IDEATION

Design Thought

A lot of new, fancy buildings started to sprout up, and majorities of people think it’s a good thing. Since the city is becoming better and better. More and more middle-class people started to move into the neighthood because the good neighborhood but cheap price. However, people see the neighborhood becoming better but forget about people who were force to move out and became homeless.Thus, I’m trying to find a way to show people the real situation and start action.

GOOD DEVELOPMENT? BAD EFFECTS?

Proposal

When you are intreseted in a graffti in brooklyn stuyvesant area, you could take out your phone and scan it to get more information about how the street look like before.This will give you a sense of how the area has developed and what development has it went through in these years.

Final Concept

A lot of people only see the development of the city, but ignored the bad side of it. The culture of the area is fading. The traditional brown-stone building is fading and trasit into modern high-rise building which is more profitable to developers.

There are fixed AR devices on the streets, you could connect your phone with the device and start your advanture exploring this area. You could adjust the time yourself to get a different views of the same street. Every site you have been will be count as one star and you can use the star to access to the final site.

In the final site, you can unlock new AR using the stars you have collected. You can see a contrast in this AR view. Instead of seeing the development of the city, you will see more behind this development- The people who become homeless after the gentrification.