'The (New) Utopianism: Ethic or or Aesthetic?' by Alexander Ostrogorsky
The (New) Utopianism: Ethic or Aesthetic? Social, urban and architectural utopian projects are often judged by their least important capacity — whether or not they can be carried out. But is it right to treat utopias as potentially implementable projects? What is really valuable in utopian visions? Can we think of utopias as primarily works of art and start with their aesthetic qualities? In this talk, which serves as a prologue to the ‘History of Urbanism’ course within the program ’City and Technology: Prototyping Future Cities’, we will take a look at some of the key utopian projects of the past and try to define them from both ethical and artistic perspectives.
The (New) Utopianism: Ethic or Aesthetic? Social, urban and architectural utopian projects are often judged by their least important capacity — whether or not they can be carried out. But is it right to treat utopias as potentially implementable projects? What is really valuable in utopian visions? Can we think of utopias as primarily works of art and start with their aesthetic qualities? In this talk, which serves as a prologue to the ‘History of Urbanism’ course within the program ’City and Technology: Prototyping Future Cities’, we will take a look at some of the key utopian projects of the past and try to define them from both ethical and artistic perspectives.