ART 160 002/CY PLAN 190 002: Ghosts and Visions: Using augmented reality and physical installations to tell history and envision futures

George Floyd mural at beach

ART 160 002/CY PLAN 190 002
Spring 2021, 4 units, humanities studio course
Instructor: Susan Moffat

In this Humanities Studio course students researched local histories and used methods that included installations in public space, augmented reality, and audio storytelling to convey what students learned. The study site is an old shoreline landfill called the Albany Bulb, and students investigated both the site itself and use it as a vista point to consider histories including Ohlone land use, 19th-century dynamite manufacturing, World War II industry, global container shipping, and Bay Area unhoused communities.  Students did archival research and considered questions of the best technologies–or non-technologies–to use to reveal the past and point to better futures. Students engaged in collaborative group work and created work that will be used by the general public.

Student work:
Monuments to Extraction : Walking California History at the Albany Bulb