{"id":1292,"date":"2011-10-20T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/stealth\/updates\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2018-09-24T13:55:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T11:55:17","slug":"once-upon-a-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon a Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once Upon a Future is an imaginary fast-forward to a possible Bordeaux in 2030 \u2013 the target year by which the city today projects to reach the magic number of one million inhabitants. This work of social fiction, made in the format of a novelle and exhibition, starts from the question – how would the future look if citizen’s collective capacity would grow and become Bordeaux’s main driving force? Curated by STEALTH.unlimited and Emil Jurcan, and made in collaboration with architecture center arc en reve, Once Upon a Future features contributions by writer and philosopher Bruce B\u00e9gout and a number of graphic and comic artists. It has been produced for the biannual Evento 2011 directed by artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, under the motto “art for an urban re-evolution”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Exhibition view at Les Abattoirs, Bordeaux<\/p><\/div>\n

[utopia]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today, in the context of a lasting ‘financial’ crisis that increasingly calls into question many aspects of our society, it is vital to discuss different futures, alternative paths, and solutions. On the other hand, previous experiences show us that it is not possible to materialize a utopian society in space first, and then implement new ways of living in it; quite the opposite, in fact. Still, it is possible to imagine a future for our cities based on a different kind of utopia, more pragmatic and less theoretical, more immanent and less transcendent: a hybrid utopia, somewhere between desire and reality.<\/p>\n

[citizen’s initiatives]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Inspired by meetings with present-day groups of active citizens from Bordeaux, Once Upon a Future extrapolates how the motives, visions and commitments of citizens might prefigure new ways to make the city, by developing new forms of mutual solidarity and collective organization, beyond competition and individualism. Such networks, like \u2013 housing cooperatives, artistic production collectives, elderly people associations, social centers, community gardens, etc \u2013 have the potential to produce another form of life in the city, which is a precondition for another form of urban landscape.<\/p>\n