Pollinator Pathmaker is an art-led campaign to make art for pollinators, planted and cared for by humans. We want to transform how we see gardens and who we make them for. Created by the artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, it was commissioned by the Eden Project, Cornwall.

As human actions are causing an alarming decline in pollinators around the world, how and what we plant matters. If pollinators designed gardens, what would humans see?

Working with experts at Eden and beyond, Ginsberg devised the Pollinator Pathmaker algorithmic tool to design gardens to suit pollinators’ tastes, rather than ours. Selecting plants from a curated palette, every garden the algorithm designs is different, but each is computed to support the maximum pollinator species possible.