How To Hack Utopias

Looking forward to expanding on some earlier ideas explored in my blog, “How to Hack Utopias: Speculative Interventions for a Sustainable City.” These innovative design proposals were generated in a multi-disciplinary seminar that I taught at UIUC, during which students were asked: What are the utopias of the twentieth-first century? What are their recent histories and theories, and how do they differ from utopian projects of other eras? Are contemporary utopian impulses critical, projective, or building as usual? What role does technology, aesthetics, and politics play in current efforts to secure utopian ideals? https://modernutopias.wordpress.com/intro/