Botanicus Interacticus: Interactive Plant Technology. Disney Research, Pittsburgh Botanicus Interacticus is a technology for designing highly expressive interactive plants, both living and artificial.
Driven by the rapid fusion of computing and living spaces, we take interaction from computing devices and places it in the physical world using livings plants as an interactive medium. Botanicus Interacticus has a number of unique properties. What a Plant Knows with Daniel Chamovitz. Geoengineering - Our Last Hope, or a False Promise? TMU: Tree Hugging Now Scientifically Validated. It has been recently scientifically validated that hugging trees is good for you.
Research has shown that you don’t even have to touch a tree to get better, you just need to be within its vicinity has a beneficial effect. In a recently published book, Blinded by Science, the author Matthew Silverstone, proves scientifically that trees do in fact improve many health issues such as concentration levels, reaction times, depression, stress and other various forms of mental illness. Build as Nature Does Using Genius of Biome Report. HOK partnered with Biomimicry 3.8 to study how lessons from the temperate broadleaf forest biome, which houses many of the world’s largest population centers, can inform the design of the built environment.
The result, Genius of Biome, is a highly visual report filled with insightful design strategies and sketches, application ideas and supporting research. Does the forest hold the answers to sustainable design? Genius of Biome describes the strategies and designs adopted by living organisms found in the temperate broadleaf forest biome.