MIT Open Documentary Lab

Layers of Place: MIT Symposium - MIT Open Documentary Lab Beyond Monuments: Reclaiming Space through Augmented Reality   In conjunction with Layers of Place: MIT Augmented Reality Exhibition, the MIT Open Documentary Lab will offer tours, workshops and conve...

Join us for Layers of Place: MIT Symposium on April 7 & 8:

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Layers of Place: MIT Augmented Reality Programming - MIT Open Documentary Lab Beyond Monuments: Reclaiming Space through Augmented Reality   In conjunction with Layers of Place: MIT Augmented Reality Exhibition, the MIT Open Documentary Lab will offer tours, workshops and conve...

Sign up for Artists Conversations and Workshops:

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Layers of Place: MIT Augmented Reality Exhibition - MIT Open Documentary Lab Beyond Monuments: Reclaiming Space through Augmented Reality   Experience 7 augmented reality projects in the exhibit from April 7 – 18, 2025. To book a tour with our artists and...

During the next two weeks, we’ll have in-person:
🎧 Artist-led tours
🛠️ Workshops and Artists Conversations
🎤 Evening symposium

✨ Made by an incredible international group of artists part of MIT @opendoclab AR and Public Space Artist Collective

Book tours: opendoclab.mit.edu/presents/lay...

YouTube video by MIT Open Documentary Lab Layers of Place: MIT

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𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲: 𝗠𝗜𝗧 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

Beyond Monuments: Reclaiming Space through AR

📆 April 7–18, 2025
📍MIT

Explore MIT’s public spaces through seven site-specific AR works that surface hidden histories, speculative futures, and the many layered realities of place.

4/1/25 Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde - MIT Open Documentary Lab In conversation (online) with: Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde Tuesday | April 1, 2025 | 12PM – 1:30PM ET Bush of Ghosts: Spirits, Community, and Technology in the Co-Creation of Nigeria’s Transatlantic...

Today: Public talk (online) with Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde: Bush of Ghosts: Spirits, Community, and Technology in the Co-Creation of Nigeria’s Transatlantic Slave Trade Memorialization

📅 Tue, Apr 1: 12-1:30PM ET
🔗 Join via Zoom on our website link below

opendoclab.mit.edu/4-1-25-ayoda...

Using the Hoverlay app for my augmented reality project in MIT’s #artfinity festival. @opendoclab.bsky.social #hoverlayar

ASL interpretation and Closed Captions will be included.

Session will explore the artistry of audio description, artistic closed captions, & innovative haptics design. Sharing our approach to disability aesthetics, the panel will offer general techniques for creators interested in making accessible work & for programmers interested in reaching audiences.

Our conversation will share technical innovations to produce ground-breaking aesthetic access from pre-production to virtual worldbuilding. We will also discuss a case study of our production: “territory” which is an equitably accessible VR experience.

Image Description (ID): Top Left: A torso-up headshot of Alice Sheppard; she is a multiracial Black woman with coffee-colored skin and platinum blond short curly hair, she wears a hot pink top. Alice folds her hands in her lap and regards the camera with a slight smile. The rims of her wheelchair arc into the bottom of the frame. Photo by Cherylynn Tsushima. Top Right: Laurel Lawson is a white person with cropped hair. Her chin is lifted and her gaze directed upwards with a slight smile; her blue eyes compliment her gauzy blue tank. Photo Robbie Sweeny. Bottom Left: Kiira Benz is a white woman with long blonde hair, the wind is blowing strands across her face, she is smiling and wears an off-the-shoulder black top. Photo Davita Crawford Bottom Right: Sarah Wolozin is a fair woman with silvery, wavy, cropped hair; she's smiling and wears a colorful patterned blazer.

🚀 If you are in Austin on Sunday, join us at SXSW for a panel “Aesthetic Access for VR: Centering Disabled Artistry” at 10 AM CT featuring the groundbreaking work of Kinetic Light and Double Eye Studios and moderated by OpenDocLab director @sarahwolozin.bsky.social

schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/...

2/25/25 Verity McIntosh & Catherine Allen - MIT Open Documentary Lab In conversation (online) with: Verity McIntosh & Catherine Allen Tuesday | December 10, 2024 | 12PM – 1:30PM ET We’re All in This Together: Safety, Policy and the Translation of...

