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Layers of Place

Layers of Place

augmented reality
augmented reality
Feb 28–Mar 16
Danny Goldfield, Lori Landay, Meghna Singh, and Simon Wood
Venue:
Lobby 10
Lobby 10

Layers of Place reimagines MIT's campus as a tapestry of dialogues across time and space, using augmented reality (AR) to reveal hidden histories, stories, and perspectives where physical sites meet digital spaces.

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Layers of Place

augmented reality
augmented reality
Feb 28–Mar 16
Danny Goldfield, Lori Landay, Meghna Singh, and Simon Wood
Venue:
Lobby 10
Lobby 10

Layers of Place reimagines MIT's campus as a tapestry of dialogues across time and space, using augmented reality (AR) to reveal hidden histories, stories, and perspectives where physical sites meet digital spaces.

Layers of Place

augmented reality
augmented reality
Feb 28–Mar 16
Danny Goldfield, Lori Landay, Meghna Singh, and Simon Wood
Venue:
Lobby 10
Lobby 10

Layers of Place reimagines MIT's campus as a tapestry of dialogues across time and space, using augmented reality (AR) to reveal hidden histories, stories, and perspectives where physical sites meet digital spaces.

Layers of Place

augmented reality
augmented reality
Feb 28–Mar 16
Danny Goldfield, Lori Landay, Meghna Singh, and Simon Wood
Venue:
Lobby 10
Lobby 10

Layers of Place reimagines MIT's campus as a tapestry of dialogues across time and space, using augmented reality (AR) to reveal hidden histories, stories, and perspectives where physical sites meet digital spaces.

Add to Calendar

Layers of Place

augmented reality
augmented reality
Feb 28–Mar 16
Danny Goldfield, Lori Landay, Meghna Singh, and Simon Wood
Venue:
Lobby 10
Lobby 10

Layers of Place reimagines MIT's campus as a tapestry of dialogues across time and space, using augmented reality (AR) to reveal hidden histories, stories, and perspectives where physical sites meet digital spaces.

Layers of Place

augmented reality
augmented reality
Feb 28–Mar 16
Danny Goldfield, Lori Landay, Meghna Singh, and Simon Wood
Venue:
Lobby 10
Lobby 10

Layers of Place reimagines MIT's campus as a tapestry of dialogues across time and space, using augmented reality (AR) to reveal hidden histories, stories, and perspectives where physical sites meet digital spaces.

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Layers of Place

Layers of Place

augmented reality
augmented reality
Feb 28–Mar 16
Danny Goldfield, Lori Landay, Meghna Singh, and Simon Wood
Venue:
Lobby 10
Lobby 10

Layers of Place reimagines MIT's campus as a tapestry of dialogues across time and space, using augmented reality (AR) to reveal hidden histories, stories, and perspectives where physical sites meet digital spaces.

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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.

Visitors explore MIT's iconic sites through geo-located markers and digital overlays, each revealing unique stories and perspectives. While individual projects serve as distinct portals, the exhibition's power emerges through collective experience. These layered encounters yield a prismatic viewpoint that captures diverse narratives and reveals nuanced dimensions of place. The campus transforms into a multidimensional inquiry exploring racial justice, historical memory, monuments, environmental stewardship, and technology's impact on civic life.

Eight distinct perspectives emphasize plurality and nuance, expanding "public space" to encompass both physical campus and virtual AR layers. Through three featured projects—Founders Pillars, 1 to Infinity in the Infinite, and Moving Memory—visitors participate in a new form of communal experience.

Danny Goldfield creates projects exploring humanity through numbers. At MIT, he develops product engineering processes, documents human performances, and builds augmented reality experiences. As an independent artist, he leads Numbers, a blockchain conceptual art project. A former MIT Open Documentary Lab fellow (2017), his work has appeared on LIFE's cover and in The New York Times, BBC Worldwide, and other major media.

Lori Landay is professor of cultural studies, new media, and visual culture at Berklee College of Music. An interdisciplinary artist-scholar, she explores image, movement, and sound through live performance, video, and extended reality (XR). Her MIT Open Documentary Lab fellowship (2022–24) focused on motion and emotion in XR, including collaborative work at MIT's nano.Immersion Lab.

Meghna Singh and Simon Wood are Cape Town-based artists investigating colonial and capitalist legacies via decolonial approaches. Their collaborations, including Container, blend XR, video, and public art. Singh, a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University’s “Playing With Ghosts,” decolonizes digital spaces, while Wood’s film Scenes from a Dry Cityearned international acclaim. Their MIT Open Documentary Lab project, The Four Floors of Faneuil Hall, is a quadriptych presenting simultaneous happenings in an iconic Boston building built by a transatlantic slave trader.

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The MIT Open Documentary Lab's AR and Public Space Artist Collective investigates how augmented environments and storytelling technology reshape our relationships to place and community. This working group advances social and spatial justice through research and creative practice.

Members: Nadav Assor, Halsey Burgund, Danny Goldfield, Rashin Fahandej, Lori Landay, Yucef Merhi, Mathieu Pradat, Sahar Sajadieh, Meghna Singh, Tamara Shogaolu, Sarah Wolozin, Simon Wood, and Joanna Wright.

The Open Documentary Lab connects storytellers, technologists, and scholars to explore new documentary forms, emphasizing co-creative, interactive, and immersive narratives. Building on MIT's legacy of media innovation and commitment to accessible information, the Lab catalyzes documentary's evolution through collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and technological innovation.

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Additional Contributors:

Nicolas Robbe (Hoverlay, CEO)

Alissa Cardone (Moving Memory, choreography)

MIT nano.Immersion Lab (Moving Memory, motion capture)

Additional collaborators to be announced.

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