Future Botanica is an interactive project that encourages you to think about future nature. Using an app on your phone, you can create new plants, creatures and ecologies based on different future scenarios, together with other people and an AI.

What is nature, and how do we, as (Western) humans, relate to it? The fundamental image of nature constantly clashes with the rapid evolution in knowledge, technology, and ideas about it. FUTURE BOTANICA is an Augmented Reality app that enables users, in collaboration with an AI, to design speculative ecosystems with new nature. These virtual ecosystems are then planted into the existing physical nature, allowing exploration of ideas, expectations, fears, and desires regarding future nature. Users experience that any addition or alteration to an ecosystem affects the functioning of the entire ecosystem. With Future Botanica, we aim to challenge our audience to speculate on the transitions ahead. By collecting and sharing stories and ideas from different people and generations, new perspectives emerge, acting as a time capsule for the future.

Created by POLYMORF 
Directed by Marcel van Brakel and Hazal Ertürkan
Future Botanica is a Polymorf and Studio Biarritz production"

Creative producer: Marcel van Brakel | Polymorf.
Co-producer: Studio Biarritz | Corine Meijers. 
Sound design, music & installation: Mark Meeuwenoord.
Development & AI integration: Luciano Pinna.
Unity development & AR integration: Daan Hobbel. 
Science integration: Hazal Ertürkan.
Graphic design: Daniël Maarleveld.
3D design: Ashley Haagsma, Petr Tiurin.
3D design & animation: Hauke Boer.
AI & design research: Sacha Holzken.
Sales and partnerships: Marieke Nooren.