(De)Coloniality in the City: Emerging Traces through Augmented Reality | (De)Kolonialität in der Stadt: Auftauchende Spuren durch Augmented Reality

The integration of Augmented Reality (AR) into a complex urban experience has become easier and more accessible. This is the potential of this technology for postcolonial memory work in public space. Debates about colonial guilt and reparations, as well as the struggle over colonial monuments, can be made tangible through AR in urban space. This interdisciplinary project explores how AR can be used to visualize postcolonial perspectives and (de)colonial traces in urban space. To this end, participants will conceive, design and develop AR experiences. At the end of the project, selected results can be incorporated into an AR app that enables a pluralistic and participatory collective culture of remembrance.

Guest lecturers are Dr. Fabiola Arellano Cruz from the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Cologne and KISD graduate and former master student Byron Co. It is strongly recommended to choose this short-term project in conjunction with the academic seminar “(De)Coloniality in the City: Emerging Traces from Urban Spaces”.