The "Plant Adventures" is a permanent immersive exploration exhibition created by the Beijing Expo Park Botanical Pavilion in collaboration with the Arts and Technology Digital Art Agency. The digital exhibition reconstructs the evolutionary history of Earth's plants hundreds of millions of years ago, allowing visitors to engage with the stories of ancient plants and ecosystems through gamified interactive experiences. This case utilizes digital technology to promote cultural preservation and inheritance, targeting families and teenagers and establishing a new model for cultural dissemination.
The case aims to enhance public awareness of Chinese natural history and traditional culture, promote the integration of technology and culture, provide enjoyable educational resources, increase public participation and interactivity, and enhance the attractiveness and impact of the exhibition. The exhibition collaborates with archaeologists and botanists to delve deep into botanical knowledge, transforming it into vivid experiences. The exhibition employs gamified role- playing and task-oriented experiences within a narrative framework, featuring 3 major missions and 8 interactive scenes. Each scene integrates projection technology and interactive devices, accompanied by two intelligent cartoon mentors who guide visitors throughout. Through interaction with sensor cards, hidden clues are activated, allowing audiences to immerse themselves in a realistic historical environment and enhancing their learning experience through visual, auditory, and tactile sensations.
Within a 1000-square-meter space, the exhibition utilizes 50 projectors to create images exceeding 14K resolution and 100 million pixels. It incorporates 6 specially composed theme music tracks and 50 sound effects. Additionally, it establishes over 900 real-time interactive responses for 58 species of animals and plants. Emphasizing the integration of virtual and real elements, the exhibition incorporates augmented reality content into its displays of fossilized specimens, creating a lifelike ecological environment that vividly recreates the habitats of ancient plants and dinosaurs. The exhibition scenes allow visitors to touch and feel the textures and forms of ancient plants, enhancing their understanding and memory of the exhibition.
Since its operation in 2021, the exhibition has attracted nearly 100,000 visitors, including numerous schools and educational institutions conducting study tours. The exhibition provides educational materials to support in- depth study activities. Through hands-on participation, visitors gain vivid and profound insights into the fauna and flora, as well as the ecological environment of the significant Chinese archaeological discovery, the "Liaoning Jehol Biota. " They also experience immersive encounters with traditional Chinese art.
Relying on iterative upgrades of content and technology, the exhibition can maintain long-term vitality and appeal. By modifying the software, adding new scenes or species of plants and animals, and switching to other cultural themes, the exhibition content can be continuously updated. The digital exhibition supports replication in other locations, and a nationwide touring exhibition is also being planned.
The case has successfully pioneered a viable model combining culture and technology, innovating cultural display and educational approaches. Through innovative immersive and interactive experiences, the case effectively addresses pain points in preserving and inheriting culture and improving the dissemination of traditional culture and natural knowledge. Operational data demonstrates widespread public and educational institution appreciation for the case, enhancing public awareness and interest in preserving botanical cultural heritage and advancing the deep integration of culture and technology.
