ICT For Urban Heritage: Palermo

A co-design workshop ↗ in Palermo to envision the future of an abandoned warehouse, serving as the first field test for my dissertation research on propositional modeling. I designed two competing architectural proposals (conservative and radical) and used my AR platform, Wikar, to allow local stakeholders to view them on-site. By testing the proposals at different scales (a 1:500 map vs. 1:1 walkthroughs), the process surfaced the community's deep attachment to the site's recent, unwritten history as a local park. This visualization work made their tacit knowledge empirically grounded, and the feedback directly informed the final design, which preserved the area as a public plaza.