A City Without Objects Part 2 Project 2022 Kamen Hristov Rusev University of Dundee | UK Our cities are increasingly characterised by careless expansion and wasteful development. They are compartmentalised by infrastructure and interconnected by the car and hence negate collective life. The basic datums of this city are buildings, space and circulation.Against this scenario, this project reimagines a future Dundee as a hyper-dense city of overlapping figures where objects, such as they exist, do not have the binary logic of figure-ground. In this project, the city fabric is defined by desire and by the way desire puts our relation to architectural objects in motion. The project defines the city in terms of overlapping narratives instead of categories of use.In order to present a city beyond the context of commodity capitalism that has been so destructive of our environment, the work brings together: analogical urbanism - the field of analogous objects; commodity capitalism - fixation on objects as commodities; environmental destruction - accelerated by commodity capitalism; dreams and the unconscious - the field of displaced and condensed objects.Condensation and displacement describe how the elements of a dream are combined and transformed during what Freud calls 'dream work'. The work of dreams offers a radically different account of object-formation than commodification. Tutor(s) Lorens Holm