(FEATURE WORKS) 9

Nguyen VO

CYCLE OF NATURE

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DOCUMENTING & INSTALLATION DESIGN

CREDIT TO:
Babette van Rijthoven, Chae Yeong Yoo, Emilia Miltenova, JuHyeon Ma, Quinty Robhin, Thao Nguyen Vo
Welcome to our "Cycle of Nature" 

- an interactive road map that tells a hopeful story about Nature and its relation with negative or positive human interaction. While we were walking at The Maas, trying to find research materials, we noticed the green trees next to the water and how different they looked compared to the ones further away. The water of The Maas got so high sometimes that it rinses away the sand around the roots, it almost looks like The Maas was making a portrait itself. Besides that, we saw some plastic objects in and around the Maas that humans threw in them. While we were walking beside The Maas, we saw that The Maas flushed away those objects and they got taken by nature around it. Nature grew something on it. And in all of these, we saw a clear cycle. There is The Maas, humans' negative interaction and nature's reaction to it. Objects turn into a new piece of Nature, and Nature restores itself, which leads us to the question: Will we help Nature and clean the plastic part around The Maas or will let Nature restores itself? 


This is a installation with each and every stand has a small story to tell.  While walking in the Cycle of Nature, there are some instructions to follow and some choices to make. Our algorithm is based on that instruction.




FIRST STAND  The first one is the sandbox which represents The Maas - the beginning of the story. The plant nurtured by The Maas would grow into trees






SECOND STAND Humans step in to have their interaction with Nature-The Maas either negatively or positively



THIRD STAND In the end, there is still a chance for them to take action by choosing between two cards and "grow" the card with or without the seeds back to the sandbox and the cycle remains 


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