Dreaming with the Archives Brooklyn Bridge Park

Dreaming with the Archives is a public art exhibition by Kinfolk that transforms Brooklyn Bridge Park into a canvas for radical imagination through augmented reality (AR). This groundbreaking exhibition invites visitors to experience digital monuments to Brooklyn's layered histories — that exist atop and surrounding the park — while engaging with the current landscape and inspiring futures re-dreamed

As you move through the park, your mobile device becomes a portal through which to encounter immersive augmented reality monuments created by visionary artists Ari Melenciano, Olalekan Jeyifous, Kiyan Williams, Wangechi Mutu, Jeremiah Ojo, and Hank Willis Thomas. Each of the artists created site-specific artworks to honor the abundant flora, fauna, agriculture, skilled laborers, — enslaved andfree — and the sounds that make up the rich cultural history and ecology of Brooklyn and the African diaspora.

Dreaming with the Archives invites us all to imagine new futures for our public spaces — futures grounded in our shared pasts and radical possibility. Juneteenth 2025 marks the opening of a portal in public space for New York City to engage with our dreams of liberation and the stories powering our collective memory, through the Summer.

Presented in collaboration with the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, this exhibition marks the inaugural moment of Kinfolk Tech’s yearlong, multi-city initiative, Dreaming with the Archives, activating imaginations and preserving stories of place through art and technology across New York City, New Orleans, and Philadelphia.