Woodlands Botanical Garden, Marsiling Road, Singapore
What would change in how we design, govern, and invest in cities if we treated the restoration of ecological function, not merely green aesthetics, as a measure of urban success?
Offsite Location: Woodlands Botanical Garden, Marsiling Road, Singapore
In a Woodlands housing estate, two people decided to stop planting for humans. Ganesh and Wilson rewilded a small patch of land by asking a simple question: what would come back if we planted for wildlife instead? The answer has been extraordinary. Their garden now hosts more butterfly species than the entire UK. Eagles have returned. A full food chain has quietly reassembled itself behind a housing block.
This walk takes participants through the garden with its creators, learning to read a landscape designed for life rather than appearance, contributing real biodiversity data through the iNaturalist app, and taking home a plant grown from the garden's own cuttings.
The experience opens a bigger question: if nature comes back this fast when given even a small opening, what does that tell us about what our cities could be?
