The RemediesAR project centers on the creation of an augmented reality (AR) memorial to São Paulo’s former Church of the Remedies, the headquarters of Brazil’s Underground Railroad in the 1880s and a museum dedicated to the enslaved from 1888 through the building’s demolition in 1942. A collective of artists, musicians, scholars, activists, and developers in Brazil and the U.S. is co-creating the narrative content, visual and sonic design, and user experience of the memorial through devising, a creative process in theater wherein the script is produced collectively through collaboration and improvisation. At the same time, the Remedies collective is investigating how cutting-edge uses of location-based AR (LBAR) can advance reparative racial justice in former slave societies like Brazil and the United States.
Ideation and prototyping support provided by the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts and UNC School of the Arts Office of the Provost.
Remedies Collective Members
- Lucas Almeida, União dos amigos da Capela dos Aflitos
- Michael Amoruso, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, Occidental College
- Fernando Atique, Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Federal University of São Paulo
- Luciana Barbosa, Research Technician, The Museum of Sacred Art of São Paulo
- Andrew G. Britt, Assistant Professor of Brazilian History and Digital Humanities, UNCSA
- Glaucea Helena de Britto, Artist and Curator, Museum of São Paulo Art
- Maria Helena Silva Britto, Ambassador of Samba Paulista and Terreirão Cultural
- Waldir Britto, Ambassador of Samba Paulista and Terreirão Cultural
- Tadeu Coelho, Musical Artist and Professor, UNCSA
- Luciana Alves Costa, Archeologist
- Naiane Costa, Archeologist
- Caróu Oliveira, Historian, História da Disputa: Disputa da História
- Luis Ferla, Director of Pauliceia 2.0 and Professor, Federal University of São Paulo
- Abilio Ferreira, Writer and Project Leader, Instituto Tebas
- Laila Garroni, Journalist, Actress, & Filmmaker
- Jeff Hammer, Producer and Assistant Professor, UNCSA
- Mark Jabourian, Visual Effects Artist and Videographer, UNCSA
- Bob Keen, Director of Visual Effects and Immersive Media, UNCSA
- Luca Kevorkian, Violinist
- Yasmine Lima, Research Technician, The Museum of Sacred Art of São Paulo
- Luanna Mendes do Nascimento, Undergraduate Student, Federal University of São Paulo
- Patrícia Oliveira, Independent Researcher
- Fernando Ripol, Co-Founder and Co-Leader, Samba do Congo
- Renata Siqueira, Architect and Urbanist
- Piero Tessaro, Archeologist and Doctoral Student, University of São Paulo
- Josanna Vaz, Actress Marina Zurita, Theater Maker and Director