The Urban Field Glass Project can engage communities to re-envision urban space, that has been destroyed through 1950's urban planning projects, such as highways that go through city centers, or add perspective by depicting historical images only. This project requires a fair amount of advance research to ascertain a site in any given city. The images change of course, with each new installation in each new city. In contested spaces it is titled “The Urban Field Glass Project” and in an historical version it is titled “Visionary Sightseeing Binoculars”.
The Urban Field Glass project consists of would be sightseeing binoculars that contain 2 past and 2 future stereoscopic 3-D images of the site at which it stands. In this iteration of the project the stereoscope is installed in an urban area The past images stem from archives (transformed into 3d in Photoshop) and the future images are created by teenagers in the community who envision what they would like to see in the empty lot or abandoned area at which these binoculars are often installed. The project can function as a purely historical perspective (in 3-D whereby the artist converts 2-d to 3-d), or it can be inserted into publicly contested spaces, where change is occurring or might occur (urban design change)
