Hoverstate

3D Printed Model City with Augmented Reality

This work presents a speculative vision of a future Brisbane, constructed through 3D printing and activated with augmented reality, the piece invites viewers to scan a QR code and reveal a layer of flying vehicles and digital infrastructure that hovers above and around the miniature metropolis.

Drawing on themes of retrofuturism, tropical modernism, and environmental precarity, the work reflects on how cities might adapt—or persevere—under the pressures of climate change and digital transformation. The “overgrown” form functions both literally and metaphorically: suspended in physical space, yet also caught between ecological crisis and techno-optimism, between memory and possibility.

By layering physical fabrication with digital augmentation, the work explores the dissonance and coexistence of real and simulated futures. It asks: can environmental resilience and post-human infrastructure coexist within the same imagined skyline?

This speculative landscape is not a blueprint, but a provocation—an open-ended meditation on urban survival, synthetic ecologies, and the architectures of tomorrow.