Reul

Framework

Art / Technology / Research

Medium

Augmented Reality

Built with

Unity / Google AR Foundation

Year

2020

Translating narratives into spatial experiences through augmented reality.

‘INVISIBLE CITIES — AR’ is a spatial reinterpretation of selected cities from the book Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino.

Developed as a research-driven initiative, the project aimed to explore the creative and narrative possibilities of augmented reality as a tool for communication—translating abstract concepts into experiences that can be perceived rather than described.

Framework

Art / Technology / Research

Medium

Augmented Reality

Built with

Unity / Google AR Foundation

Year

2020

Translating narratives into spatial experiences through augmented reality.

‘INVISIBLE CITIES — AR’ is a spatial reinterpretation of selected cities from the book Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino.

Framework

Art / Technology / Research

Medium

Augmented Reality

Built with

Unity / Google AR Foundation

Year

2020

Translating narratives into spatial experiences through augmented reality.

‘INVISIBLE CITIES — AR’ is a spatial reinterpretation of selected cities from the book Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino.

The Approach

Screens become the window to a previously undiscovered reality.

Calvino’s cities move beyond words and images, emerging as spatial experiences embedded within the physical world—inhabiting a new realm between the virtual and the real.

The device becomes a window into another layer of reality.

Through it, Calvino’s cities shift from description to experience—appearing as spatial fragments within the physical world.

Each interpretation reduces a city to a core idea: a gesture, a structure, or a rule.

The screen becomes a threshold. Through it, the cities stop being descriptions and begin to exist as spatial fragments—layered over the physical environment.

Tablets and mobile devices become the window to a previously undiscovered reality in which Calvino's cities cease to be represented merely as words and images and become entities of a new virtual realm.

The device becomes a window into another layer of reality.

Through it, Calvino’s cities shift from description to experience—appearing as spatial fragments within the physical world.

Each interpretation reduces a city to a core idea: a gesture, a structure, or a rule.

The screen becomes a threshold. Through it, the cities stop being descriptions and begin to exist as spatial fragments—layered over the physical environment.

The Cities

In the book, the dialogues between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan work as a guiding thread for the author to describe the different cities that the venetian merchant has visited throughout his travels.

These places are not real, but embody a timeless idea of ‘the city’ in which, each interpretation reduces a city to a core idea: a gesture, a structure, or a rule.

In the book, the dialogues between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan work as a guiding thread for the author to describe the different cities that the venetian merchant has visited throughout his travels.

These places are not real, but embody a timeless idea of ‘the city’ in which, each interpretation reduces a city to a core idea: a gesture, a structure, or a rule.

In the book, the dialogues between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan work as a guiding thread for the author to describe the different cities that the venetian merchant has visited throughout his travels.

These places are not real, but embody a timeless idea of ‘the city’ in which, each interpretation reduces a city to a core idea: a gesture, a structure, or a rule.

Zaira

«The city does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets.»