Augmented Reality in creative practice

The wheelchair is often seen as an absence, be it a lack of activity, agency or health. From the perspective of the chair the absence is in society and how it enacts disability upon you. Society in the UK and Europe has decided it’s too expensive and unrealistic to guarantee access as a human right, be that through loose legislation or failure of enforcement. The design of our cities and spaces excludes and endangers wheelchair users. The lived experience of wheelchair users is one of constantly being told you do not belong by the spaces you move through. Wheeltrails is a wheel based digital street art project that creates a creative expression of the obstacles we experience in the spaces we move through. Put simply, a way to digitally graffiti the world and things that tells us we do not belong. It is a response to the disability created through badly design societies. We are running co-creation sessions and workshops asking questions around how to explore the aesthetic of wheelchair movement and start thinking how we can use this motion to create community built street art, which in turn can be created and performed in indoor spaces and venues, interjecting questions on disability, representation, access, and perceptions of activity. Our ultimate goal is to create adhoc performances with wheelchairs in places that exclude or fail to represent disability. Creating political work that makes the experiences of disability and its exclusion visible.