ABOUT
A decade ago a friend told me it’d be impossible to get crows to do anything useful, and that killing them all off would be better. Finally, I did something about it to prove him wrong.
Synanthropes are animals that live near humans, and they’re an unusual type of species of which crows are an unusually smart example. The crowbox is a means of creating a mutually beneficial relationship with them – instead of trying to destroy them.
This site allows anyone in the world to help make a crowbox of their own, and then share the results. The goal is to help spread the idea of mutually beneficial synanthropy and to change how we look at human habitats and the species we’ve dispossessed in the process of expanding them.
Josh Klein speaks and consults about new and emerging technologies – and more broadly about how systems thinking can let anyone hack anything to produce better, more efficient, and often unexpected results. Learn more at his site, www.josh.is, or follow him on Twitter!
See Zach Eveland of Blacklabel Development for more mad genius – he’s responsible for the electronics that made this project work!
