This paper examines the state of the art of mobile Augmented Reality (AR) and mobile Virtual Reality (VR) in relation to collaboration and professional practices in a creative digital environment and higher education. To support their discussion, the authors use a recent design-based research project named "Juxtapose," which explores tensions between the digital and the analogue. Also Juxtapose explores the possibilities of interaction resulting from the use of multiple markers to create a playful semi-tangible object, whilst proposing a networked model of content creation in "augmented space." In this paper, following a narrative and empirical base, the authors argue that their approach is very similar to Wenger's concept of legitimate peripheral participation leading to active participation within communities of practice and can be beneficial to redesign and improve some of the creative curriculum in higher education. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579395.]