Seeds of Tomorrow, interactive generative AI installation by Ronen Tanchum at WEF Tianjin 2025

Seeds of Tomorrow

Interactive Installation World Economic Forum, Tianjin 2025

Seeds of Tomorrow is an interactive AI ecosystem developed for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China. Participants plant virtual seeds that develop in response to human interaction, creating a shared digital garden over the duration of the event.

The installation accumulates participation over time. Visitor gestures, attention, and movement influence the growth of the ecosystem, so each contribution persists, changes, and becomes part of a larger field shaped by collective presence.

From a studio perspective, the project combines generative AI, interaction design, sensing, real-time rendering, and event-scale deployment. It turns a high-traffic institutional setting into a participatory ecology where the artwork is not completed at launch, but grows through use.

Short Description Seeds of Tomorrow - an interactive AI ecosystem for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin 2025, where visitor-planted virtual seeds accumulate into a shared evolving garden.
Long Description Seeds of Tomorrow is an interactive AI ecosystem developed for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China. Participants plant virtual seeds that develop in response to human interaction, creating a shared digital garden over the duration of the event.

The installation accumulates participation over time. Visitor gestures, attention, and movement influence the growth of the ecosystem, so each contribution persists, changes, and becomes part of a larger field shaped by collective presence.

From a studio perspective, the project combines generative AI, interaction design, sensing, real-time rendering, and event-scale deployment. It turns a high-traffic institutional setting into a participatory ecology where the artwork is not completed at launch, but grows through use.
Artist Ronen Tanchum
Location Tianjin, China
Year 2025
Partner World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions
Type Interactive AI ecosystem and public participation installation
Scale Multi-day conference installation accumulating visitor-generated organisms across the event duration
System Generative AI, interaction design, software system, persistent event-based ecosystem logic
Inputs Visitor gestures, movement, attention, and accumulated participation over the event duration
Runtime Event-scale installation designed for high-traffic public use, persistent state, on-site calibration, and daily operation
Studio Role Participatory system design, interaction flow, generative organism behavior, event runtime, and on-site calibration
Delivery Scope Concept, interaction system design, software development, on-site calibration
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