Natalia Cabrera - Portfolio

Role: Interactive Narratives Designer, Producer.
Technologies: Unity, AR Core
Date: 2019

Project Description

Memorial Rocas AR is an immersive installation that virtually reconstructs a ruined memory site, allowing visitors to explore different layers of its history without physically altering its remains. Through an augmented reality app, users can walk through the former cabins of Rocas de Santo Domingo, seeing how they looked before their destruction and accessing images, audiovisual material, and testimonies from vacationers, Pinochet’s secret agents, and survivors of this torture center.

The project seeks to rescue and reconstruct the memory of this place, highlighting its transformation from a popular seaside resort—built in the 1970s as a vacation site for Chile’s poorest workers—into the first torture and extermination school of General Pinochet’s dictatorship, where hundreds of people were tortured and forcibly disappeared.

My role was producer and interactive narrative designer. UX design played a key role in crafting a sensitive and accessible experience of this “disappeared site.” Based on the research conducted by Pepe Rovano (project director and lead researcher), I selected the most relevant elements to build a nonlinear, interactive narrative. This narrative was designed to function in two exhibition formats: a geolocated experience over the real ruins of the cabins, and a portable installation created for galleries and museum spaces.