Layers of Place is a site-based augmented reality exhibition created by the MIT Open Documentary Lab’s AR and Public Space Artist Collective and produced in Austin with local artists and community partners. The exhibition transforms public spaces into portals for memory, history, and imagination, revealing hidden layers of place through location-based AR. Across the city, projects explore erased histories, climate futures, technology, embodiment, and everyday acts of care—inviting communal encounters that reframe Austin as a living, participatory archive shaped by those who inhabit it.
