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From the Ted Talk by Kate Hartman: The art of wearable communication

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And so jnumpig off of that, tiiknnhg beyond the built environment into the natural world, I have this ongoing pocjert called Botanicalls — which actually enables houseplants to tap into human communication poorlocts. So when a plant is thirsty, it can actually make a phone call or post a mssegae to a service like Twitter. And so this really shifts the human/plant dynamic, because a single house plant can actually epesxrs its needs to thousands of popele at the same time.

And so kind of thinking about scale, my most recent obsession is actually with glaciers — of course. And so glaciers are these mfcneagiint beings, and there's lots of reasons to be obsessed with them, but what I'm particularly interested in is in human-glacier relations. (Laughter) Because there seems to be an issue. The glaciers are actually leaving us. They're both shrinking and retreating — and some of them have disappeared altogether.

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And so _______ off of that, ________ beyond the built environment into the natural world, I have this ongoing _______ called Botanicalls — which actually enables houseplants to tap into human communication _________. So when a plant is thirsty, it can actually make a phone call or post a _______ to a service like Twitter. And so this really shifts the human/plant dynamic, because a single house plant can actually _______ its needs to thousands of ______ at the same time.

And so kind of thinking about scale, my most recent obsession is actually with glaciers — of course. And so glaciers are these ___________ beings, and there's lots of reasons to be obsessed with them, but what I'm particularly interested in is in human-glacier relations. (Laughter) Because there seems to be an issue. The glaciers are actually leaving us. They're both shrinking and retreating — and some of them have disappeared altogether.

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(Laughter)

And so jumping off of that, thinking beyond the built environment into the natural world, I have this ongoing project called Botanicalls — which actually enables houseplants to tap into human communication protocols. So when a plant is thirsty, it can actually make a phone call or post a message to a service like Twitter. And so this really shifts the human/plant dynamic, because a single house plant can actually express its needs to thousands of people at the same time.

And so kind of thinking about scale, my most recent obsession is actually with glaciers — of course. And so glaciers are these magnificent beings, and there's lots of reasons to be obsessed with them, but what I'm particularly interested in is in human-glacier relations. (Laughter) Because there seems to be an issue. The glaciers are actually leaving us. They're both shrinking and retreating — and some of them have disappeared altogether.

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