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    Digit Soil Membrane-Soil-Interface

    Investigation of a novel membrane-soil-interface's critical features for Digit Soil’s monitoring device

    Institut für Designforschung (IDE)

    Duy Bui

    Soil is a precious limited resource providing us with food and water. It is also a main actor that drives the planetary ecosystem. But soil health is in decline, posing challenges for our environment and our society. Based on Digit Soil’s novel sensor that consist of a material membrane and an integrated reader, we are developing a soil interface to monitor, maintain and restore soil health. Our goal in this pilot study is to investigate the feasibility of a material-based human-soil-interface and create tools and methods to interface the microbial in the field, rather than in the lab.

    Soil is a precious limited resource providing us with food and clean water. It is also a main actor that drives the planetary ecosystem. But soil health is in decline, posing challenges for our environment and our society.

    Together with Digit Soil AG, we are developing a novel soil interface to monitor, maintain and restore soil health. A novel sensor consists of a material membrane and an integrated reader. The material reacts to soil enzyme activity in-situ.Our goal in this pilot study is to asses the feasibility of such material-based human-soil-interface and its use in the field.

    Various prototypes will be developed and iterated on to investigate the core question if a material membrane is suitable for different types of soils and soil textures. Furthermore, we will identify further research directions and possible guidelines for in-field use. This project also paves the way for designers and artists to interface the microbial in the field, rather than in the lab.

    Details

    • Research Focus
      • FRIAD Interaction Design
    • Project Lead
      • Karmen Franinovic (FRIAD)
      • Hélène Iven (Digit Soil)
    • Team
      • Duy Bui (FRIAD)
      • Laurin Schaffner (FRID)
      • Forschung N.N. (Digit Soil)
    • Cooperations
      • Hélène Iven, Digit Soil
      • Sonia Meller, Digit Soil
    • Duration

      01.04. – 31.07.2022

    • Financing
      • Innosuisse - Schweizerische Agentur für Innovationsförderung, Vorstudie Innovationscheck (01.04. – 31.07.2022)
    • Research Approaches
      • Applied research
      • Artistic-scientific research
    • Disciplines

      Design

    • Keywords

      Prototyping, soil ecologies, ecological interface, embodied interaction, digit-soil, Field Research, Interaction Design

    Output

    • Vorträge, Referate

      Bui, Duy & Schaffner, Laurin (2023): «Microbes-Soil-Human Interfaces: Designing for the Field Interactions». Interaction23 Konferenz. Öffentliche Präsentation der Forschungsergebnisse im Rahmen der Interaction23 Konferenz. 01.03.2023–03.03.2023. Kongresshaus Zürich, Zürich. Online unter: https://interaction23.ixda.org.

    • Lehrveranstaltungen / Weiterbildungsangebote

      Bui, Duy & Franinović, Karmen (2022): «MA Design Studio 1: Culturing the Uncultured». Modul MA Interaction Design. Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Erstdurchführung: 01.03.2022. 01.03.2022–03.05.2022, HS 2022.