Conference program

Given the current state of the world, one could ponder whether dystopia would not be a more apt theme for a CCT conference? Especially so given the pressures that our consumer culture is currently putting on the world. It is, however, impossible to even imagine utopia without the constant presence of the distorted mirror image of dystopia. Especially so given that it is also becoming increasingly clear that one group’s utopia might very well represent another group’s dystopia, and vice versa.

 

However, to reduce utopia to a fantasy without any connection to reality would be a mistake. More than anything else, utopia can help us to think up unimaginable futures that transcend the boundaries of today.

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