Shared Futures: Augmented Reality Planning is an innovative Belfast Interface Project programme that brings young people from across Belfast’s communities together to re-imagine the physical and social landscape of our city. Using cutting edge augmented reality technology, the project allows young people to digitally transform peace walls, gates, derelict land, and other barriers that have shaped community division for generations.

Through workshops, field visits, and AR design sessions, participants explore how these spaces could look in a shared future; opening gates, redesigning walls, reclaiming unused land, and modelling safer, more connected neighbourhoods. In doing so, they also begin to break down the social barriers and inherited divides that still exist between communities.

Shared Futures gives young people the tools to collaborate, create, and challenge the status quo. It empowers them to see beyond the physical structures of separation and to imagine a more vibrant, shared, and inclusive Belfast built by the generation who will inherit it.

In Partnership with Essex University.

This Project is funded by The Excutive Office (TEO).