Zoe - Prepare your scene

Overview - Sustainable Farming

Creating the environment

Working with Interactive Objects

Programming with Interactions

Guiding the user through the experience

Do you know emerging or ancient sustainable ways of planting?

Introduce the 3 sisters system and ask students to research about it. 

Where does it come from?
Are there different versions of it?

Each group of students or each student does a presentation about what he/she found and what they thought was most interesting to them and why. Q&A

Ask students to imagine an experience explaining / showcasing the 3 sisters system. 

Constrain: there is a drawing somewhere in the experience as a diagram that users can base themselves on.

-> outcome of this step is an Interactive Experience Poster and a diagram about the 3 sisters

Create necessary assets for the experience: the diagram will be part of the experience, and if students are comfortable creating 3d models (using Google Blocks or any other) they can also model their own assets. Otherwise we provide them inside the package.

Place assets, create the scene with the basic environment

Invite students to test their experience at every significant step in order to adjust interactions, position of assets, sounds etc. Check on every group the progress and be a user tester for them so they can improve their creations.

At some point also make other groups test the other’s experiences and give feedback. Make sure feedback is constructive always mentioning positive points and suggesting improvements.

Repeat the 3 sub-processes until the experience is polished.

As soon as the experience is done it is time for a larger audience to live it.

You can invite the whole classroom to test their creations. 

Important here is that other groups learn about sustainable farming by playing the different experiences.

If necessary you can evaluate what students learned from other groups creations, as a final wrap-up on the different topics that were raised during the creation and testing of the experiences. For example you can ask them about the three sisters, about how plants work and help each other, about natural systems in general, if they were inspired to plant their own food...

Zoe_SustainableFarming.unitypackage.zip

"Zoe for Unity" is a no-code plugin allowing you to create interactive VR experiences. In this tutorial we are going to reproduce an ancient and sustainable planting system called the “Three Sisters”. 

Scenario:  You find yourself in an abandoned farm. Some objects and structures of a native tribe remain there. You see a sign with a diagram called “The Legend of the three sisters” and a box on a wooden bench . As you discover what is inside the box you realise you will have to wake up the spirit of the three sisters by reproducing an ancient system of planting that will bring back life to your farm.

Creating a Sustainable Farming Training Experience with Zoe 

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A training experience about sustainable farming

Sustainable Farming Experience - Zoe for Unity

Overview of what the Sustainable Farming Experience looks like when finished and the concepts you will learn.

The experience you are going to build shows the user how the "Three Sisters" planting system works. It is an ancient and sustainable way of planting in which the plants work in synergy helping each other while growing.

In this experience the user gets familiar with the system through a diagram. Seeds of every plant are available and the goal is to plant them in the right order and position to accomplish the configuration required for the system.

Inside the package of the tutorial you can find the final experience ( _SustainableFarmingFull), you can double-click on it and play it. This is what the experience looks like:

Overview - Sustainable Farming

1. A training experience about sustainable farming

Complete this tutorial