The Folding City

Mengxuan Song

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The Folding City Project looks at the city as a layered and divided space, where different social groups exist within the same place but do not share the same experience. This idea comes from Henri Lefebvre, who suggests that space is shaped by social relations and power.

In this project, I use digital collage and AI images to combine different urban scenes into cube structures. The video shows these cubes folding and changing, bringing different parts of the city together.

The city looks complete, but it is actually made from many fragmented images. It reflects inequality and hidden structures beneath the surface.