Sensory healing installation, 2024
Format Responsive Botanical Installation
Tools Arduino,TouchDesigner,Sensors
Year 2024
OVERVIEW
Breathing Garden is a community based responsive installation that amplifies the breathing rhythms, organic forms and sensory qualities of plants to create a calming and restorative experience. Environmental, proximity and touch sensors translate human presence and changing conditions into light, inflation, mist and a live digital interface. Installed in a community garden, the work invited local residents to approach, observe and care for a hybrid botanical system, exploring how physical computing can support sensory connection and community wellbeing.
INTERACTION & EXPERIENCE
Driven by Arduino controlled air pumps, the structure dynamically inflates and deflates, physically simulating the rhythmic breathing of a living organism.
Atomizers release programmed aromatic vapor, mimicking botanical transpiration while actively regulating spatial humidity to induce a restorative, relaxing state.
A web interface allows neighbors to interact, monitor, and care for the cyber plant online, transforming the physical installation into a shared community garden.