Final project description: 

• I want to construct artificial, small-scale futuristic ecosystem under the scenario when synthetic biotic organisms are largely penetrated in human beings’ daily life.
• This ecosystem will trigger interactions between human and simulated biotic organisms to raise a discussion of individual bio existence and the ecosystem at a large scale.
• The interaction between audiences and this project should be indirect, which can echo the key concept for this project- A system that humans are party to, but not sovereign over.

Interaction/systems diagram:

Timeline with milestones: 

week 1 (4/3-4/8)- basic functionality

• Communication between Arduino and  unity
• Projection mapping visual test
• Decision making: materials, project scales
• Modeling the possible form of plants

week 2 (4/9-4/15)- Prototype

• robotic plants prototype
• project set up prototype
• User test

week 3(4/16-4/22)- Iterations

• modify the detail based on feedback
• building circuits

week 4(4/23-4/30)-  Finalize

• check the detailed implementation of project based on the exhibition place, equipment
• troubleshooting physical computing part
• polish the final project form

Precedents: 

EPIPHYTE CHAMBER by Philip Beesley

UNMAKEABLELOVE by Sarah Kenderdine & Jeffrey Shaw

petting zoo by minimaforms

sensory desserts by Erika Marthin 

 Synthetic Polleniser  by Michael Candy