The project, a collaboration between Centre of Expertise Safe & Resilient Society
researcher Nina Kramer and CARADT researcher Sarah Lugthart, amongst others uses immersive storytelling to engage the public in co-creating future visions. Both researchers combine their expertise in art, design, technology, and built environments to challenge traditional approaches to societal structures and sustainability. By exploring how future inhabitants of the fictional city live in harmony with nature and technology, the project highlights key themes like resilience, ethical design, and compassionate communities.
Through Augmented Reality, 3D objects, generated images, gaming and immersive storytelling, visitors can engage with characters like Catriona, a New Canterbury resident, and reflect on the balance between technology and human values. The exhibition emphasizes the need for collaboration in shaping the future, not just from designers, but from the general public as well. One of the visitors mentioned that they left the exhibition with ‘more questions than answers, and plenty to think about.”
The stories of the eight citizens, based on roleplaying workshops as design method, can also be viewed in the following video (see video below or visit this YouTube link)
The exhibition was opened on Friday September 13th with an opening speech of Nina herself. Sarah Lugthart, Jochem van den Wijngaard, Rachel Kramer, Imane Chentouf, Antoin Linssen, Meike Veldhuijsen, Frederique Scholtes, Liselot Cobelens, Ingrid Janssen and Nienke Fabries joined this milestone, which also marks the end of this research project.
For more details about the project, visit New Canterbury Tales. The exhibition on display until October 27, 2024 and is free to enter at Stedelijk Museum Breda. Further information can be found on the museum’s website.
‘I’m interested in how we can implement situated learning within design education.’
Sarah Lugthart develops ethnographic methods to study immersive XR experiences and explores storytelling as a joint future-creation tool at Caradt. As a PhD candidate at the University of Porto, she blends theory and practice in immersive learning, contributing significantly to digital media and education.
Living in cities developed around data and acting within the inscrutable structure of our techno-society demands art and design that can help understand how we relate to these rapidly changing surroundings and to reflect on that relationship. The research group Situated Art and Design responds to this exigency by fostering a situated turn in art and design through a diverse portfolio of interdisciplinary research projects in partnership with academic and cultural partners, as well as with government and industry.
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