Creating new pathways through everyday life in a network of actions throughout New York City.
The Summit for Practical Utopians was a weeklong summit of ideas that was designed to integrate utopian thinking into our everyday lives. Thirteen planners created an app (now in beta) that allows participants to choose new pathways through their day to day, and shift their thinking and practice in community with others.
For iOS As the Detrainer App is in a beta stage, in order to install it on your iPhone we need to register you as an official beta tester. Please contact us at kochta@nexgo.de and we’ll guide you through the registration process.
For Android Download the Detrainer App (beta) to your device by pressing the button below.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us: kochta@nexgo.de
The term “Practical Utopia” reflects the desire for large scale changes to the current system of society by initiating the first practical steps towards these changes right here and now. “Practical Utopia” insists on the necessity of Utopia as an intellectual concept interlinking the fantastical and the pragmatic in bringing about social, political and artistic change.
The Summit was the last section of the Practical Utopia series. We invite you to join us as we notice individual decision-making and intervene directly in social interactions & social norms, playing with and challenging how we relate to each other and the world.
Welcome to The Retreat! Besides enjoying our time away from NYC, we will facilitate conversations around specific themes, including: How can we unlearn and experiment more with routines and behaviours embedded in our social interactions? How does urban space shape our social interactions, both overtly and subconsciously? How do we make the “normal?” The concrete outcome of the retreat will be a collectively-designed app that outlines a 6-day de-training program to use with our social interactions and daily routines.
Date: Saturday, 7 July 2018 – Sunday, 8 July 2018 Location: Red Cables, Brookfield, MA
Time to meet and greet with the participants of the Summit of Practical Utopian. Let’s check up the latest experiences, exchange ideas and edit old exercises and create new ones. No need to sign up. Free entry.
Date: Wednesday, 11 July 2018 Time: 7 – 9 PM Location: The Armory, 67 4th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Come celebrate your new practical utopian muscles with all the participants of the Summit of Practical Utopians at a picnic in beautiful Central Park, Sheep Meadow. Culture Push and YKON will supply some snacks and drinks, and you can bring something share! Please RSVP so we can bring enough for all. Once you reply, we will send any special instructions before Saturday.
Date: Saturday, 14 July 2018 Time: 5-9 pm Location: Central Park, Sheep Meadow, 1802 65th Street Transverse, New York, NY 10065
YKON is a non profit art organization, that was founded as an artistic initiative and platform for exploring utopian fantasies and the political imaginary in relation to concrete sociopolitical structures and concerns.
Culture Push is an arts organization that works with hands-on learning, group problem solving, serious play, and creating connections.
The Summit of Practical Utopians was in part financed by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.