Future Arts Way is a 2.5+ mile interactive AR trail through Downtown Seattle.

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

Future Tech. Human Arts.

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Launching During FIFA World Cup, staying until September.
Join our free AR tours (tbd), workshops, events, and more!

How it Works
Start from North or South.
Find 35+ Drops with 23 ARtworks on a “Arches to Clock Tower” 2.5+ mile urban trail

Click to View Wayfinder

“The largest AR artwork trail in the world is in Seattle!”

Find a friend & follow the path from either Pacific Science Center Courtyard (North) to King Street Station (South), or the other way around.

Stop at the epicenter of 3rd & Pine to discover a giant waterfall cascading from the skybridge into the streets of Seattle.
“23 artworks, No downloads (well, except 3)”
Take our your phone. Find your blue dot. Scan vinyl drop and view AR story. Click next and find the next one! Powered by google maps, easy to follow and find the next one.

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”
Find 35+ drop shaped vinyls 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.

Curatorial Theme:
Other Earth 2026

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.

The Vinyl “AR DROPS” Launchpads:
A Model for Community Building & Commerce

Our project is partnering with local community business and arts centers to highlight vibrant stories of emerging arts institutions and community business partners 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 entrance 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.

Being part of this process felt like building something collective and alive. Each person brought their own way of seeing, and together it became something none of us could have created alone. It reminded me that the best work comes from being in good relation with each other. Just like the salmonberry.

—Valerie Segrest
Throughout this project, all of us artists coming from multiple different cultures came together to create beauty, to support each other, and to help shine a light in what we are capable of doing as peoples. May our art show the world the many facets we each have and be a blessing towards our ancestors.

—Nychelle Schneider
To create work at this scale during a moment like the World Cup is powerful. There’s global attention on the city, and we’re using that moment to center voices that are often overlooked. We are using technology not as spectacle, but as a tool for visibility, connection, and cultural continuity.

—GÄBO
I have loved engaging with technology to activate physical places and hope that this work will bring people a unique immersive healing experience.

—Lys Divine Ndemeye
Walking into a room of indigenous artists who all practice different forms of art was such a fun experience. Being in the room and hearing their stories, looking up their work, and bouncing ideas off each other gave me a sense of connection that is hard to come by as a solo artist.

—Lu AfterBuffalo
My original vision — a giant crocheted cockle clam incorporating Lushootseed language — blossomed into a fully interactive learning game thanks to our brilliant AR team. Seeing everyone’s creativity build on the initial idea made the project far more impactful than I imagined.

—Azure Bleu Boure