It holds BIG ideas and is radical, liberating, scary, mind-bogglingly empowering and also funny. It’s very, very funny.
Author/illustrator Mushin is an industrial designer, artist and inventor who collaborates with scientists and engineers to solve perplexing problems that no-one else seems to know what to do about.
Like what can be done with explosive cow gas or how to make
bikes fly or cities transform into jungles as fast as possible.
Yes! And as
well as containing more than one hundred INVENTIONS for rewilding cities and
saving the planet, this book aims to empower and excite a new generation of
designers, scientists, engineers and ultra-wild thinkers.
Which it
definitely does.
With a
friendly, hilarious conversational style and wonderful illustrations, Mushin
casually shares optimistic ideas on climate change, futuristic materials and
foods, bio reactors, soil, forest ecosystems, mechanical flight, solar thermal
power, turning roads into jungles and reversing climate change.
The words
and illustrations are compelling and seductive. They make you want to tether
your brain to his crazy and brilliant ideas and add something of your own, just
because you can. And also because you might just save the world. No harm in
trying, right?
A
seven-year labour of love, Ultra Wild gives us permission to not just
think outside the box, but to turn that box into precious compost and blast it
from a massive slingshot into places where it might turn into treasure.
The ideas,
conversations and inventions in Ultra Wild belong in every school, home,
waiting room, library, community house, bedroom, car and loo.
The perfect
gift for curious kids – with a website and masses of extra stuff.
Don’t walk
- RUN to grab your copy!
Title: Ultra Wild. An Audacious Plan For Rewilding Every City On Earth
Author/Illustrator: Steve Mushin
Publisher: Allen & Unwin, $34.99
Publication Date: 31 October 2023
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781760292812
For ages: 9 - 99
Type: Picture Book For Older Readers