SkidsharAR is an app that shares storytelling through augmented reality and is part of Rethinking Roughnecks: Gender and Energy in 20th and 21st century Alberta. It is presented alongside an exhibit at the Canadian Energy Museum in Devon, Alberta.
In Alberta the 'roughneck', or male oil rig worker has been a persistent archetype. This project rethinks our view of gendered oil labour by highlighting the often-invisible labour of women and their active role in Alberta's energy transitions. In partnership with the Canadian Energy Museum we have completed a pilot project AR experience that uses community-authored oral histories to re-narrate the transition to oil in Alberta, specifically the 1947 Leduc oil discovery. Over five years, 2022-2027, this project will expand to rethink gendered labour in Alberta's other energy transitions, including away from coal, to renewables and other forms of energy.
Through the 3D model of a 8x16 foot skidshack building, brought to drill sites by truck or train, we provide an experience of being inside a typical family oilfield dwelling. Through AR you can view the building from the outside, or scale it larger to go inside, where there are several objects you can activate to hear oral histories derived from community resources at the Canadian Energy Museum.
In Alberta the 'roughneck', or male oil rig worker has been a persistent archetype. This project rethinks our view of gendered oil labour by highlighting the often-invisible labour of women and their active role in Alberta's energy transitions. In partnership with the Canadian Energy Museum we have completed a pilot project AR experience that uses community-authored oral histories to re-narrate the transition to oil in Alberta, specifically the 1947 Leduc oil discovery. Over five years, 2022-2027, this project will expand to rethink gendered labour in Alberta's other energy transitions, including away from coal, to renewables and other forms of energy.
Through the 3D model of a 8x16 foot skidshack building, brought to drill sites by truck or train, we provide an experience of being inside a typical family oilfield dwelling. Through AR you can view the building from the outside, or scale it larger to go inside, where there are several objects you can activate to hear oral histories derived from community resources at the Canadian Energy Museum.
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