Augmented Reality (AR)

Sourced imagery was collaged and stitched together to wrap the AR cartographic artwork’s façade, with multiple photographs of the neighbourhood reflecting data-driven themes and categories. AR allows for multiple interchangeable digital façades to be overlaid onto the same digital sculpture, enabling viewers to experience shifting perceptions through their devices. This interplay between reality and augmented reality, using stitched imagery to create a new version of a landmark, immerses the viewer in an intimate experience of place. The viewer engages with place as seen from multiple photographic perspectives and through the layered perspectives of the augmented surface itself, as well as the viewer’s physical perspective on the work as it is situated in the environment. These AR cartographic artworks of new landmarks can be strategically positioned throughout the neighbourhood and scaled to any size, either by placing them in the exact locations where the original photographs were taken or by introducing them as new landmarks to new places, enhancing one’s spatial awareness and sense of place through layered, site-specific interventions.