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Rain Scribbler
DATE
02.2025 - 06.2025 
(5 months)

TEAM PROJECT  

/ Liki, Hsu            / Crutzen, Max
/ Kobes, Esmee       / Harish Ramanujam, Pranuv
/ Visch, Tobias

PROJECT TYPE

/ More-than-human design
/ Tangible Embodied Interaction






/ Material Experience
/ Data Visualization


Crafting Tangible Artifacts to Rekindle
Human and Nature Connections. People often overlook fleeting moments in nature, yet their enduring significance cannot be ignored. Rain Scribbler captures rainfall data—a symbol of nature’s dual forces of growth and destruction—and transforms it into tangible artifacts crafted from forest materials. 

Each artifact reflects the forest’s dynamic conditions, shaped by shifting seasons and the forest’s temporal variations. Through archiving these fleeting moments, Rain Scribbler invites us to reconnect with nature and ignites conversations that reimagine our relationship with the natural world.














The Concept of “ARCHIVE”
Inspired by how nature preserves its elements—such as seeds and tree rings—we conceptualized the idea of archiving fleeting moments in nature to rekindle relationships between humans and the non-human world. These iterations guided us from set additive manufacturing techniques to the creation of the Rain Scribbler, an interactive device that records rainfall data and transforms it into tangible visualizations.




Database collected by Rain Scribbler
The physical artifacts, the curved clay, are left in the forest to degrade over time naturally, reflecting the impermanence of the natural world. In contrast, the data collected is stored on a digital platform, providing a lasting record of the forest’s dynamic states over time. This dual approach, combining impermanence in the physical world with permanence in the digital realm, closely ties back to the core concept of "archive."





























     


   

Nature, Machines, and Designers:
Harmonizing Forces

This project demonstrates the interplay between nature, machines, and designers, highlighting how these facors can cooperate together in a more-than-human perspective. By situating the Rain Scribbler in the forest, the device becomes an extension of it, capturing the invisible dynamics of rainfall and translating them into tangible artifacts. 

Nature, as a collaborator, provides the data—rainfall—while machines act as mediators, translating this data into physical forms. Designers, in turn, orchestrate this process, balancing technical, material, and conceptual decisions to ensure the artifacts resonate with both the forest and its human audience. This triad of nature, machines, and designers reflects the essence of more-than-human design: fostering mutual understanding and interdependence between human and non-human entities.







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