What's in a border?

In this photo, from a horizontal perspective, you see a permeable border between two inner city gardens in Basel. A separation and a connection.

From a vertical perspective, it is a meeting space between the human world and the earthly world. A meeting of leaves and soil, wood and wire, insects and humans and air. What can be seen above the earth and also what is not visible below the surface. A separation and a connection.

For so long humans have been leaving an imprint on the earthly world with little regard for the other species that inhabit this planet. 

Recent studies out of the University of Basel have recommended the use of these kinds of permeable borders to promote biodiversity in gardens, particularly regarding the life of soil invertebrates.

Listening to the needs of the other inhabitants of this planet unlocks a great potential for Basel to be a place where humans and the earthly world 'meet, embrace, clash and transform one another.' (Neimanis)