With her augmented reality artwork “Gewächs aus Gelsen”, which is based on the idea of the Japanese wishing tree, Berline XR designer Ines Hilz has created an interactive artwork for the Places Festival that combines analog and digital elements. She was inspired by the creative will of the people in the district and their simultaneous focus on the future, which she noticed during her visit to the creative quarter in April.
Visitors can actively help shape the digital tree by writing their wishes and ideas for the city of Gelsenkirchen on one of the leaves with a pen – in completely analog form. What is your favorite place? What do you miss in Gelsenkirchen? What do you wish for the future of your city? These and other questions inspire visitors to capture their personal wishes for the future on the sheets of paper on display. The individual leaves are then digitized with a smartphone camera and hung on the digital tree by the artist, which can be admired as a digital sculpture in augmented reality in any room.
With every wish and every idea, the wish tree in AR grows a little more. However, it can not only be seen in AR, but also on its own website. This means that the tree is not only accessible worldwide as a piece of Ückendorf – everyone who has helped to shape the collective work of art can share their wish and all other wishes just as quickly and easily with the whole community.
With her augmented reality artwork “Gewächs aus Gelsen”, which is based on the idea of the Japanese wishing tree, Berline XR designer Ines Hilz has created an interactive artwork for the Places Festival that combines analog and digital elements. She was inspired by the creative will of the people in the district and their simultaneous focus on the future, which she noticed during her visit to the creative quarter in April.
Visitors can actively help shape the digital tree by writing their wishes and ideas for the city of Gelsenkirchen on one of the leaves with a pen – in completely analog form. What is your favorite place? What do you miss in Gelsenkirchen? What do you wish for the future of your city? These and other questions inspire visitors to capture their personal wishes for the future on the sheets of paper on display. The individual leaves are then digitized with a smartphone camera and hung on the digital tree by the artist, which can be admired as a digital sculpture in augmented reality in any room.
With every wish and every idea, the wish tree in AR grows a little more. However, it can not only be seen in AR, but also on its own website. This means that the tree is not only accessible worldwide as a piece of Ückendorf – everyone who has helped to shape the collective work of art can share their wish and all other wishes just as quickly and easily with the whole community.
