Darwin Parkchipelago
This illustration proposes a speculative floating park in the River Thames, created for the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s visit to the Galápagos Islands. Each island in the park functions as a walk-through environment that translates Darwin’s observations into spatial experiences using reconstructed landscapes, animatronic specimens, and narrative pathways.
Rather than recreating the Galápagos literally, the project reframes them as an experiential archive. Visitors learn through movement, comparison, and sequencing, mirroring how Darwin developed ideas through observation rather than certainty. Set within London, the project explores how scientific knowledge is shaped by context, travel, and interpretation, and how theory can be made legible through space.