The City & The City is a group exhibition presented at the Edith Gallery as part of the Festival of Design Aotearoa 2026. Bringing together artists and designers from UCOL's creative campuses in Whanganui and Palmerston North, alongside invited collaborators, the exhibition explores the many ways place is inhabited, perceived, remembered and imagined.

Working across projection, animation, painting, textiles, digital media, installation and speculative design, participating artists respond to the city as a lived environment, social field, ecological system and evolving cultural landscape. Through animated visions of Whanganui, investigations of public space, speculative objects, communication infrastructures and painterly translations of urban surfaces, the exhibition reveals the overlapping realities that coexist within everyday life.

The City & The City explores the urban environment not as a singular place but as a shared condition, continually remade through multiple and overlapping ways of inhabiting, perceiving and experiencing the world.

Exhibition Viewing and Networking: 4.00pm - 5:30pm, Tuesday, 20th October 2026
Exhibition: Open Daily 10.00am - 3.30pm, 16th - 25th October 2026