Invisible Cities

Beneath every visible city lies another one made of roots, rivers, soils, breezes, and microbial worlds — a restless ecology that shapes the urban realm as profoundly as any human plan. A former landscape artist, now working with AI research labs, invites us to look at this hidden metropolis with new eyes and explore how intelligent tools can help surface the needs and rhythms of non-human actors: trees that regulate microclimates, waterways that remember old paths, soils that hold the city together grain by grain. What new forms of governance and design become possible when we learn to listen to these quieter voices — and allow the invisible city to speak?