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,
Month: May 2016
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