Big Botany, Big Ideas, Sara Taliaferro; Rachel Straughn-Navarro

Credit line: A large touchscreen shows an interactive experience with diagrams and illustrations. Major concepts from the exhibition are explained for visitors who are botany novices and connected back to the art in the galleries. Sections are browsed via touch navigation and content can be manipulated in multiple ways. There are four major sections of the interface: "Botany Basics" discusses photosynthesis, pollination, and types of plants. "Plants & Us" highlights plants as a food source and climate change. "Plants & Art" includes "Plants in Motion," a series of YouTube videos that combine science, math, and art, and "Seeing Plants in Art" in which visitors can browse photographs of specific plant species and see them illustrated in the exhibition, and a section on botanical illustrations. "Beyond Botany" addresses botanically related concepts including lichens, fungi, pollinators, water, light, and air.