Art educators from The Bahamas, France, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and the United States with experiences working in Pre-K–12, higher education institutions, museums, and community-based settings engaged in participatory visual inquiry to create augmented encounters in public spheres. Our augmented critical encounters used augmented reality (AR) technology (i.e., Adobe Aero) to overlay digital information onto real-world environments in real time. The art educators, working from intersectional critical feminist, race, transnational, and (dis)ability positions, joined their participatory research by collectively creating an affective map with tears symbolically dismantling tiers (i.e., tears as in grieving, empathic weeping, and in acts of ripping away the tiers of hierarchies of patriarchal power and exclusion). According to Sara Ahmed (2017), “feminism often begins with intensity: you are aroused by what you come up against. You register something in the sharpness of an impression. Something can be sharp without it being...
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