Sensing Nature

Sensing Nature is a multisensory, interactive virtual reality installation designed to energize, relax, and enhance human well-being and connection to nature. Through touching different textures, participants unlock cascades of flowers, spatial nature-inspired sounds, and vibrations, which evolved overtime. Each individual's experience is totally unique; they see, hear, and feel the energy of natural growth.

Created by Tianyuan Zhang, Wei Lin
Music composed by Joe Hunt, with Susanna Roman (cello), Rory Masterson (violin), and Leo Parry (trumpet).
Creative Technologist: Hankun Yu, Dingye Zhang
Producers and Executive Producers : Zillah Watson & Katie Grayson
Academic supervisors: Marco Gillies, Xueni Pan
Technical support by Zhichen Gu, Nicholas Donald
Additionally, we are grateful to all those who provided valuable feedback and assistance.

Innovate UK ImmersiveUK Tech Awards 2025 - Sensory Winner
ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS) 2025- Pictorial,Funchal, Madeira 5-9 July 2025
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3715336.3735424
Exhibited in Funchal, Madeira 7-9 July 2025
New hub, new chapter for Computing at Goldsmiths, 23th Feb 2026

ACM Interactions November - December 2025- REAWAKENING SENSIBILITY TO THE MORE THAN HUMAN