ReciproCare is a speculative community rehabilitation system that explores how recovery can extend beyond hospitals into everyday life. The project responds to the growing gap between acute medical treatment and long-term post-discharge rehabilitation, where patients are often left to manage repetitive and emotionally demanding recovery processes with limited community support.

The proposal reimagines rehabilitation as a reciprocal relationship between humans, plants, and the surrounding environment. Rather than treating nature as passive decoration, plants become active participants within the recovery journey, responding to patients’ rehabilitation activities through ecological feedback such as growth, environmental change, and sensory interaction. This allows patients to perceive their recovery progress not only through clinical metrics, but through visible and living systems that evolve alongside them.

Combining service design, interaction design, and therapeutic spatial design, ReciproCare introduces a community-based rehabilitation environment that bridges hospital discharge and home recovery. The system integrates physical, respiratory, cognitive, and psychological rehabilitation programmes within plant-supported spaces, creating a slower, less institutional, and more emotionally supportive recovery experience.

Through reciprocal feedback loops, environmental data, and long-term engagement with ecological systems, the project aims to transform rehabilitation from a repetitive medical routine into a shared process of co-growth. By doing so, ReciproCare explores a future healthcare model where personal wellbeing, community support, and biological systems are deeply interconnected.