An exhibit about roots
at the Saint Louis Science Center
Beneath our feet, roots expand, explore, sense, and interact with their surroundings.
Roots anchor growing plants, transport water and nutrients between sky and soil, store and distribute life-giving carbon, and communicate with neighbors via chemical signals. Through complex networks, roots and trillions of tiny nearby organisms shape the plants and soil that support our daily lives.
I worked with Science Center colleagues to create an exhibit known as “Root Towers,” where visitors open doors of steel planter boxes to explore the hidden half of plant life and learn more about current root research. In addition to exhibit development, I led prototyping efforts, created illustrations, coordinated additional art production, wrote label text, worked closely with our graphic designer to align messaging with the 2D and 3D experience, created marketing illustrations and content, and developed relationships with local and global scientists.
Each colorful cluster of towers interprets a different root function.
Concept sketch, used for marketing purposes.
The steel towers' varying heights help visitors imagine the diversity of root depths and types.
I'm investigating the first "section intro" graphic to get printed.
I created illustrations of roots to interpret their functions and structures at a micro-scale.
