Research Catalog

Title

Utopia/dystopia : a paradigm shift in art and architecture / edited by Padro Gadanho ; with João Laia and Susana Ventura.

Publication

Milano : Mousse Publishing, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gadanho, Pedro
• MAAT (Lisbon, Portugal), host institution.

Description

254 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm.

Summary

• This reader contains previously unpublished essays on the ongoing transition from the 500-year-old notion of utopia, toward the pervasive ubiquity of its opposite: dystopia. The authors gathered here were asked to discuss this tension.
• Utopia/Dystopia is the first "manifesto exhibition" at MAAT's new building. Establishing a dialogue with the site-specific commissions at the museum's Oval Gallery, these group shows present side by side works of artists and architects who, in their respective fields, have produced insights and critical reflections on crucial themes of our times. Echoing the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia, the show reveals how the dichotomy between utopia and dystopia reflects a time of paradoxical acceleration, where anxiety and optimism collide. Today, technological developments stimulate expectations of enhanced connectivity and a better quality of life. However, cyclical crises also constantly disturb the social, political and ecological spheres. With utopian and dystopian narratives typically emerging in such troubled periods, artists and architects, writers or filmmakers are crucial in proposing contradictions and proposing illuminating new possibilities. Encompassing a wide range of ideas, from a profound reflexion on the downfall of Modernism to the current political scene, Utopia/Dystopia promotes a dialogue between more than 60 artworks and projects that present unique views on the subject since the early 1970s.--Museum website.

Subjects

• Architecture, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Architecture, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Art, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Dystopias in art > Exhibitions
• Utopias in art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• v – Exhibition catalogs.
• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the MAAT, Museum Art Architecture Technology, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2, 2016-February 6, 2017, March 21-August 14, 2017.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Text in English and Portuguese.

Contents

Pynchon Park / Dominique Gonzales-Foerster -- Utopia/Dystopia : a brief history of an uncomfortable duality / Pedro Gadanho -- The imaginable as post-Utopia goal : on the necessity of redefining the concept of Utopia / João Laia -- Welcome to Paradise / Susan Ventura -- Architecture and the Dystopian trap / Antoine Picon -- Impossible / Keller Easterling -- Futurability map : reframing the conceptual couple Utopia/Dystopia / Franco Berardi -- Affirmative ethics, sustainable futures / Rosi Braidotti.

ISBN

• 9788867492800
• 8867492802

OCLC

• ocn987268204
• 987268204
• SCSB-1885057

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library