More-than-Human Sensing

The re-emergence projection installation invited visitors to participate directly in the gradual restoration of the dune ecosystem through their presence and collective gathering. Using motion sensors and projection mapping, the installation responded to bodies standing within the space: as a person approached, native dune species slowly began to emerge across the projected landscape. The longer someone remained, the more vegetation appeared. As additional people joined, the ecosystem thickened and diversified, allowing grasses, shrubs, flowers, and habitat-forming species to gradually re-establish themselves across the dunes.

The installation framed ecological restoration not as an abstract environmental process, but as a relational and collective act. Presence became participation. Gathering became ecological regeneration. Rather than presenting humans as separate from the landscape, the projection suggested that healing emerges through sustained relationships between bodies, land, time, and collective care.

At its core, the piece proposed that ecosystems strengthen not through isolated intervention alone, but through ongoing forms of reciprocity, attention, and shared stewardship.