MINI Forest
Architect: Asif Khan
Location: London
Completed: 2016
MINI Forests is exactly what you would expect it to be, and it also is not. A series of installations across the city have been implemented to detract and detach form city life and provide a temporary release from the hussle and bussle of city life. The installations which vary in form all house plants, which we know to be beneficial to health on a multitudes of platforms. Physical, as they absorb toxins from city air, mental because they tap into a part of the brain that tells us being around nature is soothing and in Asif Khan's project, social.
Socially, people are encouraged to take away plants and donate plants at will. This encourages a parasitic progression of the plants, spreading through the city in whatever little nook they can find their new home. Metaphorically it is a proactive response to what would happen if climate change was not challenged sooner, as we would see plant life spread across our cities if everything man made ceased to exist.
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