Writer/Director Dela Wilson spends two weeks immersed in Global Justice and Transformation across New Zealand, witnessing and learning from Māori values, contexts and customs, specifically related to approaches to criminal justice reform, cultural preservation and reparations.

This seeds the concept of bringing the experiences of social repair to communities around the world.

Dela receives a seed grant from the XR Lab at the Rhodes Trust, funded by Atlantic Philanthropies.

Concept development supported by Alice Wroe and Richard Smith.

Dela and Richard co-produce “Windows of Opportunity,” a mobile-powered augmented reality experience bringing Linda Bilmes and Cornell William Brooks’ research, “Normalizing Reparations: U.S. Precedent, Norms, and Models for Compensating Harms and Implications for Reparations to Black Americans” to life.

Screened at the Global Fellows Welcome Event, Oxford University, United Kingdom.

The initial proof of concept is explored across various activist communities: globally, through the Atlantic Fellows network and FORGE: Harnessing Creativity for Reparatory Justice in Accra; regionally through the National Symposium for State and Local Reparations in Evanston, IL; and locally through the Riot to Repair exhibition in Los Angeles, CA.

Feedback informs script adaptations, pedagogy and experiential design.

The Hope Gap vertical slice (or trailer) is produced in partnership with GRX Immersive Labs and an international team of diverse designers and developers.

The 20-minute work-in-progress includes previews of Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Namibia, with full immersion into Evanston, IL- - home of the first municipally-funded reparations policy in the United States.

The work-in-progress was screened by 40 impact-focused professionals, representing organizations across the UK, US, Brazil, New Zealand, Senegal, and France. Feedback was overwhelmingly positive, with requests to add more geographic regions to the experience.