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What is Future Places Toolkit?

Future Places Toolkit is an engagement activity that offers you the chance to imagine the future of your public realm and uses technology to bring it to life.

Using Augmented Reality (like in Pokemon GO) and devices that allow you to see and hear through time (mobile phones), you will get to experience in situ the futures you want for a specific place. As we talk and come up with ideas together, what you imagine will appear around you, drawn over the buildings of today. Our app will allow you to see options that may already be planned for the area. You can explore what these ideas would be like, how people would use them, and make changes to the Augmented Reality illustrations. Using immersive audio, you'll get to hear what your future high street or public realm might sound like.

You can watch a video demo explaining the project HERE

Current projects

FILWOOD BROADWAY REGENERATION PROJECT

We are pleased to be part of multi-disciplinary team, led by Architecture 00, alongside George Lovesmith and Studio Mothership, working on Bristol City Council's High Street Delivery Plan: "Transforming Filwood Broadway'' in South Bristol.

We will be using Future Places Toolkit to engage the community of Filwood to imagine the future of their high street.

Recent activity

TEMPLE QUARTER REDEVELOPMENT, BRISTOL

Working with Bristol City Council's Temple Quarter Redevelopment team we ran 5 sessions of Future Places Toolkit consulting groups on the area around Temple Meads station and its new entrance. [Including sessions for school and college groups] We will continue to run sessions over the summer, engaging people in different areas of the TQ development.

FILWOOD BROADWAY, BRISTOL

Run as an engagement activity at 3 stages of planning process with Filwood Broadway Working Group and Bristol City Council, to support public consultation around improvements to the high street in Knowle West. Included series of workshops during Knowle West Fest in October 2022, engaging residents of all ages, such as the local Youth Council, supported by Knowle West Media Centre and Filwood Community Centre.

See video of 2023 creative consultation on the Broadway and demo at MyWorld showcase HERE.

BIRMINGHAM SETTLEMENT, NEIGHBOURHOOD FUTURES FESTIVAL

Last summer we collaborated with ESRC Centre of Sociodigial Futures and Birmingham Settlement to futher develop our work with communities. Future Places Toolkit was part of the Settlement's Neighbourhood Futures Festival to launch their 'Edgbaston Reservoir Nature and Wellbeing Centre'.

You can watch a short video HERE

Additional information

This enjoyable and entertaining activity is accessible to all and engages young and older people with consultation.

It takes place outside, lasts for approximately 45 minutes and is for 12 people at a time. It can take place multiple times in a day.

All the equipment is provided by Uninvited Guests and does not require participants to have any existing familiarity with technology.

Discussions are recorded and each session is documented visually in the form of an annotated illustration or panorama.

For further information about this project please email info@uninvited-guests.net