A meditation experience for the human and plant species. Project done for Eco-Centric Design with Professor Jiabao Li for Interspecies Co-Creation.
Turn findings from studying the umwelt ((in ethology) the world as it is experienced by a particular organism) of a non-human co-inhabitant of your environment and turn it into a creative work that you co-create / co-design with the non-human species.
Design a healing meditative experience bridging the natural and digital world through plant-human interface design.
- Cutting down forests is one of the biggest contributors to climate change...
- Where is our empathy towards our neighbor species that we see everyday?
- How can we better the planet we call our home together through interspecies co-design?
- Cutting down forests is one of the biggest contributors to climate change...
- Where is our empathy towards our neighbor species that we see everyday?
- How can we better the planet we call our home together through interspecies co-design?
- User-centered design: Designing project to be interactive and responsive to all users involved: humans & plants
- Bio-feedback: Allowing immediate responses, real-time feedback to the human and plant
- Mindfulness: The interactive and immersive experience provides a relaxation and calming atmosphere for all users
Previous iterations included using the plant as an instrument like vessel for music creation and translating the sounds into visualizers with Apple Music.
Wrote my own code for the meditation software in VS code using p5.js, html, css, and javascript.
- Conducted meditation testing with over 10+ participants
- Plants are growing, but how can we keep track of both ours and the plant’s meditation growth?
- Better usage for camera and laptop display?
- How can the user interface be better for humans?
- Discover and research further methods on how to deepen connection between plants and humans to co-create
- Continue to explore mindfulness aspect and further implement data visualization
- Discover different user types and edge cases
- Complete the entire user flow and continue to expand on idea
Zen was featured in The University of Texas Senior Design Capstone for the 2025 Exhibition. View my full process blog on my Notion page!