Join: Public talk with Verity McIntosh @veritymcintosh.bsky.social & Catherine Allen @catherineallen.bsky.social: We’re All in This Together: Safety, Policy & the Translation of Human Rights into Multi-Person Virtual Environments

📅 Tue, Feb 25: 12-1:30PM ET
🔗 Join via Zoom on our website link below

MIT Open Documentary Lab & MIT Co-Creation Studio Spring 2025 Lecture Series: Online on Tuesdays 12PM - 1:30PM ET: Feb 25 – Verity McIntosh, Director and Principal Investigator of Immersive Arts, Associate Professor at University of the West of England and Catherine Allen, CEO of Limina Immersive Mar 18 – Nouf Aljowaysir, New Media Artist and Researcher Apr 1 – Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde, Nigerian-American Artist, Designer, Technologist, Anthropologist and Time-Traveler More lectures to be added throughout the semester.

📣 Announcing the MIT OpenDocLab & MIT Co-Creation Studio Spring 2025 Lecture Series!

✨ Join us on select Tuesdays at 12PM ET. See poster for speakers. More to be announced!

💻 All lectures will be livestreamed via Zoom. If you’re unable to attend, recordings will be posted on our website.

🎨 Worlding Image: Created with an illustration by Amelia Winger-Bearskin and design by Helios Lab.

#WORLDING2025 #ClimateFutures #IndigenousStorytelling #CoCreation #MIT #OpenDocumentaryLab #SocialXR #DataVisualization #IndigenousKnowledge #SustainableFuture #ClimateAction #Innovation #TechForGood

🌍 WORLDING 2025 is a collaborative effort of the MIT Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab, @iso-bea.bsky.social (ISO), and @mitmedialab.bsky.social, generously funded by @weareagog.bsky.social: The Immersive Media Institute, MacArthur Foundation, and JustFilms at Ford Foundation.

ANNOUNCING THE 2025 WORLDING GATHERING at MIT Announcing the 2025 WORLDING Gatherin

🔗 Check out the full list of participants and organizers: cocreationstudio.mit.edu/worlding-202...

ISO Announces Four Indigenous Storytellers for WORLDING Program at MIT - ISO-BEA Toronto (Tkaronto), January 17, 2025 – The Indigenous Screen Office (ISO) in collaboration with Co-Creation Studio at the MIT Open Documentary Lab have selected four screen-based Indigenous artists fr...

🌱 Joined by Isabelle Ruiz, lead on WORLDING ISO delegation, these storytellers will collaborate with an incredible global cohort to explore the intersections of storytelling, technology, and climate futures.
#WORLDING2025 #IndigenousStorytelling #CoCreation #ClimateAction #MIT

🌊 Learn more:

#CoCreation #ClimateFuture #IndigenousStorytelling #SocialXR #DataVisualization #Worlding2025 #collectivewisdom #mitpress #MIT #opendocumentarylab #WORLDING #unitytechnologies #landuse #urbanplanning #documentary #technology #indigenousknowledge #indigenousartist #newmediaartist #technews

🌱 WORLDING 2025 is a project of MIT Co-Creation Studio at Open Doc Lab, in collab with Indigenous Screen Office @iso-bea.bsky.social, & MIT Media Lab @mitmedialab.bsky.social, with generous support from Agog @weareagog.bsky.social, MacArthur Foundation, & Just Films at @fordfoundation.bsky.social

Indigenous-led projects and perspectives are at the core of WORLDING.

🌊 More announcements coming soon.

YouTube video by MIT Open Documentary Lab 📣 WORLDING is back!

🌍 WORLDING explores how virtual environments bridge storytelling with placemaking, community wisdom, and climate science. The 2025 in-person incubator at MIT in January will explore social XR, data visualization, and Indigenous-led stories to build a just and thriving climate future.

🚀 Join us for a public talk (online) with May Abdalla, co-founder of the award-winning immersive studio Anagram, on Developing & Testing Immersive Experience to Create Impact

📅 Tuesday, Dec 10, 2024, 12PM ET
🔗 Link in bio

#ImmersiveStorytelling #MixedReality #VR #HealthAndTech #ADHD #MITOpenDocLab

Hello BlueSky! 🌟 MIT Open Documentary Lab and Co-Creation Studio here!

We bring technologists, storytellers and scholars together to advance the new arts of documentary.

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