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Provides Ng

Provides Ng

https://www.instagram.com/provides.ism/

THE BARTLETT SCHOOL, 22 GORDON STREET, LONDON, United Kingdom
Provides Ng is an architect and a researcher, whose works examine digital tools and their impacts on architecture and urbanism. Her current research discusses how planetary-scale computation prompts to a ‘preemptive urbanism’, where data is a tool for simulating a parallel future that guides our design strategies, forming a collaborative vision between architects, AI and the public. She experiments with multimedia narrative in design to expand the spectrum of architectural representation.

Call for ideas 2020

Who should own our vegetation?


Incentivising Carbon Derivatives Market

Who should own our vegetation?


Incentivising Carbon Derivatives Market
What are the potentials of decentralising urban tree ownership as a carbon derivatives strategy?
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Type of project
  • Systemic changes

Countless cities participate in a speculative economy of urbanism, where liquid capitals are accumulated in concrete form. Green initiatives face obstacles like shadow economies, where markets do not see how carbon cycling can be profitable. Among the challenges is the unwelcoming to urban vegetation, not only by development schemes, but also citizens. Every year, Hong Kong receives approx. 18000 complaints on trees, causing their removal. The rate of carbon cycling in urban trees is higher than those in forests, how can architects design for a system where carbon is the value we circulate within urbanism? If CO2 recycling is better for humans, there are value to be realised, what are the potentials of decentralising urban tree ownership as a carbon derivatives strategy? What is the minimum modular unit of land value relative to digital econometrics? This project discusses ways in which citizens and urban vegetation can be amalgamated into the same urban ecosystem dynamics.


A proposed app interface for platform econometrics as part of the implementation strategies.

An example of web interface for decentralising urban tree ownership within urbanism.

GIS mapping of urban trees and related market trading routes of Russia.

A speculation on the automated green infrastructure needed to support non-human urbanism.

Who should own our vegetation?


Incentivising Carbon Derivatives Market

Who should own our vegetation?


Incentivising Carbon Derivatives Market
What are the potentials of decentralising urban tree ownership as a carbon derivatives strategy?
File under
Type of project
  • Systemic changes

Countless cities participate in a speculative economy of urbanism, where liquid capitals are accumulated in concrete form. Green initiatives face obstacles like shadow economies, where markets do not see how carbon cycling can be profitable. Among the challenges is the unwelcoming to urban vegetation, not only by development schemes, but also citizens. Every year, Hong Kong receives approx. 18000 complaints on trees, causing their removal. The rate of carbon cycling in urban trees is higher than those in forests, how can architects design for a system where carbon is the value we circulate within urbanism? If CO2 recycling is better for humans, there are value to be realised, what are the potentials of decentralising urban tree ownership as a carbon derivatives strategy? What is the minimum modular unit of land value relative to digital econometrics? This project discusses ways in which citizens and urban vegetation can be amalgamated into the same urban ecosystem dynamics.


A proposed app interface for platform econometrics as part of the implementation strategies.

An example of web interface for decentralising urban tree ownership within urbanism.

GIS mapping of urban trees and related market trading routes of Russia.

A speculation on the automated green infrastructure needed to support non-human urbanism.


Idea by

Provides Ng
Provides Ng
THE BARTLETT SCHOOL, 22 GORDON STREET
LONDON
United Kingdom
Provides Ng is an architect and a researcher, whose works examine digital tools and their impacts on architecture and urbanism. Her current research discusses how planetary-scale computation prompts to a ‘preemptive urbanism’, where data is a tool for simulating a parallel future that guides our design strategies, forming a collaborative vision between architects, AI and the public. She experiments with multimedia narrative in design to expand the spectrum of architectural representation.