Overview
Public history explores the ways in which history is “at work” in the world, and during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and protest movements, historical thinking shaped how our society collectively grappled with the events we faced: was the pandemic unprecedented, or could we chart a path to the public health response from the 1918 pandemic, or the AIDS crisis? Were the uprisings during the Summer of 2020 a part of an ongoing civil rights movement or a specific response to unique contemporary conditions? Designing augmented reality monuments gave students an opportunity to consider how their very recent and current experiences were a result of historical processes, and how they might remember them in the future — and at a more macro level, how we should all remember the tumultuous period we’re living through. The students’ monuments invite us to imagine a world in which we are able to see an expiration date for the pandemic, to step back far enough to ask ourselves what we’ve learned and felt, and what – and who – we have lost.
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1 – Please download the Adobe Aero app onto your mobile device.
2 – While viewing the individual AR project pages, download the available AR experience to your mobile device and follow the instructions.
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