Kinfolk vs PickrickAR

In a time of book bans, cultural erasure, and monuments that still glorify oppression, Kinfolk offers a different kind of education — rooted in truth, powered by the people. Kinfolk is a platform for collective memory, built with and for our communities that have too often been excluded from the narrative. We use augmented reality technology, monuments, and storytelling to make history visible and alive, layered into the very spaces we inhabit. Features: - AR monuments that reveal hidden histories in public spaces - Guided Quests that lead you through curated storytelling experiences - Monuments Library to browse stories by theme and location - Community archives preserving cultural memory and lived experience - Interactive badges and achievements for deeper engagement - Immersive narratives that connect past, present, and future History isn't behind us. It's alive in us. Download Kinfolk and help reimagine how we remember.

We are exploring Augmented Reality as a way of making history visible in a location-based installation that recreates events that happened over 8 months in the 1960s, on a site that is now part of the Georgia Tech campus. On July 3 1964, the day after the Civil Rights Act was passed, George Willis, Jr, Albert L. Dunn, and Woodrow T. Lewis, all ministers and students at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, attempted to gain entry to the Pickrick restaurant a notorious bastion of resistance to integration. The events of that day became the basis of the first lawsuit brought under that Act, filed by the legendary Constance Baker Motley of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Over the next few months the owner of the restaurant, future Georgia governor Lester Maddox, tried renaming the restaurant and changing the signage to evade the legal process, but a rotating group of non-violent protesters risked violence at the hands of armed mobs in order to repeatedly demonstrate that the restaurant was acting in violation of the Civil Rights Act. They eventually forced Maddox to close and so that on February 23 1965 Jack Googer, who worked on Peachtree Street, was able to peacefully sit down to lunch in the now renamed Gateway Cafeteria. Soon after, the restaurant was bought by Georgia Tech, and after about 50 years of use as an administration building and a campus police station, it has now been torn down to make way for the Eco-Commons. Our project is an exercise in using Augmented Reality storytelling to make the invisible visible in two ways. First we are working to project the image of the building and animated recreations of the protests onto the very changed current landscape. Second, we are attempting to beyond the usual protagonist of the story – the segregationist fried chicken seller — to bring into the non-violent protesters into the foreground.