Paul Clarke

Paul’s work:

During the Fellowship, I set out to explore whether approaches from Billennium could be applied in real-world planning consultations.

I started with the questions:

• Can science-fiction storytelling and Augmented Reality (AR) inspire people to imagine preferable, more inclusive futures for their places together?

• Can interactive performance engage a wider range of people in discussing plans for their neighbourhoods, and are these conversations more effective in the sites that are being redeveloped?

In response, I have been developing Future Places Toolkit, a set of Augmented Reality facilitation tools for neighbourhood visioning, participatory planning and community-led consultation. I am interested in whether digital tools can help people participate actively as citizens in creating, visualising and communicating ideas for shaping their places: doing “social dreaming” together about what kind of futures they want (Dunne and Raby 2013).