H.O.R.T.U.S.

H.O.R.T.U.S engages the notions of urban renewable energy and agriculture through a new gardening prototype. Fitted with ambient light sensing technologies and a custom designed virtual interface, H.O.R.T.U.S stimulates the emergence of novel material practices and related spatial narratives. The project can described as a proto-garden that hosts micro and macro-algal organisms as well as bioluminescent bacteria. Users engage daily with H.O.R.T.U.S inventing new protocols of urban bio-gardening; as algal organisms require CO2 to grow, visitors were invited to contribute by blowing air inside the various containers [photo-bioreactors] as well as adjust their nutrients’ content; oxygen is released as a result, feeding the other organisms in the “briccole” and in the room. Information flowing daily through H.O.R.T.U.S feeds its emergent virtual garden, accessible via smart phones.
 * Project Name:** H.O.R.T.U.S.
 * Project Credits:** ecoLogicStudio
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