Rethinking the City: Reconfiguration and Fragmentation

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Maria Filomena Molder is a Professor Emeritus at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a researcher at IFILNOVA. Her philosophical interests converge towards aesthetical issues concerning poetry and art. Reading Dante Kant Goethe Baudelaire Nietzsche Wittgenstein Benjamin Pessoa Broch or Colli she has acquired the conviction that art and poetry are forms of knowledge of a generative kind: they allow us to see the very conditions under which reality is perceived by granting us a presentation of it. Ever since the beginning of her research she has sought to demonstrate the fertility allowed by aesthetical issues towards the understanding of what philosophy can be.Nélio Conceição (PhD NOVA University Lisbon 2013) is a researcher at IFILNOVA (NOVA Institute of Philosophy). His research focuses on aesthetics and the philosophy of art with recent work addressing topics within the philosophy of photography film-philosophy and the philosophy of the city. He has co-edited the volumes Aesthetics and Values: Contemporary Perspectives (Mimesis International 2021) Conceptual Figures of Fragmentation and Reconfiguration (IFILNOVA 2021) and Planos de pormenor: leituras críticas sobre a experiência da cidade (Húmus 2023) and is the author of A realidade em exercício: a fotografia da fenomenologia a Walter Benjamin (Edições do Saguão 2023).Nuno Fonseca (PhD NOVA University Lisbon 2012) is currently a researcher at the NOVA Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) and coordinates the Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art research group at CultureLab. He investigates various topics in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art both in the context of the arts and of everyday urban life. He has taught philosophy courses at NOVA FCSH and since 2021 he co-teaches the course Urban Aesthetics: Philosophy art and the City. He has co-edited several books and authored chapters and articles on the city and urban experience such as Planos de Pormenor (2023) and A cidade nas práticas artísticas (2023).