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Students walk across the campus north. A large red sculpture in the shape of large gears can be seen. © Roland Baege​/​TU Dortmund

The NEXT.IN.NRW project “flowAR” has been started at the Chair of Digital Transformation.

Poster vom Projekt mit dem Text "Aufblühen kollektiver Kreativität in physisch und digital agierenden Communities durch Erstellung von immersiven Augmented-Reality-Objekten" © Lehrstuhl Digitale Transformation​/​TU Dortmund
Forschungsprojekt flowAR
How can physical and digital communities work together to design immersive art installations and bring them to life in order to draw attention to socially relevant issues? This is the question addressed by the research project funded by the EFRE/JTF program NRW 2021-2027 and the European Union: NEXT.IN.NRW-Project „flowAR: Blossoming of collective creativity in physically and digitally active communities through the creation of immersive augmented reality objects“.

The research and development project flowAR was launched at the Chair of Digital Transformation. The research project explores how immersive technologies such as augmented reality (AR) can redesign collaborative art installations in a nature-oriented context. The focus is on a user-centered AR authoring tool that enables non-experts to make their own creative contributions to immersive art installations. 

The aim is to create new forms of participatory art in public spaces - low-threshold, inclusive and ecologically sensitizing. flowAR pursues a user-centered approach and investigates the conditions under which digital and physical communities participate in co-creative processes, what motivates them to remain engaged in the long term and how these processes can be meaningfully supported by digital tools.

The interdisciplinary consortium consists of six project partners from academia and practice. Our chair is leading the consortium for this research project. The funded project partners are the Chair of Interactive Systems at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Prof. Prilla), Northdochs GmbH, Digital Culture as part of the City of Dortmund, IGA Metropole Ruhr 2027 gGmbH, and TNL GmbH.

The project duration is 36 months from 06.2025 to 05.2028.

We are very much looking forward to an exciting and, above all, creative next three years.

You can find more information on the project website.

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