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Future Collider
AR to allow anyone to create future cityscape in their neighbourhood
2020
Summary
What are the next signs of change?
Future Collider is an artistic research project that looks at newly emerging signs and billboards in the city as a signal of social change. In order to create alternate local futurities, we invite citizens around the world to create speculative signs from the future that will be placed in our city via an augmented reality app. Signages in the city capture our desires through billboard advertisements and represent our societal restrictions through signs. In this project we use these signs as a starting point to develop a method to co-create a future through design and research. The project uses a web AR application that allows users to attach 3D models of fictional signs to walls and the ground. Workshops are held in cities around the world, inviting residents to co-create future signs and billboards through fieldwork, which results in a new 3D model that gets added to the application.
Future Colliderは近い将来に存在するかもしれない架空の看板や標識を、現実にARで設置することを通して都市の未来を共同で試作/思索する市民参加型のプロジェクトです。いつの時代であっても街の中にある看板や屋外広告は人々の潜在的な欲望を捉え、標識は社会に存在する制約やルールを示してきました。Future Colliderはこのような看板や標識を起点に、みんなで都市の未来を考えていきます。本サイトから起動できるウェブARのアプリケーションでは架空の看板の3Dモデルを壁や地面に取り付けることができます。世界中の都市で開催されるFuture Colliderのワークショップでは、実際に近隣の住民を招き、彼らとともにフィールドワークを通して地域の未来に根ざした看板や標識を共同で制作し、このウェブARのアプリケーションに追加していきます。
AR web app : https://future-collider.com/
Ideas from the participants are turned into AR signs during the workshop
Exhibitions
Futures In-sight @ 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo — 2021.12.21 - 2022.05.22
New Horizon @ Arts Maebashi, Maebashi — 2023.10.14 - 2024.02.12
In Maebashi City, pioneering efforts are underway to introduce AI technology into public spaces, such as buses that use facial recognition to identify passengers. As Maebashi City takes the lead in these experiments in Japan, it invites us to ponder: how will our daily lives in the city change when these technologies are fully adopted?This exhibit invites visitors to reflect on how we, as urban residents, can coexist with cutting-edge technologies like AI. Utilizing AR, you can place signs that seem to have come from the future of Maebashi around this area. The exhibition encourages visitors to draw on worksheets, ideating possible signs that might emerge in the future. These ideas not only might become new signs and billboards in AR, but they might also serve as a catalyst for forging a harmonious relationship between us and technology.
顔認証によって乗客の顔を識別する自動運転のバスなど、前橋市は公共空間にAI技術を 導入する実験を日本でも先駆けて行っています。前橋でのこの展示はこれらの最先端の技術が街に導入された時に、私たちの暮らしはどのように変わるのかを考えるための場として企画されました。専用のwebアプリを利用すると、ARを使って未来の標識を現在の景観の中に組み込み、 その街並みを体感できます。また、来場者のみなさんはご自身の想像する「将来できるかもしれない標識」のアイデアをワークシートに描いて投稿することができます。そこで生まれたアイデアをもとに、期間中に新しいARの標識や看板が追加されていきます。これらを通じて、私たちと新しい技術の望ましい関係性を考えていきます。
photo by Shinya Kogure
Press Coverage
2023 10.14 - 2024 2.12
Rotterdam | Thingscon 2022 Summer Edition
2021 12.20 - 2022 05.08
Tokyo | Futures In-sight @ 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT
2021 10.16-17
Matsudo | Matsudo International Science Art Festival
2021 09.26
Amsterdam | Transformer Summit @ Waag
Press Coverage
Asahi Newspaper » 最先端の技術とアートを融合 松戸で国際フェス - 朝日新聞
Credits
Research, design, development : Tomo Kihara
[Credits for Arts Maebashi Exhibition]
Curation : Yuka Takahashi / Takenori Miyamoto
Interior Design : Tomohiro Okada
Display Structure Design : Masaru Yanai
Film : Akira Kawachi
Editorial Support : Kou Shirayone