NFBs, the digital collection of Non-Fungible Bioregions, are to showcase the uniqueness of Shanghai bioregion and wetland biodiversity
为了展示上海生态区的独特性、湿地生物多样性而设计的一系列数字藏品NFBs
A project by Si Keting 司柯亭, Zhou Yufei 周与非 and Zhou Aixuan 周艾璇 for Media Design Studio “Flumen”
We have created digital collections listed as NFBs to demonstrate the uniqueness of Shanghai’s ecoregions, wetland biodiversity.
NFTs are unique assets that prove ownership of physical or digital items, and the NFBs we designed are different from NFTs:
我们制作了一些列名为NFB的数字藏品，来展示上海生态区的独特性、湿地生物多样性。
NFT 是证明物理或数字项目所有权的独特资产，而我们设计的NFBs与NFTs有着如下区别：
- NFBs do not use blockchain cryptography, we are trying to find a partner, such as WWF.
技术不同。NFB并没有用区块链加密技术，我们在尝试找到合作方，例如WWF。 - The purpose is different. NFTs are financial commodities, but NFBs are for sale (money) to donate to the conservation of wetland diversity (we are trying to work with WWF’s NFA sale site)
目的不同。NFT是金融商品，但是NFB是为了售卖（钱），用于捐赠湿地多样性的保护（我们尝试与WWF的NFA售卖网站合作）
We show the uniqueness of Shanghai as a bioregion through wetland flies, which we found to be an annoying image of infectious diseases in the city. However, in wetlands flies take on a completely different role: in wetlands, flies pollinate flowers and are also an important link in the food chain. Diverse flies also work together to form a huge gene pool. We looked up a number of papers studying the biodiversity of the Jiangwan wetlands and found that flies are a very important group of populations, and that the species diversity of flies can express the biodiversity of Shanghai’s wetlands. Flies show two roles in Shanghai’s wetland and city, so we decided to use a form similar to NFT to show the diversity of flies, through realistic hand-drawn pictures to reflect the characteristics of different flies, thus reflecting that Shanghai is not only a city, but also a bioregion.
们通过湿地苍蝇来展现上海作为bioregion的独特性，我们发现在城市中，苍蝇是令人讨厌的传染疾病的形象。然而，在湿地中苍蝇承担完全不同的角色：在湿地中，苍蝇为花授粉，同时也是食物链的重要一环。多样性的苍蝇还共同组成了巨大的基因库。我们查找到一些研究江湾湿地生物多样性的论文，发现蝇类是其中很重要的一类种群，蝇类的物种多样性可以表现出上海湿地的生物多样性。苍蝇在上海的湿地、城市展现两种角色，所以我们确定下来用类似于NFT的形式来展示苍蝇的多样性，通过写实的手绘图片，体现不同苍蝇的特征，从而体现上海不仅是城市，还是bioregion。
As the output part, we extracted 9 species of flies from different genera from the huge population of flies, and we focused on detailed portrayal of different flies’ wings, patterns and other detailed features.
作为产出部分，我们从庞大的蝇类种群中提取了来自不同属种的9种苍蝇，我们着重细致刻画不同苍蝇的翅膀、花纹等细节特征：
We have also created a website that will display the more detailed characteristics of these 9 species of flies for the purpose of popularizing them to the general public and selling them as a digital collection, after selling the user will get the ownership of the NFB and we will donate the money to the Shanghai Wetland Park.
同时我们还建立了一个网站，将会把这9种苍蝇更为详细的特征进行展示，以达到向大众科普的目的，同时作为数字藏品售卖，卖出后用户会获得NFB的所有权，我们会将钱捐赠给上海湿地公园。
