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Life & fun · April 5, 2017

Building Grove, interactive biofeedback trees you breathe into

Building Grove, interactive biofeedback trees you breathe into launched on April 5, 2017 with 47 votes, #642 of 3,007 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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In plain words

Building Grove is a set of interactive biofeedback trees that respond to a user's breathing. Created by Samuel Clay, a Harvard design and engineering graduate student, the project combines physical interaction with real-time biometric feedback. Grove invites users to engage with living installations that visualize and respond to their breath patterns, offering a novel way to explore the connection between body awareness and environmental interaction.

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From the sources

Samuel Clay is a grad student in the schools of design and of engineering at Harvard. He founded NewsBlur , a personal RSS news reader, and Turn Touch , beautiful control for the smart home. He lives in San Francisco, California. In another life in New York, he worked at the New York Times on DocumentCloud , an open-source repository of primary source documents contributed by journalists. You can read about his past and present projects at samuelclay.com . You can email Samuel at [email protected] . He loves receiving email from new people. Who doesn't? Grove is a set of 10 interactive biofeedback sculptures, a conversation between humans and trees. Each tree is made of steel tubes,…from ofbrooklyn.com

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