Grow Your Own Phone

Grow Your Own Phone is a critical design project that questions the form and function of the mobile phone. Rejecting trendy, small, sleek, shiny, rectangular mobile phone design, this interactive installation offers the same functions of a traditional mobile phone but within the confines of a garden.

The public are invited to grow in their idea of the mobile phone’s design by engaging with the digitized plants. Using flowers as buttons, individuals can control various screen-less mobile phone modules to make calls and send text messages.

Through envisioning this absurd alternative the project poses the question of what other mobile phone alternatives are possible.

The Grow Your Own Phone Python code is available on Github.