Abstract

I often ask myself this question: How can we utilize technology to enhance humanity, to think differently, to offer new tools as catalysts to truly promote human's creativity and imagination?

In the past decade, the advancement of technology has made the social communication highly convenient and efficient. We have equipped ourselves with marvelous multitasking skills in our everyday lives, at the cost of constant distractions. We also risk the paradox of enhancing shallow interactions at the expense of deep ones. For majority of the population, life no longer fully exists in the physical world but is instead constituted by fragmented mental spaces (virtual spaces) through our digital devices. Even when our loved ones are just sitting right next to us.

While there's no surefire ways to fully alter people's behavior and bring the attention back to what truly matters. I do believe these projection mapping projects could serve as alternative assistive technologies that hold the potential to reignite people's enthusiasm for the physical world and invite them to immerse themselves more in the nature.

Through these attempts, I intend to survey how we can better utilize technology, particularly augmented reality, to amplify harmony with the natural world, and empower us, as humanity, to be able to look inward in order to look outward with greater clarity. Hopefully, one day, we might truly speak nature's language through the advancement of technology, creating a unique and uncanny communication channel that indeed deserves our undivided attention.