Month: May 2016

Text by Anna Katarrh, Institute of Utopian Studies Illustrations by Thom Cuschieri Utopia, Nowhere Utopia is a place that is also a no-place (ou-topos: no-place, nowhere). Utopian thought is concerned with material structures, with concrete notions of a better socio-political world, situated in the here and now, ‘placed’ in our world. At the same time,

Illustrations and text by Alberto Favaro In the town hall of Siena, inside the Council Room, there is a cycle of frescoes painted in 1339 by Ambrogio Lorenzetti. They form two allegories, each composed of two representations: the good and the bad government with their relative effects. While in the allegory of good government a