:: how does it work?
The seed germinates as soon it comes into contact with water. This takes a while because the biodegradable protection capsule needs to degenerate a bit and allow the water to enter.

:: how do I plant it?
Just plant your mobile phone upright, covered with soil, no more than 2 cm deep. Keep it well-watered for four weeks until it sprouts. Then care for it as you would with any plant.

As an alternative discard mode, one can plant the phone. After few weeks, a flower sprouts from it.

:: why a mobile phone?
This thesis works on the theme of Appetite for Technology and approaches it by exploring how the designer influences and shapes people’s behaviors and their relationships with electronic objects. The mobile phone is a personal device and a modern technological fetish. It is an icon of the modern technologies in our daily life. Hence, it is an excellent product to use as a channel for experimentations for this kind of influence of design in consumer’s behaviors.

Your old mobile phone can become part of your garden.

:: why a seed?
A seed or a plant is one of the most obvious examples of how to take advantage of biodegradable materials, nourishing from them and processing them into new forms. At the same time, seeds are full of connotations and associated meanings. They are more then just a possibility for a beautiful flower in a vase. A seed symbolizes the carrier of a new life, a chance for change. In the case of Mobile.seed, the seed symbolizes the mobile phone returning to nature, closing a biological cycle, and the chance to raise interest in develop technological objects as partners in the process of looking for social and environmental well being.

Independent of the model, the seed is always visible.