Plantbour: Plant? Labour!

Speculative Design | Interaction Installation | Creative Coding
Project Overview
An critical thinking interactive installation that seeing urban natureas workforce.
Duration
2 months
Team with
Teamwork
My role
Research
Creative coding
Photographing
Tool
Arduino
urbanisation is a form of human life centred on economic functioning and that finance is one of the important criteria distinguishing cities from other forms of life. So if we look at natural plants in cities from an economic point of view, what do they look like? What value does this perspective bring us?

What future will data lead to when quantifiable objects are no longer limited to objects and solid existance, when non-visible factors such as temperature, breathing and environment can be measured? Does the presence of plants and nature make sense in these conditions? Are we already in such a future reality? Do natural rights like human rights really exist? Whose interests are we ultimately upholding when we emphasise respect for nature and its protection? Our starting point was that we wanted to use familiar concepts of economy to draw people’s attention to plants, and the economic perspective was a unconscious choice. But in the process of refining the concept and making the design, we gradually discovered the connection between economics, the city and nature, and came to understand why we had made this choice in the first place. This kind of experience, which process determining the outcome and in turn outcome explaining the beginning of the design that has been my greatest reward.