data to make more informed urban planning decisions.
“The emergence of new technologies provides new opportunities to improve the way we live together in cities,” Orbidermes said.
“Data enables us to make better decisions and provide citizens with new jobs.”
Photography by La Juani.
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This article was written by Dezeen for Urbidermis and Landscape Forms as part of the partnership. Find out more about Dezeen’s partnership content here.
