Human-Centred AI Systems to Inspire Swansea City Residents to Engage in Creative Placemaking

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The project aims to surprise and disrupt Swansea resident expectations - to reveal the creative life of the city centre in unexpected ways. The project will be successful as it illustrates how creativity, technology and commerce are interdependent. Examples of the kind of work this might involve include: a generative digital sound art installation that changes according to the way the public move in and around a space and how they interact with each another; digital walls and augmented reality to create an immersive space that can bealtered and affected by social interaction; lighting, temporary surfaces, sound, play - as well as events and traditional audience style presentations/performances.The following are high level aims. An Experience Centre that enables visitors to explore words, movement and visual arts though different interactive modes, including the digital. A data enabled approach to considering "engagement" that goes beyond footfall/visitor numbers and instead looks at how people experience culture and produce new interactive city spaces in the process A digitally empowered network of local artists and visitors who create and share work throughout the city via public screens.This project will involve intensive engagement with citizens, artists, City and County officers and many others. The project will be shaped by their needs and values. Specifically (i) we will follow the ESPRC's Framework for Responsible Innovation (ii) City and County already have processes for citizen engagement which will be adopted where possible. Additionally, the project can embed responsible innovation principles via an advisory project board that includes all stakeholders; periodic open forums with stakeholders and Swansea residents; and by using appropriate tools to share research findings and solicit feedback from a diverse group of stakeholders and Swansea residentsThe ProposalThe goal of "something magical for visitors" would guide the public engagement aspects of the project and their role in creative placemaking. The project as currently envisaged would be structured as discrete experiments that use technologies to surprise and delight users in order to better understand how and why people engage both with and in Swansea's culturalspaces. Part of these experiments will include a site-specific Experience Centre, a space where visitors engage with art-based technologies and activities. The research questions therefore will emerge from the practice of building, deploying and testing.Example HCI domains the project will cover include:Interactive Screens1. Review of existing of existing responsive screen software/hardware used in retail or exhibition2. Review of selected references that are relevant to Swansea3. Prototype screen installation(s) for deployment within Swansea and engagement data gatheringDigital Generative Art4. Review of existing of existing state-of -the-art public facing digital and generative art used in major international cities and/or galleries5. Review of selected reference cases for digital and generative arts that are most relevant to Swansea6. Prototype generative art installation(s) for deployment within Swansea and engagement data gatheringThis project connects with the ongoing one led by Anna Carter (Cohort 1) and joint meetings will be held to ensure complementarity.