You will launch your sustainable plant art project by meeting real community members who grow plants or work with natural-fiber clothing. Through workshops, interviews, and structured empathy mapping, you will gather direct quotes and observations that reveal authentic needs around sustainability, plant use, and textile choices. By the end of this phase, you will have completed an evidence-based empathy map grounded in at least two real user conversations, forming the foundation for your design work.

You will synthesize your nursery, garden, and sustainable clothing interviews into a clear, evidence-based problem statement that defines who you are designing for and what real sustainability need your plant art project will address.

You will generate many possible solutions for your sustainable plant art project before choosing one direction. Using your real user interviews and 'How Might We' statement, you will explore creative ways to design pressed-flower clothing, plant-labeled art, and interactive sustainability displays that truly meet community needs. By the end of this phase, you will have clear concept sketches and a storyboard for 2–3 strong ideas grounded in user evidence and ready for prototyping.

You will move from quick, low-fidelity experiments to a refined wearable pressed-flower prototype on natural-fiber fabric. You will test your ideas with real users, document what they say and do, and revise your design based on evidence. By the end of this phase, you will have a higher-fidelity prototype and a detailed iteration log showing how user feedback shaped your decisions.

You will validate your refined pressed-flower fashion prototypes with new users, document final feedback, and present your full design journey—from plant science and sustainability research to iterative prototype testing—at a community exhibition booth.