ABSTRACT
The history of urban infrastructural planning can be traced back to the earliest civic records; however, it was the Parisian prefect and administrative lead Georges Haussmann, and the Catalan Spanish engineer Ildefons Cerda, who are most often credited as the 19th century agents responsible for giving rise to what the peoples think of today as modern urban planning. Ordinary citizens are therefore often locked out of high stake urban planning decisions. Even when citizens’ views are taken into account the process can be limiting, leading in the worse case to unsatisfactory outcomes for all parties involved. Additionally, while collaborations with slime mould can provide a relatively quick medium through which to communicate new urban designs and plans, this needs to be balanced with the time it takes to cultivate slime mould. The emergent nature of the maps demonstrates a distinctively bottom-up approach, one which could also be argued is playful, engaging and species inclusive.
