![alt: Park users scanning a shape hanging from the tree in order to trigger the AR interaction with the sprites](https://studiohyte.com/media/pages/projects/based-on-a-tree-story/fc3b0cbaa9-1671034326/boats_hero.jpg)
Furtherfield
Hervisions
Bones Tan Jones
#Installation #Exhibition #Animation #Interaction #Visual Identity
Visual Identity
An interactive web application
Three 3D ‘sprites’
Park Signage
![alt: Park users scanning a shape hanging from the tree in order to trigger the AR interaction with the sprites](https://studiohyte.com/media/pages/projects/based-on-a-tree-story/fc3b0cbaa9-1671034326/boats_hero.jpg)
Based on a Tree Story (BOATS) was an interactive web app exhibited in Finsbury Park, and was the chosen artwork from the People’s Park Plinth (PPP) vote. You can find out more about our work for PPP here.
We worked closely with artist Bones Tan Jones & Hervisions to produce this interactive fantasy experience centred around the trees of Finsbury Park. The aim of our web application was to encourage park visitors to navigate through the park in unexpected ways, whilst simultaneously listening to the fictional stories of the trees around them. These stories were ‘translated’ and communicated by three mystical AR sprites. These fictional sprite characters offered the user an opportunity to learn about the ecologies of the park through interactive modes of storytelling and walking rituals.
The visual identity took its roots from mystical symbolism - merging and twisting its way into technology computer game-esque aesthetics.
![3 people in a park on a sunny day holding up their phones towards a tree](https://studiohyte.com/media/pages/projects/based-on-a-tree-story/372cf5f4d4-1671034326/views-from-based-on-a-tree-story-the-sprite-dance_52323968792_o.jpg)
![3 people in front of a sign, using their phones, based on a tree story can be read on the closest persons phone](https://studiohyte.com/media/pages/projects/based-on-a-tree-story/e97ec1ebcd-1671034326/views-from-based-on-a-tree-story-the-sprite-dance_52325088473_o.jpg)
![A pink and purple map of Finsbury park with 3 trees on it, next to trees are icons, one with the Furtherfield, another with a running man and the last with a plant](https://studiohyte.com/media/pages/projects/based-on-a-tree-story/2a857a2807-1671034326/boats-map-01.jpg)
![a group of six people standing in front a Based on a tree story banner on Furthfield Gallery](https://studiohyte.com/media/pages/projects/based-on-a-tree-story/67a4b66af7-1671034326/views-from-based-on-a-tree-story-the-sprite-dance_52325200899_o.jpg)