Fragmentation and reconfiguration: experiencing the city between art and philosophy

The project “Fragmentation and reconfiguration: experiencing the city between art and philosophy” (IFILNOVA), created in 2018 by Maria Filomena Molder (principal investigator), seeks to explore the relationship between arts and the city of Lisbon and the way it achieved new and significant forms in the last century and a half, in a process coincident with the development of modern metropolises.

“The project aims at investigating the aesthetic experience of the city by making use of two strategies combining the contribution of philosophy and art studies/practices. Firstly, it will focus on case-studies from photography, cinema, architecture, literature and sound art/music dealing with the city, in particular with the city of Lisbon; and secondly, it will reassess the tense relation between fragmentation and reconfiguration, as explored in Goethe’s morphological thinking and in authors that have an affinity with it (such as, for example, Simmel, Benjamin, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Deleuze, Joyce, Proust and Pessoa)”.

Further information about the project here.

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2018