Place-based Storytelling with Augmented Reality: An explorative study in Limerick City

As augmented reality technology becomes increasingly accessible to artists and designers, its scope expands to include the potential for multi-layered, place based visual narratives.  

Check the Instagram video: AR prototype for the old Mary St. Garda Station by @tamlyn_young

This project aims to produce and reflect upon a series of site specific, augmented reality artworks to be installed and experienced at selected sites in the city of Limerick. Each artwork will relate a story, an experience or a memory connected to the site.  The resulting artefacts will attempt to revitalise socio-culturally ‘invisible’ areas of the urban environment and to open dialogue among members of the community around ideas of Home and Sense of Place. 

By observing interactions between members of the public and the created artworks it will expand the body of knowledge around human-computer interaction in a combined physical-digital interaction space. Moreover, through the development of AR workflows, activities and workshops, it will create opportunities to expand the practice of practitioners across a range of disciplines including the Visual Arts, Graphic Design and Interaction Design.