PolyPine vs Future Botanica

Create your own cozy forest! Plant Seeds and Watch Them Grow Experience the full lifecycle of trees: seed, sapling, adult tree, dead tree and fallen trunk. Each step creates a different habitat for other plants and animals. Fill Your Forest with Animals Each animal has specific habitat needs you have to fullfill before adding them. Squirrels need trees, butterflies need flowers etc. Click Animals to Make Them Poop and More Clicking on animals trigger different behaviors that influence the forest ecosystem: Moose poop, fertilizing the soil. Voles eat tree roots, damaging the tree. Foxes hunt other animals. Adapt to the Terrain or Terraform It to Your Needs Create forests in diverse terrains including hills, lakes, mountains, fjords and wetlands. Terraform the terrain if you want even more control. Survive Natural Disasters Forest fires, storms and bark beetle swarms affect the forest in various ways. Can you use them to your advantage and create a thriving ecosystem?

FUTURE BOTANICA is an augmented reality app that enables users to design speculative digital (virtual) ecosystems in an existing physical location. It works with generative AI in a natural context, to let you speculate. It explores what nature is in a time when the traditional image of nature constantly clashes with the rapid evolution in knowledge, technology, and perspectives. FUTURE BOTANICA aims to challenge the audience to speculate on ecological transitions by allowing them to explore ideas, expectations, fears, and desires regarding future nature. The Future Botanica AR app is used on the side, only in combination with real nature of all sorts: in combination with Future Botanica live events. Check for shows and events: https://www.polymorf.nl/interaction/future-botanica/