In collaboration with the Andy Warhol Museum Pop District and working closely with local Pittsburgh artists from marginalized communities, team members designed and developed a mobile augmented reality (AR) art gallery. Physically embedded in Pittsburgh’s Pop District, the prototype explores how immersive technology can create counterspaces that center the joy, rest, and healing of marginalized communities, including through art.    

The project team is iterating on the prototype for centering the art of marginalized artists in the Pittsburgh area, grounded in the physical space surrounding the Warhol. To co-design the prototype, the team adapted critical placemaking strategies to AR environment design and development.

This project is a collaboration between team members from The Center for Transformational Play and The Entertainment Technology Center.

Project Team
Erica Principe Cruz, Tarana Laroia, Glendon Guo, Haiyun Wu, Tiange Zhou, Lena Du, Chenguang Deng, Jiayu He, and Mo Mahler

Project Focus Area
Augmented Reality
Counterspaces

Platform
Mobile