Future Places Toolkit
Re-imagining Filwood Broadway using an augmented reality experience.
About:
In the summer of 2021, the Come Together artist cohort joined local residents on Filwood Broadway to re-imagine the space using an augmented reality (AR) experience which forms part of the ‘Future Places Toolkit’ created by Uninvited Guests.
As the locals described their vision for Filwood Broadway, illustrations would appear on their mobile devices as if inside the street. These hybrid tools helped them to vision change virtually while viewing the space in person, allowing them to picture everything from ‘’more community benches’’ to ‘’hoverboards’’.
We were able to bring along some of the Come Together artist cohort virtually using a Proxy Protest harness. The cohort could watch the tools working via Zoom and join discussions with local residents.
“To a Bristol-specific sci-fi soundtrack, participants were encouraged to think about how the city and world beyond Knowle West might differ, and to visualise the buildings around them changing”
“When addressing the issue of connecting the city centre and Bristol’s Metrobus to Filwood Community Centre, one group conceived autonomous solar-powered pods and another a Knowle West narrow-gauge railway run by local volunteers.”
“In this case, the focus of our imagining would be on redesigning the public realm to make it more liveable beyond COVID-19, reclaiming streets for people rather than cars and enabling traffic evaporation.”
Paul Clarke in ‘Tools for Imagining Future Places’ pages 28-32.
Watch a prototype of Future Places Toolkit…
Watch a talk about the development of Future Places Toolkit…
Project Credits:
Photos by Jon Aitkin, Boudewijn Bollmann, and Michele Panegrossi. Animations and live illustrations by Sam Steer, with live sketches in Filwood by Andy Council and Camille Aubry.
Uninvited Guests is a collaborative research project by Paul Clarke, Jessica Hoffmann and Richard Dufty.
They created entertaining and provocative theatrical experiences that explore urgent social, cultural and political ideas.
The work is often characterised by the way it asks audiences to get involved, putting stories, dreams, memories, loves or frustrations at its heart. Using new technologies, they tell stories and re-imagine the world, and the way we reflect on our past to think about the future.
Uninvited Guests are residents of the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol and have been supported by Arts Council England, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Jerwood Charitable Foundation, The Arts Patrons Trust and The British Council.
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