Investigating community engagement through Augmented Reality experiences. As a part of the Curiocity festival in Brisbane, this installation looked to understand how augmented reality could be used to deliver interactive experiences that fostered further community engagement in urban planning and decision making.

Future Cities for Future People was an installation created for the Curiocity festival in Brisbane, Australia. This festival looked to encourage engagement in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, maths) through public artworks. We developed a number of Augmented Reality games that hoped to engage communities in urban planning and showcase the possibilities for what future community engagement could look like. Our installation consisted of four different experiences - City Builder - We used Augmented Reality to display a virtual empty plot of land on a table. We then presented choices to the user and allowed them to create their own city through a series of choices. Each city would come out slightly unique depending on the choices that were made. Bridges for Experience - In partnership with Waldemar Jenek and the Bochum University of Applied Sciences, we created an experience that showcased a number of different Media Architecture student bridges virtually above a physical map of Brisbane river. Users could view these bridges and read about their design, similar to an experience in an art gallery. Urban Space - Inspired by Jan Gehl's book Cities for People (as can be seen by the title), this particular experience showcased a gallery style series of images in virtual space. Each of these images were from Brisbane city and demonstrated varying types of city scale. We then asked the user to try and decide whether the space was better for Cars, Humans or was a conflict of both. Future Portals - The final experience presented a virtual portal in the physical space. Users could walk through this portal and would be transported into a new virtual city. There was little interaction in this experience, but we wanted to demonstrate the possibilities of Augmented Reality and how this could be used to showcase potential future environments to citizens. All of these experiences were used to help investigate whether augmented reality could offer interactive experiences that would engage communities in urban decision making.

https://curiocitybrisbane.com/events/future-cities-for-future-people/

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Building or project owner : Michael Hunter

Project artist/ concept/ design/ planning : Michael Hunter

Project co-ordination : Michael Hunter

Interaction design/ programming : Joel Harman

Project sponsor/ support : Queensland University of Technology

Descriptions

Participatory architecture & urban interaction

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Michael Hunter

Michael Hunter

Michael Hunter

Michael Hunter

Michael Hunter

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