Station · Route Creative Education
Talking Plant Sense translates plant abilities into a new, understandable language.
Not scientifically simplified, but sensually reinterpreted – so that plants can no longer be explained abstractly, but intuitively understood.
Central Question
How does our relationship with plants change when we don't explain their abilities, but instead make them tangible through language and the senses?
Background
Plants possess highly complex abilities to perceive light, touch, chemicals, vibrations, and other organisms.
The problem is not a lack of knowledge – but a lack of language. Scientific terms remain technical, abstract, and emotionally distant.
What we cannot name remains alien to us internally.
What we know
today
We have no everyday verbs for plant abilities.
Words are essential for understanding.
Without introduction, there is no relationship.
And without a relationship, there is no responsibility.
Goals
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Translating plant perception into sensory terms
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Using language as a key to empathy
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Prioritize perception over evaluation
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Renegotiating the relationship with plants
Compass
Studio BOXQ
Approach
Talking Plant Sense develops new terms that are based on human senses – without anthropomorphizing plants.
Words are bridges:
between science and everyday life
between knowledge and empathy,
between information and attitude.
Process
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Analysis of scientific descriptions of plant abilities
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Translation of technical terms into language that resonates with the senses.
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Collaborative word development (workshops, surveys, feedback)
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Discussion, rejection, refinement – deliberately open
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Selection and condensation into a consistent word system
Language here does not arise as an assertion, but as a negotiation.
The new words
Examples of developed terms:
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inlux – plant perception of light
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chemse – perception of chemical substances and signals
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phytact – reaction to touch and mechanical stimuli
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pervibe – perception of vibrations and oscillations
No metaphors.
No anthropomorphization.
But new linguistic tools.
Experience · VR / XR
Visitors experience the new words spatially. Not as text, but as a situation.
In the VR experience, inlux, chemse, pervibe and phytact can be physically experienced:
through movement, proximity, change, reaction & scents.
The concepts are not explained – they are understood because they are experienced.
Level of impact
Talking Plant Sense does not aim for short-term behavioral change.
It changes perception – and thus the basis for future decisions.
New language → new idea → new relationship.
Project Format
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interactive station
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Workshop-based or as an exhibition
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VR/XR module can be integrated optionally.
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Suitable for education, museums, festivals, public spaces