This book comprises fifteen articles that investigate what images do, particularly in relation to the disciplines of architecture, design and visual arts. It claims that it is the differentiating power of images—their actions—which constitutes their capacity to look like something they are not, as well as create something that does not yet exist. What Images Do address the crucial role that images might play in producing and investigating what we have not yet seen or understood in and of reality.

With contributions by: Sabine Ammon, Gottfried Boehm, Marc Boumeester, Jan Bäcklund, Georges Didi-Huberman, Jonathan Hay, Toni Hildebrandt, Henrik Oxvig, Andrej Radman, Jacques Rancière, Michael Renner, Ludger Schwarte, Martin Søberg, Sjoerd van Tuinen and Charlotte Warsen.