Graduation project
Garden of Elysium
Anders Juul Jørgensen
## “We need connect with our surroundings to better understand our own footprint.”
Mankind needs a spiritual transformation to tackle properties like selfishness, greed and apathy, which keep us from solving climate change. ‘Garden of Elysium’ is a spiritual Virtual Reality experience, aimed at making the viewer reflect on his environmental footprint. The viewer sits in a Zen garden with comforting sounds, flowers and running water. In this Garden of Eden, one is rewarded for one’s calmness, with the surroundings reflecting the user’s meditative journey. Only when the user breaks the meditation and starts to explore the virtual landscape will the surroundings begin to emanate a more dystopian feeling. This new environmentalist experience aims to spawn a meditative state to resist desires that damage the environment