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Pollinator Pathmaker

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, More Than Human Fellow 2024-25

Pollinator Pathmaker LAS Edition in the forecourt of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin in June 2024. Photo: Sabine Bungert.

Pollinator Pathmaker is an artwork for other species.

Ginsberg’s unique algorithmic tool generates planting schemes optimised for pollinator diversity, rather than human aesthetics; these living artworks are then planted and cared for by humans. Launched in 2021, and expanding internationally, Pollinator Pathmaker presents a new approach to ecological action by creating art for the more-than-human, transforming humans from consumers to caretakers. Her experiment in ‘algorithmic altruism’ asks whether we can embed alternative value systems in the technologies we make or if human creativity inherently prioritise our needs.

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s double-sided tapestry Pollinator Pathmaker: Four Epochs of Paradise photographed at Aviva Studios. Photo: Thierry Bal

 Ginsberg is creating the world’s largest climate-positive artwork by integrating public institutional commissions and local community engagement via her online tool www.pollinator.art. For the More than Human Fellowship, she will work in tapestry and draw on its history in art as a utopian space to explore Pollinator Pathmaker’s aesthetic question: can an artwork simulate the experience of the world of another species, inviting empathy for the more-than-human?

Pollinator Pathmaker DIY Edition, commissioned by LAS Art Foundation in Gleimviertel, Berlin, 2023. Photo: Frank Sperling.

https://www.daisyginsberg.com/

Pollinator Pathmaker

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg shares her research progress in this article as she explains her ongoing living artwork, Pollinator Pathmaker and the development of a large-scale tapestry, which has emerged from the same project. This tapestry, along with that of the other fellows, will be on show at the Design Museum as part of the More than Human exhibition, which opens in July 2025.
 
Author: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is a multidisciplinary artist examining our fraught relationships with nature and technology. Ginsberg received her PhD from London’s Royal College of Art, and her work is in
 

More Than Human at the Design Museum, coming June 2025