RefuBees is a long-term art–science practice exploring how wild bees survive under systemic ecological pressure. While industrial agriculture has rendered vast rural landscapes uninhabitable, cities have unexpectedly become places of refuge. Since 2012, RefuBees investigates what this situation demands from urban environments, ecologically, socially, and culturally.
Through BeeTotems, the BeeCircus, and the campaign Adopt a Wild Bee, urban residents are invited to participate in concrete, situated case studies. What begins with planting, caring, and observing connects to a broader inquiry: how cities can take responsibility within a crisis they did not cause, yet cannot ignore.