Between Drops

吳 冠儒 / Kuan-Ju Wu, 筧 康明 / Yasuaki Kakehi 協力: 倪 文浩 / Wen-Hao Ni

《Between Drops》は、「待つこと」から始まります。天井の氷は次第に薄くなり、やがて自ら手放す瞬間を選びます。ためらうように落ちた一滴は、遠くの池の映像が映し出された面へと当たり、水と光を一瞬だけゆがめます。その衝撃は伝わり、池は小さな水しぶきと波紋によって応答します。出来事は同期せず、滴は感知され、送られ、遅延と揺らぎをまとって再び戻ってきます。関係はその「あいだ」に立ち現れ、時間そのものが距離を渡る場となります。

Human – nature engagement in HCI is often mediated through visual representations, environmental data streams, or immersive simulations. This paper explores an alternative approach: connecting distant sites through shared material transformation rather than representation. Grounded in a Research through Design process spanning long-term autoethnographic dwelling with a backyard pond and subsequent feral deployment, we present Between Drops, a cross-site installation linking two bodies of water. In the gallery, melting droplets fall onto a water-absorbing projection surface; each impact is sensed and transmitted to a remote pond, where a fountain responds. Visitors may intercept droplets, making the connection conditional rather than guaranteed. Through discrete physical events, the installation frames remote nature engagement as transformation across distance while preserving environmental autonomy.