Original Proposal

Call for proposals: http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/2011-call-for-proposals/

Project Title

Groworld Bazaar

Project description

A collection of projects exploring connections between plants and people. Imagined as an installation with plants, drawings, books, games - a space we can use for different purposes each day.

Current possibilities in this time frame:

• Augmented foraging phone app (Boskoi preview/test) http://transitlab.org/2010/augmented-foraging-cool-use-of-layar
• New groworld games developments, cultivating online social networks, taking on FarmVille: http://libarynth.org/red_leaf
• Plant sensing workshop, connecting physical gardens to game worlds http://www.pawfal.org/dave/blog/2010/03/plant-game-interface/
• Build your own pata-botanical world - history of imaginary plants
• Biomodd: update of the Biomodd game (with Twitter feed), short video clips, wall texts written by my Filipino team members, photomontages, maybe one compact case mod from a Biomodd Workshop http://www.biomodd.net
• Groworld Game presented via map (kind of network map) - connecting all our activities on one visual platform
• Seed Balling workshop + selection of mini plant guild you can take with you.

Key Words: plants permaculture gardening foraging human-plant-interfaces games electronics phone apps

Relevant links: http://fo.am/groworld http://fo.am/borrowed_scenery/