The Flower of your Attention – Noticing is already enough for a Change
B.A. thesis & project by:
Ekaterina Vorobeva
Project Categories:
New Media, Tangible Interaction, Exhibition Design
Thesis Advisors
Prof. Henrik Rieß, Prof. Alexander Tibus
Project Advisors:
Prof. Henrik Rieß, Felix Müller, M.A.
Research Question:
In which ways can Meta Platforms balance information transparency and potentially harmful content posted by journalist media?
'The Flower of your Attention' is an interactive installation that connects digital attention to a physical presence. Visitors browse a newsfeed filled with stories of war, disaster, and crisis, while their reading habits and visual choices are silently tracked.
A single flower on the table quietly responds: rising when the reader engages with difficult news, fading when they scroll past and look away. The living object translates an invisible, everyday act – paying or withdrawing attention – into a gesture that can be witnessed.
Rather than moralising about doomscrolling or news avoidance, the installation makes a quieter proposition: that attention itself is a form of responsibility – and that noticing is already the beginning of change.
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