Client: Naturhistorisches Museum Bern, queo XR

"Life is relationship: The 'Nature Lab' at the Natural History Museum in Bern invites visitors to experiment, discuss, and playfully engage with the interconnections in nature. The main component of the interactive exhibition is the arena, where visitors from the age of 8 can immerse themselves in the fascinating world of the natural network.

In what relationship do living beings stand to each other, who benefits from whom, and who is in a competitive situation with whom?

Each organism employs different strategies to utilize a habitat, find food, protect offspring, and survive. Every living being is always interconnected with others and is part of the highly complex and often very sensitive ecosystem. Visitors explore various habitats at a digital station and manipulate them through targeted changes. In exploration mode, they can delve deeper and discover how different organisms relate to each other. It becomes clear that even seemingly small interventions in nature can negatively impact the network. Conversely, minor adjustments have the power to achieve positive effects. Creatively and playfully, visitors eventually realize that in nature, there are no judgments and no distinction between 'useful' or 'useless'.