The entanglement of people, plants, and technology in office environments
Susan Loh · Queensland University of Technology · 2024
This thesis interrogates the current human-centric responses to using plants in buildings by investigating how people can engage with plants from a more-than-human perspective that does not consider plants as just decorative or utilitarian objects. A research-through-design methodology was used with a design intervention that enabled building occupants to care for technologically augmented pot plants in their office environment, thus enabling a more entangled relationship with the pot plant as co-inhabitant of the same space we share.