PREM ARThailand
For his ARThailand Residency at PREM Tinsulanonda International School in January 2026, Mark developed the PREM Rangers project. The school – in Northern Thailand – serves over 500 students in grades 1 through 12, representing over 30 nationalities.
The project was designed to build off the Grade 2 unit, for seven-year-olds, entitled Sharing the Planet. Students explore how animals, their characteristics, and environments are interconnected systems.
For the PREM Rangers project, a series of creative workshops were built around a speculative futures framework called The Three Horizons. The workshops, for thirty students, were based in the foundational activities of drawing and writing.
Activity sheets were created for each phase. The first task was to draw a picture, and write about the animal you want to protect.
Using the Three Horizons Framework; for Horizon 1, students explored the current state, considering the challenges their animal was facing such as lack of habitat or environmental degradation. For Horizon 3, students imagined the ideal state – or habitat – for their animal.
For Horizon 2, the state of transition, students imagined themselves as rangers. Their task was to protect their animal and help to create it’s ideal world. They designed their ranger uniform and considered the resources and superpowers they would need.
To generate AI portraits of the students as PREM Rangers with their animals, Mark took photos of each student, and crafted descriptive prompts of their ranger uniform based on their drawings and writings. Google, Nano Banana Pro was used to generate the portraits. Note: to protect the identity of the PREM participants, the photos used here were generated with AI in the same style.
Once the students received their portrait, they wrote a short story about their animal and how they want to protect it.
The portraits and stories were published in a book about the project featuring all thirty students.
Spreads from the book.
Spreads from the book.
Portraits of all the students were displayed on banners throughout the PREM campus.
During the workshop, students also designed their ranger badge. At the end, they signed a pledge to protect plants, animals and habitats to the best of their ability.