POLINATURE: Chinatown
By Ecosistema Urbano
Date: Summer 2025
Photo credit: Emilio P Doiztua
POLINATURE: Chinatown coming in summer 2025, will be a multi-sensory experience for people of varying abilities, ages, and backgrounds. A visually striking eco structure, it will transform a site in Chinatown into an engaging green space for visitors and community to gather, learn, and reflect. It responds to Chinatown’s need for more cool, welcoming spaces for both people and local wildlife. Combining landscape architecture, horticulture, and visual arts, the POLINATURE: Chinatown will generate a special space that is welcoming to people of all backgrounds and reflects the welcoming nature of Chinatown, a haven for Asian American Pacific Islander and immigrant communities.
About Ecosistema Urbano
Ecosistema Urbano is a team of architects, urban planners and professionals specializing in urban transformation and innovation, operating under design thinking principles at the intersection of different disciplines: urban planning, architecture, engineering and sociology.
They define their philosophy as urban social design, a concept that encompasses a way of understanding the city, its social context and associated dynamics, with an approach that promotes self-organization and social interaction and a sustainable relationship with the surroundings and the environment.
About the Project
POLINATURE: Chinatown is part of the Un-monument Initiative presented by Pao Arts Center, curated by Lani Asunción and in collaboration with the City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture. It is brought to you by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
