International Conference Intentional Communities: Concrete Utopias in History
The International Conference Intentional Communities: Concrete Utopias in History, organised by the HISTOPIA Group and the Transatlantic Network for the Study of Utopias, was held at La Corrala Cultural Centre in Madrid from 25 to 27 October 2021. The Conference sessions were recorded and are available on the YouTube channel RedUtopias which can be accessed by clicking here.
In the context of the Conference, on 25 October, the Fossil Aesthetics group organised Round Table 2, “Fossil Modernity and Intentional Communities”, in which its members presented the research topics they are currently working on.
International Conference Intentional Communities: Concrete Utopias in History
Source: Fernando López Heptener, La presa de Aldeadávila, 1963, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X_yduTT1EQ. Spain is one of the countries with the largest number of dams, about 1,200. Many were built during Franco’s dictatorship as part of his emblematic hydraulic policy, aimed at addressing post-war social, economic, and energy crises. Aside from the failed autarkic economic project, this…
Photograph: Elena Lavellés. Cranes at the Valdemingómez landfill. Documentation visit 2024. The limits of nature are dissolved under layers of cement, CO2 emitted into the atmosphere and waste produced from the activity of human beings. This overview leads us to a new vision that exceeds our capacity of comprehension and places us on the edge…
On the occasion of the exhibition ‘Archivo ecologista. Memoria y cultura visual del ecologismo en Valencia durante los años setenta’, held at the Centro La Nau of the University of Valencia between March and June of this year, a book-catalogue has been published which presents both the materials of the exhibition and, more broadly, a…
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