Meet the author: Roger Mummert (in English)

Join us for a discussion with writer and photographer Roger Mummert, as he presents Paris: A City of Ideas, exploring the chronology and synthesis of ideas that have transformed the medieval city of Paris into the modern city of today. Looking back over the past four centuries, we experience the power of the ideas, narratives and myths that are etched into the urban landscape. While rooted in antiquity, these ideas of democracy and social equality, the Enlightenment and Bohemianism, piety and secularity, the emergence of public spaces and the preservation of the environment continue to fuel passionate debate in Paris today.

This premier session will focus on the fact that Paris is a city where ideas flourish. These ideas coalesce into narratives, allegories and stories that form a neural network of the living city. Through ideas, one can walk the city’s streets, as did Baudelaire the flâneur, and slip through…