Plant Reality Set
从植物角度感知现实
Yuning Chen
PhD candidate in Biodesign, University of Edinburgh, MA from Royal College of Art & Imperial College IDE， is a passionate creative that enjoys the mind game of design and uses it as a tool to question the premises lying beneath the status quo. With a background in environmental science, she is always driven by translating the complex wisdom of nature into innovative solutions shaping a regenerative future.
爱丁堡大学生物设计博士候选人，皇家艺术学院&帝国理工IDE硕士，是一个充满激情的创作者，她喜欢设计的思维游戏，并用它作为工具来质疑现状之下的语境。她拥有环境科学背景，始终致力于将复杂的自然智慧转化为塑造可再生未来的创新解决方案。
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Plant Reality Set is a journey in search of an alternative worldview unbound by a human-centred perspective. Living in a perceptual reality shaped by our limited sensibilities, I can't help being curious about how the world is like from other species' eyes. If we could expand our spectrum of reality, would it also expand our spectrum of empathy?
Inspired by embodied cognition and sensory substitution models, Plant Reality Set is a set of wearables that take you to the world of a rooted organism. Being sessile, plants need to constantly sample and adapt to the minuscule environmental fluctuations, which results in a uniquely intimate relationship with the ecosystem. Wearing Plant Reality Set, you can attend to and harmonise with the flows of nature like a plant.
The set consists of three sensations, including Touch Symphony, the Taste of Light and Root Acoustic. Capturing a miniature of a plant’s essential perception, they also represent a gradual scaling-up process of sensing spaces while rooted in one place.
Plant Reality Set 是一段寻找另类世界观的旅程，不受人本观点的束缚。生活在一个由我们有限的情感塑造的感性现实中，我不禁好奇其他物种眼中的世界是什么样的。如果我们可以扩大我们的现实范围，它是否也会扩大我们的同理心范围？受具身认知和感官替代模型的启发，Plant Reality Set 是一组可穿戴设备，可带您进入有根有机体的世界。由于固着，植物需要不断地采样并适应微小的环境波动，从而与生态系统形成独特的密切关系。穿上Plant Reality Set，您可以像植物一样关注和协调自然的流动。该套装包括三种感觉，包括触摸交响乐、光的味道和根原声。捕捉植物基本感知的缩影，它们也代表了一个逐渐扩大的感知空间过程，同时植根于一个地方。
