According to an ancient European practice, when a death or a significant event occurs in the life of a beekeeper, the bees must be informed.

In Quebec, honey bees are threatened by several factors. Their shipment across the province for commercial pollination makes them vulnerable owing to transportation, exposure to pesticides and a pollen-deficient diet. Our bees are not immune to sudden Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). You have to tell them.

These worker bees require better conditions in order to carry out mass pollination and ensure their continuity. Alongside the automation of agriculture, a shift towards 4.0 in the beekeeping industry is needed. Quebec's honey bee 4.0 is thus a protected bee that works in collaboration with technologies. A meditation on an intersectionality between pollinating insects, landscape, machines and human activity; a realm of endless possibilities.

As pollination technologies require breeding and pollen harvesting, an architectural intervention within an industrial installation is an avenue to be explored both on a territorial and molecular scale.

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