The Utopian Thinking
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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The utopian thinking
- Capacity to imagine future of breaking convention
- Dream worth fight for
- Inherent - Human "insufficiently programmed for future"
- The needs to deploy this capacity
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Utopian thinking:
-Capacity to imagine a future that breaks "barrier of convention", "dream that worth fighting for"
-Inherent
-Ways to satisfy the needs to deploy this capacity
1 Constructive imagination
2 Religious faith: satisfying thirst for meaning
3 Consumption ideology
4 Intense nationalism
Utopian thinking:
-Capacity to imagine a future that breaks "barrier of convention", "dream that worth fighting for"
-Inherent
-Ways to satisfy the needs to deploy this capacity
1 Constructive imagination
2 Religious faith: satisfying thirst for meaning
3 Consumption ideology
4 Intense nationalism
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SATISFYING THE NEEDs
- Constructive Imagination
- Religious Faith
- Consumption Ideology
- Intense Nationalism
-Ways to satisfy the needs to deploy this capacity
1 Constructive imagination
2 Religious faith: satisfying thirst for meaning
3 Consumption ideology
4 Intense nationalism
1 Constructive imagination
2 Religious faith: satisfying thirst for meaning
3 Consumption ideology
4 Intense nationalism
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other reasons for utopian thinking
- Amusing pastime
- Veiled critics on present evils
- Persuasive means of "leading man to virtue"
- Dystopia: alert of detrimental tendencies
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-Other reasons for utopian thinking:
1 Amusing pastime
2 Veiled critique of present evils
3 Persuasive means of "leading men to virtue" (Sir Philip Sidney on Thomas More's Utopia in 1595)
4 Dystopia thinking: alert us from tendencies that is deemed detrimental to our world
-Other reasons for utopian thinking:
1 Amusing pastime
2 Veiled critique of present evils
3 Persuasive means of "leading men to virtue" (Sir Philip Sidney on Thomas More's Utopia in 1595)
4 Dystopia thinking: alert us from tendencies that is deemed detrimental to our world
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WHY UTOPIAN THINKING?
a FUTURE PATH FORGED BY THE CONCRETE IMAGERY OF OUR VALUES.
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Uptopia thinking - Critic moment
- based on current evils
- point out the "moral codes" being violated
- sense of justice
Critique Moment
- based on current evils: injustice, oppression, ecological devastation
- point out "moral codes" being violated
--> sense of justice
- based on current evils: injustice, oppression, ecological devastation
- point out "moral codes" being violated
--> sense of justice
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UTOPIA THINKING - CONSTRUCTIVE VISION
- Justice is a "debatable" concept - political arguments
- Vision - value, meaning, purpose, direction to strive for
- Constraints of rationale - "limitations of purposive actions"
- Limitations do not have guiding value, we need vision
Constructive Moment
- "Justice is a Debatable concept": Different view on what is considered to be "just"
--> Political arguments 'construct' concrete vision of Utopian Thinking
--> 'Construct' political coalition for a better future.
- Individual (Tan Le): "meaningful deployment of her own powers in the public sphere"
* Point out lack of vision tertiary educations
* Analyze the concept of Vision: connotation of value, meaning, and purpose | beyond reach, YET direction to strive for
- Constrained by Rationale: "Limitations to purposive action"
e.g leadership, relations of power, resources, knowledge.
--> Limitation do not have guiding value, we need Vision though unachievable it may sometime sound
So, "successful utopian constructs must have the power to generate the passion for a political practice that will bring us a little closer to the visions they embody."
- "Justice is a Debatable concept": Different view on what is considered to be "just"
--> Political arguments 'construct' concrete vision of Utopian Thinking
--> 'Construct' political coalition for a better future.
- Individual (Tan Le): "meaningful deployment of her own powers in the public sphere"
* Point out lack of vision tertiary educations
* Analyze the concept of Vision: connotation of value, meaning, and purpose | beyond reach, YET direction to strive for
- Constrained by Rationale: "Limitations to purposive action"
e.g leadership, relations of power, resources, knowledge.
--> Limitation do not have guiding value, we need Vision though unachievable it may sometime sound
So, "successful utopian constructs must have the power to generate the passion for a political practice that will bring us a little closer to the visions they embody."
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Utopian planning - A 200 year tradition
- The classics: Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Pierre Joseph, Frank Lloyd Wright.
- The contemporary: Jane Jacobs, Kevin Lynch, etc.
- Shaping the practices of mainstream planning professionals
- In recent essays,...
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- Urban planning: tradition of utopian thought - 200 years
* The classics: Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Pierre Joseph, Frank Lloyd Wright.
* The contemporary: Jane Jacobs, Kevin Lynch, etc.
--> Shape the practices is mainstream planning profession
- Urban planning: tradition of utopian thought - 200 years
* The classics: Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Pierre Joseph, Frank Lloyd Wright.
* The contemporary: Jane Jacobs, Kevin Lynch, etc.
--> Shape the practices is mainstream planning profession
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Susan Fainstein (1999)
- Material equality
- Cultural diversity
- Democratic participation
- Ecological sustainability
1 Susan Fainstein (1999): prioritize on material equality, cultural diversity, democratic participation and ecological sustainability in a metropolitan milieu
John Friedmann (1987)
- Radical planning
- "Mobilization of the disempowered"
- "Universal emancipation" - Freedom
- Insurgent planning: utopian planning with specific emancipatory practices
- Create a Guilding Normative Images - The "Good City"
2 John Friedmann (1987): focus of radical planning with the "mobilization of the disempowered" --> "universal emancipation", freedom
Insurgent planning (Sandercock 1999): utopian planning with specific emancipatory practices.
*critical analysis of existing condition
*assisting the mobilization of communities
*facilitating social learning from radical practices.
*ensuring the widest possible community participation
*helping to rethink the group's course of action in the light of new understandings
*etc...
Guiding Normative image - The image of the "good city"
Insurgent planning (Sandercock 1999): utopian planning with specific emancipatory practices.
*critical analysis of existing condition
*assisting the mobilization of communities
*facilitating social learning from radical practices.
*ensuring the widest possible community participation
*helping to rethink the group's course of action in the light of new understandings
*etc...
Guiding Normative image - The image of the "good city"
