Catching and Collecting in the Dinosaur Forest
Catching and Collecting in the Dinosaur Forest
An educational project in which people use their bodies to Explore, Discover, and Research, Gather Knowledge, and Expand their Curiosity.
Prehistoric animals that have already gone extinct live in this dinosaur forest. When you move close to the animals or touch them, they will run away or turn to face you.
When you use the smartphone's camera to look at an animal moving in the space, and release a Research Eye at the animal in the camera’s view, the eye flies out from the phone into the real space. When the Research Eye reaches the animal, that animal disappears from the space and is added to the smartphone collection. Information about the animals you catch will be stored in the app’s collection book. When you swipe a captured animal towards a location you can see in the app’s camera, the animal is released and returns to that location.
You can also throw a Research Net at your feet to catch animals. Work together with those around you, use your body to drive animals into the Research Net to capture them, and watch as they disappear from the space and, at the same time, appear in your collection book.
The more you capture the same animal, the more detailed information you can record in your collection book.