Archive and the City

Archive and the City explores unexpected parallels between archival practices and urban planning, offering a thought-provoking examination of how documents, buildings, and ideas can be organised. The installation highlights how arranging books on a shelf or filing documents in a folder mirrors the complexity of a city, with its neighbourhoods, utilities, and interconnected functions. Furthermore, it underscores how serendipity can evolve into structured methodology within both archival and urban systems. A dedicated room features rare artifacts, illustrating “documentary residues” that narrate creative processes. Archive and the City invites visitors to see archives as dynamic narratives that mirror urban life’s structure and essence.