Between 2019 and 2021 I collaborated with Nick Curmi and CERES Environment Park to design Terra Wonder – an adventure playground based around the theme of soil ecology. The central climbing structure is a Futuristic Forest Making Mechanical Millipede the size of a bus. This machine is imagined to be biogas- powered. It has robot arms for tearing up roads, and a seed blasting rear end. At 17m long it is built a 500:1 scale relative to a real millipede.

Nick and I actually began the project in 2009, so it was stupendously exciting to see finally being built. Current funding has allowed just a few key parts of the overall design to be built. But CERES aims to complete the entire park in the next five or so years.

Thanks to Nick Curmi and Chris Ennis at CERES for holding the vison. To construction lead, Adam Cogger, Adrien, Cam and the CERES site team for their amazing fabrication skills. And to the playground’s community steering committee and in kind supporters: Joana Montalvo, Mary Jeavons, Paul Grover, Frank Cichello, Marcus Veerman, Lauren Kaszubski, Vanessa Chapple, Lindy de Wijn, Rosie Curmi – and so many more.