Making It Visible: Figure & Ground – From Imaginaries to the Living City

2026

New Media, Visual Communication

Authors

Fanny Beinhold

Eljesa Bujupi

Sarah Cultura

Chiara D´Elia

Julia Groß

Ksenia Günther

Fernanda Moreno

Bruno Laumann

Marija Maric

Thomas Mutscheller

Yooh Oh

Laura Rodríguez

Zoe Schmidt

Marlon Schweickhardt

Type

Semester Project

Field of Study

New Media, Visual Communication

Supervisors

Exhibition at the Summer Festival: Making It Visible: Figure & Ground - From Imaginaries to the Living City

Making It Visible: Figure & Ground – From Imaginaries to the Living City
A science–art collaboration with the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz

This interdisciplinary project explores how streets embody changing ideas about cities, from post-war car-centred planning to today’s efforts to reclaim roads as public spaces. Using urban research, artistic practice and public participation, participants investigate the often-invisible systems and ideologies that shape everyday urban life. Through collaborative, creative formats, they make these hidden structures visible while imagining more human, inclusive, and liveable cities.

During the exhibition tour, students presented their projects, such as incoming student Yoon Oh, pictured here.