The third volume of Design | Arts | Culture is dedicated to “Image and Memory”. 

If images are embodied in pictures, we should also acknowledge that “a picture is worth a thousand words”. This commonplace quotation suggests that images contain more information than texts and that the pieces of information provided by images are more easily processed and understood by any observer. Otherwise, a picture can trigger a buried memory and recall a precise moment in time much more rapidly than words. 

Through its breadth and complexity, the urban environment is a space of walking, chance encounters, surprising discoveries and immersing in time.

Every place is a palimpsest of traces, that the walker experiments with and creates in a flow. Therefore, immersion in the memory of a place is a flowing process of enactment that triggers images kept in memory and creates new ones, as Benjamin observed.

Consequently, the memory of places and their traces was the basis for designing the third volume of DAC Journal, Image and Memory, No. 2. The cover of the journal and the visual concept of this issue were created by Mihaela Moțăianu, who proposes a series of her photographs inserted between the journal’s sections as a kaleidoscope of moments that capture the flow of walking and the traces of Time. Visual artists, art historians and theoreticians, contributed with essays (both textual and visual) thematising various aspects regarding the mnemonic, individual and collective memories.

Total pages 138