Growing Riversiders

Growing Riversiders is a part-digital part-physical participatory project involving 100 families from a new urban development in London – Barking Riverside collaboratively growing a large-scale plant-based installation that represents their collective identity for the new neighbourhood. Intere

Playing Democracy

Playing Democracy is a giant multiplayer game of Pong, exploring the principles of democracy. Exhibited at: Barbican (UK), Zebrastraat (BE), Somerset House (UK)Awards: Finalists’ Award for Asia Digital Art Award Fukuoka 2022 (ADAA) Interactive Arts Category, Shortlisted for Zebrastraat New Technol

Climate Exploration Cookbook

Climate Exploration Cookbook is a participatory project that combines data science, digital technology, cooking, and food to help diverse communities to make sense of issues surrounding climate change through their food culture, cooking, and eating habits. The project explores people’s subjective

SUPERMOMENTS

SUPERMOMENTS is an outdoor interactive participatory performance using wearable technology that draws in members of the public to explore people’s personal agency, empathy, and collective actions towards changing the urban environment we live in. Interested to host SUPERMOMENTS? Visit supermoments

Pollution Explorers

Pollution Explorers is a participatory project in which people make sense of the quality of air in their environment through their innate subjective perception using wearable technology and machine learning, with the aim to harness collective actions to improve air quality in neighbourhoods. Wo

SUPERGESTURES

SUPERGESTURES is a participatory project co-created with young people across Manchester, UK which explores the relationship between a smart city agenda and the impact it has on people’s everyday lives using wearable technology. Exhibited at: Future Session 2018, FutureFest 2018, Revo Manchest

SUPERPOWER! Johannesburg

In SUPERPOWER! Johannesburg, we asked students from the University of Johannesburg to consider their role as both the future generation and designers of their city. Participants worked in groups to design and carry out data collection surrounding people’s perception of public safety in the city. I

Digital SUPERPOWER! Romania

Digital SUPERPOWER! Romania is a participatory project that explores how people make sense of their built environment during the COVID19 pandemic and the impact it has on their collective well-being through the use of digital technology. Interested to collaborate or host SUPERPOWER! in your city? Vi

SUPERPOWER! Mombasa

As part of the annual African Crossroads, we invite a group of African womxn (women including transgender women) to take part in a 3 days long data collection that focuses on issues that affect womxn in African cities, in this case, gender representation in conferences. We asked them, “Does the st

SUPERPOWER! Liverpool

SUPERPOWER! Liverpool challenges students with low self esteem to express themselves through performing alternative empowering personas with the use of wearable technology, encouraging young children to break out of their comfort zones. Interested to collaborate or host SUPERPOWER! in your city? Vis

SUPERPOWER! Finsbury Park

SUPERPOWER Finsbury Park brings together young women from different walks of life to discuss their relationship with the city. The project explores the ability for technology to bring about female empowerment, and question our role as a female in regards to decision making about our city. Interested

WearAQ

WearAQ combines people’s subjective perception of their environment with wearable technology and machine learning algorithms to investigate our personal agency and responsibility in tackling air quality issues. Project’s Lead Designer at Umbrellium Presented at: Mutek Festival 2017,

Fakugesi Social Wearables

Fak’ugesi Social Wearables explores how residents of Johannesburg, South Africa perceive their experience of safety in the city through the use of wearable technology as a tool for a community to record their relationship with the city. Interested to collaborate or host SUPERPOW

Transformer

Transformer is a game of strategy structured as a social experiment in team building where participants engage in a competitive game that involves heightened self-awareness and proprioception mediated through body tracking sensors, visual perception and audio actuators. Exhibited in: Barbican Weeken