LAYERS OF PLACE: MIT Symposium. A dialogue with the MIT Open Documentary Lab AR and Public Space Artist Collective

The MIT Open Documentary Lab’s AR and Public Space Artist Collective presents Layers of Place, a multiyear exploration of how digital augmentation reshapes our understanding of space, place, and shared histories.

Through Hoverlay, a location-based mobile AR app, MIT’s landscape becomes an evolving canvas for urban annotation, bridging personal, communal, and historical experiences and revealing hidden stories and new perspectives. Hear from the artists who created the exhibit about their intent, process, and discoveries. What did they learn about digital augmentation as a tool for collective dialogue, imagination, and resistance? How do the pluralities of perspectives and layered realities complicate our relationship to place and provoke a new understanding of place and each other?