Cambridge’s Parkers Piece is regarded as the birthplace of the rules of Association Football. It is also synonymous with its central victorian lamp post, ‘Reality Checkpoint’ as a place where one crosses from one reality into another. Over the Summer of 2012 the public were invited to propose ‘New Rules For A Fair Society’ through their own smartphones and tablets. Using augmented reality app Wikitude, they could view Parkers Piece as a landscape populated by new rules, and then add their own. The artists also worked with the print department at Cambridge School of Art nearby to produce Letterpress prints of some of the favourite rules and gifted these to public participants. Reality Rules can still be viewed today, through the Wikitude app. The project was commissioned by Futurecity as part of the VISUALISE public art programme for Anglia Ruskin University.
