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__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 forms of social coherence. The peripheral regions in Europe are facing a crisis triangle: depopulation, the rise of the ‘useless’ class, and outdated social welfare systems. It is a crisis of political imaginaries and a lack of inspiring political stories. In response to this, the book specifically focuses on the concept of ‘retopia’, the idea of creating inclusive spaces of social innovation that encourage active participation. Through the creation of relocalized societies with a high degree of autonomy in ‘leftover’ spaces, such as Sicily, Western Latvia, or Northern Bulgaria, retopian redevelopment schemes offer new perspectives on ‘ruined spaces’. __Retopia__ uncovers the common links and limitations of utopian studies, future studies, degrowth, narratology, the commons, and politica

Who reads Retopia: Creating New Spaces of Possibility?

Author

Dirk Hoyer

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780367255145

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Nature, Sociology, Economics