Kera — Night of the Fireflies

The installation by Kera architects weaves together two intertwined forms of quiet disappearance: the vanishing of fireflies under habitat loss, light pollution, and climate change, and the decay of Georgian vernacular architecture driven by industrialization, rural decline, and the erosion of traditional craftsmanship. Together, they reveal how cultural, social, and ecological knowledge vanish under modern pressures. The global decline of fireflies has become a subtle symbol of environmental degradation. Once common on summer nights, their glow is fading under pressures from habitat loss, pesticides, and especially expanding artificial light. Fireflies rely on darkness, humidity, and intact wetlands or meadows for their courtship signals and life cycles, yet urbanization and industrial agriculture fragment and pollute these habitats. Light pollution further disrupts mating by drowning their bioluminescent signals in constant glare. Climate change worsens the crisis by altering temperatures, rainfall, and hibernation patterns. This gradual disappearance is both ecological and cultural, severing a sensory connection between people and the natural world and revealing how modern brightness, noise, and speed have displaced the quiet darkness that once allowed them to thrive.

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