SXSW 2025
Reclamation City: A Digital Twin Project
Description:
Reclamation is a collaboration between Arizona State University’s program on Narrative and Emerging Media, alongside LA Trade Tech Architecture and Environment Design, Professor Marcela Oliva, XR/AI Creative Producer & Strategist, Kathleen Cohen, the California Dept. of Transportation/Caltrans, and local agencies. Reclamation City is a project that trains community partners and surrounding neighborhoods to create and implement digital twins, uses the designs to transform blighted urban areas into immersive green spaces, and provides long-lasting workforce skills for a more, "just future".
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Takeaways
- Real world impact alongside communities using virtual and immersive technologies.
- Learning the virtuous cycle of a real world built environment that is digitally twinned in-world, to re-inform & reclaim a new, biofield environment.
- Addressing key human interventions by teaching, implementing, deploying, nurturing and establishing an open source, workflow pipeline.
Speakers
- Kathleen Cohen, XR/AI Strategist, Tech Humanist, The Collaboratorium, Inc.
- Nonny de la Pena, Program Director, ASU Narrative and Emerging Media Program
- Marcela Oliva, Program Head, LA Trade Tech College - Architecture & Environmental Design
- Ryat Yezbick, Learning Resources Specialist, ASU Narrative & Emerging Media
Organizer
Kathleen Cohen, XR, AI Strategist, Tech Humanist, The Collaboratorium, Inc.
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