1. a particular position or point in space.
2. a portion of space available or designated for or being used by someone.

This new exhibit at the MIT Museum has the purpose of reminding us of the second part of the definition: places are there for people to use, interact in and transform into incredible and wonderful sights.

Founded in 1983, Places Journal has tried “to see places in new ways” as the editors wrote, and this exhibit offers us a glimpse of those new ways of seeing places around the world.

Since the Journal was co-founded by an architecture faculty at MIT and the University of California, Berkeley, it seems only logical that after 32 years, MIT Museum would display some of its more relevant pieces.

21 photographers, from the famous Joel Sternfeld to Maria Cox, give us a new way of apprehending places where people live and feel. A lot of the photographs in the exhibit present New York places but don’t worry you will also encountered very unknown place such as Kyrgyzstan sights from Margaret Morton for example.

Enjoy a small preview in the exhibit by clicking the link below. New ways of showing the world deserved a new way of displaying quotes and a few pieces present in the exhibit.

TAKE ME AWAY!

The exhibit will run until August 16, 2015.

• 1:30 – 2:45 : Museum
• 3:00 – 4:00 : Photo treatment
• 4:00 – 5:15 : Post publication