The manuscript analysing the comparison between visionary and utopia. The visionary does not relate to physical objects, but rather to concepts of the mind. The visionary can be isolated from reality and introduce irrational or impossible events, and may even resort to lies or pretence. It’s possible to find origin within the research of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, going through Enlightenment. Utopia looks to the future and invents an entity, an ideal value, which acts as a prediction. The concept of utopia, therefore, hopes that an intention, a project or an idea can become a benchmark, around which to realistically direct feasible actions. Utopias predict a future, in which science and advanced technologies create the conditions for a better life style. It is, therefore, an optimistic, positive view of the future. We can find the origins of utopia in Repubblica of Tommaso Moro, going through Richard Buckminster Fuller research.

Boullée the visionary Fuller the utopian

ANNA RITA EMILI
2017-01-01

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The manuscript analysing the comparison between visionary and utopia. The visionary does not relate to physical objects, but rather to concepts of the mind. The visionary can be isolated from reality and introduce irrational or impossible events, and may even resort to lies or pretence. It’s possible to find origin within the research of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, going through Enlightenment. Utopia looks to the future and invents an entity, an ideal value, which acts as a prediction. The concept of utopia, therefore, hopes that an intention, a project or an idea can become a benchmark, around which to realistically direct feasible actions. Utopias predict a future, in which science and advanced technologies create the conditions for a better life style. It is, therefore, an optimistic, positive view of the future. We can find the origins of utopia in Repubblica of Tommaso Moro, going through Richard Buckminster Fuller research.
2017
978-88-95459-29-5
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