World Wider Lab: Organic Cinema

Connecting Cities: Participatory City 2014

WORLD WILDER LAB (BASED IN LONDON, ROTTERDAM AND RIO DE JANEIRO)
ORGANIC CINEMA, 2014

Plants, bacteria and millions of other living entities surround us all the time and are vital to our well being. However, they exist in such a way that not both their behaviour, and their very existence, constantly escapes human perception. What if we could see and hear what plants and microorganisms “talk about”? What if we could pick up on their inaudible whispers -the signals that all plant life generates in response to environmental stimuli- and make them not only audible but also visible?
By using the latest sensory technologies, World Wilder Lab explore how local flora and fauna reacts to various input from their immediate environment. Through visuals generated from real time data, taken from the plant life’s reactions to the world around them, the collective aim to empower these organisms and give vegetation a voice.
The collective will then communicate their findings, and the visualisations, using facades as part of The Participatory City, inspiring passers-by audience to look at plants from different viewpoint and discover their hidden lives. Rather than seeing plants as merely beautiful natural decoration which provides a backdrop to human activity, World Wilder Lab want to encourage people to look at plants as an integral and very dynamic part of our ecosystem, vital to not only our lives, but to our whole structure of existence.

Film by Xar Lee