Assistant professor of art + design and architecture Sonia Ralston worked with the Arnold Arboretum for the augmented reality (AR) project Ghost Trees. The project memorialized different trees that have been lost due to damage or disease from the past few decades; after scanning a QR code, visitors can hold their phones up to get a glimpse of what these trees would have looked like at specific places in the arboretum.
“We came up all together with this idea of the Ghost Trees — of looking at the dead, or the deaccession, and the more euphemistic trees that were in the Arboretum,” Ralston told The Harvard Crimson.
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