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
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
action&Reaction
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
