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Extending on our design work for the international research program, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES), we have collaborated with the same team to create the Niche construction website.
“We shape our buildings and, afterwards, our buildings shape us”
This quote does not just apply to people, but to a myriad living things that, together, shape the niches in which they live and are then shaped by the new forces that arise within their constructed niche.
To help the researchers who formulated and tested this theory over many years, we have re-designed the niche construction website to improve its accessibility on different platforms and highlight insights and challenges through new photography and case studies.
“This is amazing! There is so much material on the website and everything is extremely well presented and clear, in words as well as in pictures.”
Designed primarily for academics and university students studying biological sciences, this platform serves as a comprehensive resource for exploring key concepts, research, and educational tools in the field. We’ve also made sure to present the material in an accessible way for lay audiences, ensuring that anyone interested in biology – regardless of their background – can engage with and enjoy the information
We designed and built the resource in house to ensure the site can be managed and maintained at low cost, paying careful attention to the mobile site to ensure it is as easy to navigate and read as the desktop version.
The new website coincides with the launch of an important new book by Oxford biologist John Odling-Smee who was the first to coin the term ‘niche construction‘, and the first person to make the argument that niche construction should be recognised as an evolutionary process.
“A really strong resource… useful to a wide audience of biologists and philosophers of biology. I am delighted that niche construction will have this kind of authoritative and compelling online presence.”
The project connects to our growing body of work with biologists and evolutionary scientists from educational material and videos for Kevin Lala and colleagues new book ‘Evolution evolving’, their work on Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, the identity and website design for the Cultural Evolution Society and our recent identity and website design with the Royal Society of Biology.
If you’re interested in clarifying, communicating and creating new impact around wicked and complex areas of scientific and ecological research, please do get in touch for a creative and constructive conversation about your challenge.
