Co-creating Future: Augmented Reality As Crystal Ball

virtual event; open to mentees, mentors, program alum, and woman-identifying, trans*, and gender-expansive members of the public.

Our reliance on various software applications to manage our everyday life is next level—from when we wake up to when we go to bed. Software even divines our future using patterns based on fixed algorithms, all the while lacking an understanding and consideration of any personal, complex, or challenging life situations. Divination is a vital cultural practice worldwide, providing communities with self-exploration, perspective, problem-solving, and healing. How can the art of divination, or fortune-telling, guide us to rethink software as a system of healing, and how can we use software to develop healing tools?

Inspired by the I Ching, an ancient text of Chinese wisdom and the world’s oldest oracle, artist and educator Zhenzhen Qi takes us through a variety of cultural divination practices to collectively design new or alternative patterns for fortune-telling. As a group, using the software development environment Lens Studio, we will code these patterns into a Snapchat AR filter to develop our own fortune-telling software experience. No prior software design or development experience is needed!