1st Edition

Retopia: Creating New Spaces of Possibility

By Dirk Hoyer Copyright 2023
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

Retopia tells the story of social innovation in times of crisis, and through its cross-disciplinary narrative it goes beyond existing forms of future anticipation and maps out a practice-based approach to the creation of new realities. It explores how new imaginaries, social experiments, and laboratories of societies can create spaces of possibilities, revalidate the peripheries, and create new... Read more

Preface

1. Political Agency in the Age of Downsized Expectations

2. Retelling the Story

3. The New Commons

4. The Nowherelands: From Outopia to Eutopia

5. Retopia as an Innovation System

6. The Practice of Possibility

Epilogue: Stories from an Open Future

Biography

Dirk Hoyer is Associate Professor at Tallinn University, Estonia. He has published numerous articles and a book on political imaginaries and retopia. Hoyer is also a writer, filmmaker, and script consultant.