Museum of the Phantom City: Other Futures

See the city that could have been. Museum of the Phantom City: Other Futures lets you view visionary designs for the City of New York created by architects and artists over the last century. Walk through the metropolis and see Buckminster Fuller’s Dome over midtown Manhattan, Antonio Gaudi’s unbuilt cathedral, and Archigram’s pop-futurist Walking City, while standing on the projects’ intended sites.

To use, follow a map tagged with the sites of visionary proposals. When you are within range of a site, the tag will change color, giving you access to images and words about designers’ visions for that site. Compare reality to what might have been, and submit your opinion through the app’s “Rate this Future” function. Or just wander through the city as it’s been dreamed and consider what forms of utopia might be possible just around the corner.