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A growing need for environmental awareness requires sensitive strategies to help us rethink the
way interactions transform our habitat. This work proposes a musical approach to nourishing the
bonds between elementary-school students and nature. Since plants and humans experience
life in very different time frames, humans might mistakenly perceive plants as quiet and
motionless living-beings. The ability to sense elements of their surroundings to which we are
unaware of, makes plants invaluable allies towards a more conscious relationship with the
planet we share. This work proposes that music has the potential to intermediate these
interactions and provide meaningful experiences to the young participants by bringing to
common ground digital technology, music and plants. Using sensors to collect data from the
plant’s environment we shape musical features over time, encouraging children care of their
own plant as it blossoms into its matured “musical form”. In addition, sound events might be
triggered to reward positive behavior in the classroom. Students split responsibility for the plant
assigned to their desk, which stimulates cooperation and companionship. Each individual plant
then becomes part of and contributes to its class and school musical.
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Plants Education Music Sonification Ecology
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Universidade Católica Portuguesa