Saving Plant

Michael Braun – Christina Diewald – Alexander Schenker – Isabel Schönewald – Anh Vu

The Saving Plant can be described as a living savings box. When the plant is bought, it gets preconfigured. For that, you determine a savings target and a space of time. To reach this target you have to drop a specific sum of euros into the plant every day, which guarantees the plant’s water supply. In our example the necessary sum is 2 Euros, depending on the preconfigured values. If no money is dropped in for 4 days, the plant will die. The top of the plant is covered to avoid watering in the normal way (without dropping in money). It also contains a hole to fill up the water tank and a display which shows the progress. When the savings target is reached, the plant pot gets unlocked and it is possible to extract the money and the plant.

 

To stay informed about the plant and your process of saving money, you get a personal URL. This leads you to a website which shows the health of the plant, the savings target, the progress and the remaining time. Furthermore, you are able to reset the values and get a new plant.