Description
Tempus Futurum was a large-scale projection mapping project created for Cork City Councils Island City project and presented on the façade of the 300-year-old Triskel Arts Centre during Winter 2023 and Spring 2024. The 10-minute looped piece ran nightly for seven months, tracing the evolving story of the city—from ancient woodlands to imagined futures shaped by today’s environmental choices.

Blending historical research with speculative storytelling, the piece began with pre-human Cork, followed by scenes of Celtic cultivation, Viking and Norman construction, and the urban and ecological developments that followed. Climate change and human impact emerged as recurring themes.

A distinctive final scene was driven by real-time data from a nearby TFI public bike station. Using custom software built in Processing, this live API data controlled the growth of foliage in the scene—visually rewarding sustainable behaviour with environmental regrowth on the building's surface.

Local schoolchildren contributed ideas and drawings for future visions of the building, which were integrated into the projection—bringing a hopeful, intergenerational perspective to the installation.

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Client
Cork City Council

Venue
Triskel Arts Centre, South Main Street, Cork

Date
Winter 2023 – Spring 2024

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Team
Creative Director
Brian Kenny

Animation
Carla Soriani
Thiago Oliveira
Alfredo Espeche

Creative Technologist
Tom O’Dea

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