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Ephemeral Blossom

A interactive installation base on flowers

Platform: Arduino + Processing

My Role: Interaction Designer & Engineer

Key Words: Installation, Prototyping, Exhibition, Life cycling  

Apr 2019 - Jun 2019

introduction

Ephemeral Blossom is a visual communication interactive installation on the relationship between flower and life. Experiencer may appreciate, feel and interact with hundreds of flowers which have 4 status: Burgeon, Blossom, Wither and Perish. We hope that through these flowers, visitors can think more about the life, the nature and explore more about the communication between human and environment.

Our Group

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Wang Xiaoying (right):Interaction Design & Installation Engineering

Nong Wenwen (left): Visual & Interaction Design

Concept

Communication

Nature

Life

In the natural world, the flower blooms from the state of the flower buds, and soon afterwards it’s withering and dying—people too have youth, maturity, aging, and death. Whether it is flowers or people, the cycle of life is so short and precious. This interactive installation: Ephemeral Blossom aims to appreciate the beauty of the natural life cycle by watching, feeling and interacting with flowers and cherishing the moments and seconds.

Besides, we also explore the idea: is there any opportunity for us to talk to these natural creature? Will they understand and reply?

brain storm

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action&Reaction

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① Normal Mode

When switching on, the flowers will start rotating between 4 stages:  Burgeon, Blossom, Wither and Perish. Then in the next year (next round) they will come to burgeon again.

 ACTION 

② Communication Mode

If you tell something to the flower, some secret or just beautiful sentences, it will promptly give you a reaction, rotating opposite and faster. It will also stop to generate a result.

 reACTION 

We want the visitor/ experiencer to discover and feel the life circle of the flower, of nature as well as of humanity.

During the rotation, sometimes there will be a flower that is late and cannot catch up with the general speed. Will that mean a tendency of the flower to be forever withered?

Can flowers or natural things understand words? That’s a philosophical problem.

We just want the experiencer to think about that mystery and also want them to find something or get something by that result, using their own understanding and experience.

exhibition scene

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Preparation

© 2023 by Xiaoying Wang

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