Future Arts Way is a
2.5 mile interactive walking path through Downtown Seattle.

Augmented reality rooted in community stories that inspire, educate, and connect visitors and locals to business, histories, and futures reimagined & mapped back on to the land.

*Image is produced with AI representing the interactive way someone would experience the artwork and some of the thematic explorations. This does not represent the exact community & artist driven content that will be stewarded. We use AI with intention, please email us with any comments or concerns, we welcome dialogue around this new tool.

Launching During FIFA World Cup,
STAYing for the community until end of the year.

Changing Seattle’s History

With a projected 500K+ people coming through Seattle for World Cup, it is is a rare moment to reclaim our city as a cultural, arts, and innovation leader in the world’s eye, not just a technology hub.

We aim to create meaningful storytelling with technology that uplifts local community stories untold. Technology will be shown as a tool to unearth important stories, bring commerce to local businesses, while engaging with a unique, interactive open air gallery walking path.

How it Works

Click to Explore our Wayfinder

“I know where to go and how to get there”
Take our your phone. Open a custom designed, curated map of Downtown Seattle. Follow the journey from the North Trailhead to the South Trailhead alongside businesses - check out the AR story and go inside the business to engage with what our vibrant Seattle community stories have to offer.
"I’m learning about Seattle’s culture both physically and digitally”
We are installing 10-20 vinyl launchpads alongside a clearly marked path, on sidewalks and storefronts of curated community businesses and art spaces. Local Coast Salish histories and futures co-created through community gatherings & Afrofuturism - themed stories will open when you scan a QR code at each stop.
“The largest AR artwork in the world is in Seattle”
Follow the path to the epicenter of 3rd and pine to find the corner building wrapped in vinyl. Beautiful Afrocentric and Coast Salish themed ethnobotany blooms out of it. A waterfall flows back onto the land, filling the streets with healing waters.

Meet the Team

Alina Nazmeeva

ARTIST
Alex Kosnett

Ecologist
Divine Ndemeye

Artist
Alexis Eggertsen

Artist, Music Director
Ashanti Davis

Curator, Production Partner
Katharina Brinschwitz

Production Coordinator
Gabriel-Bello Díaz

Artist & Community Manager
Jose Gabriel Contreras

Creative Technologist
Yuliya Bruk

Creative Producer, Future Arts Founder
Our Creative & Production Team is Growing

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*Image is produced with AI representing the interactive way someone would experience the artwork and some of the thematic explorations. This does not represent the community & artist driven content that will be stewarded Fall 2026. We use AI with intention, please email us with any comments or concerns, we welcome dialogue around this new tool.

A Mixed Reality XR Installation at 3rd & Pine, Seattle and across Downtown Seattle.

Blending Coast Salish flora and fauna knowledge, Afrofuturism, and Pacific Northwest ecologies, this artwork reimagines our relationship with nature through ancestral wisdom and multi-sensory storytelling.

Inspired by previously created Future Arts projects and local community research, like Divine Ndemeye’s Parasitic Healing Bath (2023) and Alina Nazmeeva’s Currents AR salmon run (2022, 2024), this installation builds on Ndemeye’s plant-based ethnobotanical designs and symbologies stewarded with local Coast Salish ethnobotanist and artist Bri Castilleja with salmon migration visuals by Alina Nazmeeva and Alex Kosnett. In this iteration, gatherings with local Coast Salish stewards and additional communities historically “othered” will be held to continue building an entire new world rooted in historic stories and futuristic hopes and dreams. Together with soundscapes led by local musician and multimedia artist Alexis Eggertsen, OTHER EARTH becomes a portal of healing, celebration, and ecological reconnection to ancestry and Indigeneity of any passerby, while grounding in the local waterways and buried ethnobotanical histories beneath downtown Seattle.

At its core, OTHER EARTH reclaims the word “Other” as a source of strength and vision. It uplifts Indigenous, Black, diasporic, and non-Western perspectives—historically “othered”, offering a space where difference is celebrated, and biodiversity means a strong earth that leans on each other. Rooted in regeneration, resilience, and Nature as Queen, this work invites the public into a vibrant future of stewardship, radical abundance, and vibrant possibility.

Curatorial Theme: Other Earth 2026

THE VINYL LAUNCHPADS:
A Model for Community Building & Sponsorships

Our project is partnering with local community business and arts centers to highlight vibrant stories that have historically been othered using our interactive wayfinder to learn more about the business and discover Downtown Seattle differently.

Each participating business will become a dedicated AR Launchpad location, installed on the sidewalk near their enterence or in their storefront.

Being a stop on the map is free and offers technology companies and any businesses an opportunity to sponsor a location. If you're interested in sponsoring a location, please join us! There are limited amount of slots.