Mate Barkoczi
research & design &  prototype



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PEEK THE UNSEEN
helping better use of existing infrastructures through the portals
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Interaction Design
2024 Master Diploma project


We pass by vacant, abandoned ground-floor and street-front properties every day, yet we know very little about them. What urban planning processes determine the habitalibity and quality of a street?


I wanted to allow people to glance into these empty places, so I picked Népszínház as a perfect example of the abundance of unused vacant properties. In my master’s thesis, I focused on Népszínház Street in Budapest’s 8th district to demonstrate the importance of allowing people to glimpse into these empty spaces. My goal is to make potential tenants or buyers aware of the needs of the local residents, helping them decide where a cultural actor, specific organization, investor, or store might be valuable on this street.

The opinion of the people living in and around Népszínház Street is very important, as it is a very diverse population, so I started with researching socially sensitive documents. I use augmented reality to create portals that reveal these insights. This approach can uncover unforeseen connections and act as a ‘local spatial agency’ search engine, simulating ideas and providing textual and visual content based on existing neighborhood data

Connections behind the service


Reachable virtual portals in front of the facade since the potential buyers and renters don’t have a key for these abandond, empty spaces




Prototyping phase I’ve been designing and modelling the potential portals in  Blender and exporting them into the 8th wall online accessible Augmented Reality system.





Based on ‘Pontus Wärnestål’s - Designing AI-Powered Services’ matrix




Providing information with the help of OpenAI and communication with my own database through a Replit backend  










         






/ 2D layers in AR

needed to iterate after the user testsbetter readabilitygenerated text and content is snapping into the real environment














Exhibitions, Conferences
2024 BIG SEE Design Week - exhibitor, Ljubljana, SI 
2024 Zip-Scene Conference - speaker, Prague, CZ
     

Supervisor
Ágoston Nagy
Masterwork consultant
Levente Polyák
Thesis consultant
Anikó Illés
Special thanks  to
Dániel Pethő, Lilla Kammermann, Maja Deák, Dániel Győrfi, Tamás Fogarasy, Bori Tölgyesi, Zoltán Illyés, Panna Surnovszky

Developed with
8thWall, Replit, Blender
Portal visualisation (made in React)
based on ‘pmndrs dev collective’ work
©2024mate barkocziportfolio, show case
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