🐦‍⬛6.21 Luhu: Invited to join a summer field visit at Luye Park

I was invited to a field visit at Luye Park. I’ve been there many times before—mostly for camera setups—but this time was different. Experts from different fields came together to examine how to optimize plant communities, control invasive species, and monitor and restore small wetlands.

The experience gave me a fresh perspective. I picked up sharper technical knowledge about ecology and wetland plants.

It made me reflect on something bigger: long-term thinking is the real landing point.

Landscape design often aims for quick, visible, and controllable results. But ecosystems don’t work like that. They’re complex, dynamic, and unpredictable. Wanting a fixed, perfect picture is wishful thinking. Protecting biodiversity in urban parks requires breaking free from rigid systems and outdated habits.

We are engaging with time scales that stretch far beyond our lifetimes. That calls for humility and patience. More than that, the entire logic and mindset behind urban landscape design needs to be re-examined if we truly want to keep pace with nature’s reality.