Year
2019
Client
Educational
Role
Industrial Design
Sound Design
Spore
Our approach was to explore how we can create life-centered design and combine qualia experiences in the world of technology. Plants are living beings and have a language, but it's hard to understand as a human. We wanted to explore ways of visualizing the activity, behaviour and communication of plants through sound.
The project was done together with the Interaction Programme at Umeå Institute of Design. I teamed up together with Oliver Weglinski, Inna Zrajeva and Bastian Reichhardt.
We wanted to create a product that connects the plant and the human, in an equally devided relationship.
Instead of creating yet another product that tells the human when the plant needs water, we wanted to explore further into how they communicate their behaviour as living beings.
Creating a product that enables the human to explore theses behaviours and learn to recognise patters and sounds to get to know the plant.
To test out or initial ideas we used moisture sensors to generate actual sounds from plants. We also added water to hear the difference is tones that was generated. A lot of mockups and fast prototypes were also constructed to communicate the ideas between the group members.
We also used our own sound recordings for every sound effect, to gain full control of the outcome.
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