Work№ 0062023Experiment

London Lens

A guided walk through London that tells you the history of where you are standing.

Reconstructed from the walkthrough video. Bill's own account is still to come.

A woman with a ponytail seen from behind on a London street as a police car passes
01

The Curiosity

Every London street has three hundred years of stories under it, and a phone in every hand. Could a walk narrate itself?

02

The Build

A guided narrative experience: you walk, it knows where you are, and it tells you what happened here. Built in the winter of 2023, after a year of location-based work with Lightship.

fig. 1The walkthrough, December 2023.
03

The Result

A working prototype and a six-minute walk.