Prosody: an ode to the city

Abstract

The contemporary era has projected themes of spatial uncertainty and existentialism within our cities, and in response, cities have injected a sense of ambiguous complexity in our subconscious. More than ever, our postures are being dictated by global trends redefining our interpretation of the surrounding physical and non-physical settings. This essay is a visual extraction of a short film made by the author in December 2020 entitled Prosody: An Ode to the City, shortlisted for the Audience Award at the 1st edition of the City Space Architecture Film Festival in Bologna. The film is a series of still frames taken as snapshots from several footage shot by the author in two different cities, Weimar and Shanghai, between 2015 and 2017. Such experience is a flaneurie depiction of one’s stance in the city and the perceptual element embedded in our subconscious to make sense of our surrounding environment.