Between the 1970s and the early 1980s Manfredo Tafuri and Frederic Jameson took two divergent stances concerning the potential role of utopian thinking in architectural and urban design. Manifestly, what was at stake in their debate was the legacy of the Modern notion of design as an effective tool for both material and socio-political transformation. What lessons can be taken, nowadays, from that confrontation?
Ideological retreat or active engagement: Tafuri, Jameson, and the two faces of utopia / Rispoli, Ernesto Ramon. - (2015). (Intervento presentato al convegno How We Live, How We Might Live. Design and the Spirit of Critical Utopianism tenutosi a California College of the Arts, San Francisco (USA) nel 11-13 settembre 2015).
Ideological retreat or active engagement: Tafuri, Jameson, and the two faces of utopia
Ernesto Ramon Rispoli
2015
Abstract
Between the 1970s and the early 1980s Manfredo Tafuri and Frederic Jameson took two divergent stances concerning the potential role of utopian thinking in architectural and urban design. Manifestly, what was at stake in their debate was the legacy of the Modern notion of design as an effective tool for both material and socio-political transformation. What lessons can be taken, nowadays, from that confrontation?I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
