GowanusAR is a location-based augmented reality app focusing on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn New York, a post-industrial Superfund site now under high rise development.    

Something about the Gowanus invites the projection of images, abject or visionary:
—past and future visions of urbanist designers dreaming up recombinative solutions for living differently
—the vision of layers of history paved over
—the Salt Marsh and its human and non-human inhabitants, immigrant histories, the hydrology itself
—the visions of environmentalists, artists, residents and activists continuing their work for restored urban wetlands
—the visions of development solidifying into the bright new face of Gowanus, amid ongoing pollution

 GowanusAR overlays futurist, historical and dystopian visions as layers of history, contemporary stories, hybrid ecologies, and streams of information on the changing location in an immersive, accessible way, easily available through the smart phone.

THE GOWANUS AUGMENTED REALITY TOUR APP TEAM
Sarah Drury, Project Director
Lucas Wozniak, XR Designer
Guy Barash, Composer
Alma Hutter, Research
The Gowanus Augmented Reality Walking Tour has been funded in part by Wave Farm Media Arts Assistance Fund; Brooklyn Arts Council; the Puffin Foundation, NY/NJ Harbor and Estuary Program; and Temple University.

For project updates:
https://www.instagram.com/gowanusar