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Acknowledgement
of
Country

Sandpit
respectfully
works
across
the
unceded
lands
of
the
Wurundjeri
Woi
Wurrung
peoples
of
the
Eastern
Kulin
Nations,
as
well
as
the
Kaurna
and
Yugambeh
peoples.
We
recognise
and
respect
their
continued
cultural,
spiritual
and
technological
practices.

We
also
extend
this
to
all
First
Nations
peoples
across
the
land
known
as
Australia
and
pay
respects
to
their
Ancestors
and
Elders
past
and
present.

As
the
very
first
storytellers
and
technologists,
First
Nations
peoples
possess
invaluable
knowledge
and
perspectives
that
are
crucial
to
the
work
that
we
do
across
both
the
physical
and
digital
realms.

Searching for the Wizard of Oz

Searching for the Wizard of Oz is an AR scavenger hunt that takes place across the inner city streets of Adelaide.

There are six large paste-up posters throughout the CBD that users are tasked with finding.

When they find them, they hold their phone up to ‘scan’ them and the phone screen brings the poster to life, telling a piece of the iconic story using beautiful 2D animation by Chris Edser.

When users have found all six posters they are given the location of the Wizard, which is a final dramatic animation revealed behind a miniature curtain.

Searching for the Wizard of Oz (SWO) was commissioned by City of Adelaide as part of ‘Adelaide Unleashed’, a series of activations designed to help recover from the effects of the pandemic by bringing more foot traffic into the CBD.

SWO was highly successful, bringing in a total of 2,747 people and generating 674.55 hours of people walking through the city that otherwise wouldn’t have had a reason to come.

Person engaging with the Tin Woodman poster. The person is holding up their phone to the poster to view the augmented reality overlay.