64 Ways of Being is an AR art trail made in Melbourne for Melbourne. Evoking the social, cultural and linguistic diversity of the city, it connects people with place through an inventive blend of performance, game design, and mobile technology.

Come along to a panel where panellists will discuss reimagining mobile technology as a space for mindful engagement with place, and the role of augmented reality and other creative technologies in embedding diverse stories, knowledges and memories into the world. Hear more how digital storytelling can be used to share memories of place through the themes of regenerative tourism, creative placemaking, and public art.

This new form of public art works with the city, using elements of it as creative material to create immersive journeys with everyday technology. Each AR trail was created through collaborations with artists, musicians, and communities, with each journey shaped by multiple voices. 64 Ways of Being aims to explore the creative, linguistic, cultural, social and urban diversity of Naarm/Melbourne through the entangled processes that have shaped it, from First Peoples custodianship to colonisation, environmental change, and migration.

Collaborators:

Dr Innocent connects people and place through urban play. Working with the city as a material, his work traverses the analog and digital spaces we live in. He calls his approach to speculative design ‘reworlding’ as it reimagines the creative, linguistic, cultural, social diversity of our world. Innocent is creator of 64 Ways of Being, an innovative augmented reality platform for listening, playing and exploring cities through new eyes, and leads a three-year study on post-pandemic impacts of creative placemaking.

Dr Diana Bossio‘s research focusses on social media, journalism and practices for digital participation and inclusion. She leads the Digital Inclusion Program at Swinburne’s Social Innovation Research Institute. She is the lead author of: The Paradox of Connection: How Digital Media Are Transforming Journalistic Labor (Illinois University Press, 2023), Journalism and Social Media: Practitioners, Organisations, Institutions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and co-editor of Social Media and the Politics of Reportage: The Arab Spring (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). She has published over 30 research articles in journals such as Journalism, Digital Journalism, Continuum and Media International Australia.

Dr Aramiha Harwood is a Māori Ngāpuhi writer, researcher and gamer who grew up in Country Victoria. He publishes Tabletop games (through Mana Press) with a focus on indigenous concepts of mana and narrative storytelling. His research has involved a diverse range of topics: identity theory and agency, cultural precincts, international education and student wellbeing, Māori diaspora, and the role of Place and Gaming in Indigenous knowledge/s. He is a Research Fellow at RMIT School of Design and Social Context, working on the Play About Place Linkage project.

Clair Korobacz is a theatre creative and co-artistic director of one step at a time like this. Employing an expanded notion of theatre, one step create location-responsive works and audience-centric works, seeking out novel forms of audience engagement via the use of inventive performative platforms – digital, live, and innovative blends. Recent works include: en route, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Singapore International Festival of Arts; Nocturne, Vivid Sydney; Sea Inside, Dansearena Nord, Norway; Carnival of Futures, Arts House; upsidedowninsideout, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Culture Station Seoul, Arts Centre Melbourne; Immergence, Situations UK; Since I Suppose, OZ Arts, Nashville, Melbourne Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.