For this semester long group project, our team of five industrial design students had task designing anything we wanted, as long as it was about bees. After thorough desktop research we decided to focus on raising awareness about the importance of bees in big cities like Boston. After months of concept development and back and forth between designing a three-dimensional object, a kind of marketing strategy for education on them, a social movement, a safe haven for bees, and even a bee sanctuary, we landed on the Boston Bee Garden. The idea was a melting pot of all the previous mentioned concepts.

This steel, sculptural garden could be located in any public open space so its colossal and interesting presence attracts people to find out what it is. Because of its shape, it is easy to conclude, even from afar, that the subjects of matter are bees. With an informational plaque it would educate and inspire civilians to take the necessary steps to help bees survive snd would also serve as a bio-diverse dietary supplement for the surrounding pollinators. The team's effort was well distributed and the core of the project involved lots of meetings and collaboration. 

My role included codeveloping the concept, the form of the structure, and 3D prototyping. By myself, I contacted the City of Boston and figured out the logistics of what it would take to build and install this structure in a public space; I figured out which areas would work best for our purpose, what flowers could be planted in it in different seasons, and made sure the visual design of our presentations was cohesive with our story and was easy to understand.