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.

Join our Opening Ceremony 6/23

Partner with us

Launching During FIFA World Cup,
STAYing for the community until September.
Join our free ar tours, workshops, events, and more!

How it Works
35+ Drops. 18+ ARtworks
“Arches to Clock Tower” 2.5 mile path.

Click to Explore our Wayfinder PIlot

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

Follow the path from either Pacific Science Center (North) to King Street Station (South), or the other way around.

Stopping at the epicenter of 3rd & Pine to discover a giant waterfall cascading from the skybridge into the streets of Seattle.

Bring friends to an AR Tour, starting end of June.

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.