It seems scarcely possible to reduce the multifaceted phenomenon of the city to a single, unified concept. Indeed, the city stands as an open-ended succession of forms and counter-forms, of materializing and dispersing occurrences, of dreams realized, abandoned, and destroyed. As a built form, as an urban space, and as a source for the imagination, it reveals itself not only through theoretical engagement but also through a vast reservoir of images, which – in their production and perception – at once accompany and shape the experience of urban life.
With its bi-annual theme “The Image of the City,” the DFK Paris seeks to make a key contribution to the historical and theoretical understanding of the city’s formation, representation, and imagination, in dialogue with current methodological discourses.