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# Project Description Heartfelt Greenery Tianyu Xia Summary Final work Terry is a designer focused on interactive systems that blend technology, nature, and emotional experience. With a background in visual communication and speculative design, their work explores sensory interaction, environmental storytelling, and human-nonhuman relationships. They aim to create poetic, responsive objects that invite users to slow down, observe, and reconnect—with both the environment and themselves. Terry is a designer focused on interactive systems that blend technology, nature, and emotional e... College Central Saint Martins Course MA Biodesign Graduation year 2025 Heartfelt Greenery is a levitating interactive plant system designed for people who struggle to care for plants or connect with nature in daily life. Using a magnetic suspension base, it elevates a real plant while monitoring environmental factors such as humidity, light, and temperature via built-in sensors. An OLED screen visualizes the plant’s “emotional” status in real time—dryness, stress, or comfort—offering intuitive, ambient feedback. The device responds to human presence through gesture detection and subtle movement, shifting the user’s role from controller to companion. By combining environmental sensing, biofeedback, and poetic motion, the project reimagines human–plant relationships as mutual and affective. It bridges digital interaction and living systems to foster empathy, responsibility, and a more tangible sense of coexistence. Final work Heartfelt Greenery Heartfelt Greenery is an interactive levitating plant device. It translates real-time environmental data—like humidity, temperature, light, and soil moisture—into intuitive feedback through a floating plant system. Rather than automating plant care, the aim is to encourage slower, more mindful interaction, fostering empathy between humans and non-verbal life forms. It’s built on ESP32 and Arduino microcontrollers and envisions applications in emotional well-being and ecological awareness. View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery Research and process Share this project Heartfelt Greenery is a levitating interactive plant system designed for people who struggle to care for plants or connect with nature in daily life. Using a magnetic suspension base, it elevates a real plant while monitoring environmental factors such as humidity, light, and ... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Futures Nature & Environment Being Human Biodesign Interaction InterpretativeDesign HumanCentredDesign AI Plants Ecology
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