Credits & Acknowledgements
Intellectual debts and project contributors
This website is an independent critical project that grew out of the effort to find a way to write about a failed XR development project, much of that thinking taking shape in discussion with Dr. Bill Mihalopoulos. Although the present site is not a HashimaXR deliverable, and no member of the HashimaXR team reviewed or approved this site prior to publication, the arguments developed here were shaped by the intellectual and practical work of the HashimaXR Project and by conversations that occurred while that project was active.
HashimaXR Project Contributors
As publicly listed by the project.
Principal Investigators / Co-Principal Investigators- Dr. Christopher Gerteis
SOAS University of London — Co-Principal Investigator - Dr. Kyoichi Nakamura 中村享一
ICHIU Architectural Concepts & Design, Nagasaki — Co-Principal Investigator - Dr. Bill Mihalopoulos
SOAS University of London — Co-Principal Investigator
- Jakob MacDonald, MA
Senior XR Developer (United Kingdom) - Gareth Mattey, MFA
Narrative Designer and Lead Writer, Daiwa Scholar (Japan) - Adam Kay
Unreal Engine Developer and Digital Asset Artist (United Kingdom) - Katherine Strachan, MEng
Reality Capture Engineer, Daiwa Scholar (Japan)
- Dr. Hiroko Hashimoto 橋本彼路子
Professor of Architecture, Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science
Intellectual Provenance
I am especially indebted to Dr. Bill Mihalopoulos for sustained intellectual engagement during the earlier phase of trying to write through the project's failure, including discussion of core problems that later became organizing questions for this site. I also acknowledge the broader contributions of the HashimaXR team, whose technical, narrative, and architectural expertise provided the practical conditions through which many of these issues became thinkable in the first place.
Acknowledgement here records intellectual and professional debts. It does not imply responsibility for, endorsement of, or agreement with the arguments presented on this website.