POPS stands for Privately Owned Public Spaces. It’s a weired concept and many of the spaces reflect that. It is essentially a deal between a private developer and the city andministration; in…

The next exercise brought a group of strangers together in a tiny flat in the bronx to create a temporary utopian enclave with shared memories of home, especially when hurrican Maria had…

The secret instructor left no doubt with the first message: If you text back to this message you’re out of the game! This was the first important part of the days practice,…

The 4th Exercise brought us to Mayday Space in Bushwick. The exercise was designed by James Andre aka Pattern Detector (+ multiple other synonyms). Taking it’s starting point from popular education in…

The third exercise of Practical Utopia was with Aricoco and her curious prompts. These prompts created a new – social insect – way of experiencing your otherwise regular day. She sent tasks…

After taking part to Exercise Number 2 by Walis Johnson YKON developed a simple android app which allows you to actually walk on the “redlining” map for Brooklyn. When walking around in…

Walis Johnson guided a walk around Crown Heights in Brooklyn discussing the long term effects of the so called redlining, a mapping effort from 1938 in which neighborhoods were graded from First…

The first exercise took place in Rego Park in Queens at the Studio of Yvonne Shortt. Yvonne works with local people and a number of interns and assistants at the Alderton House,…

Below you can download the game YKON developed for the tutorial session on Saturday. The goal of the game is to train your Utopian imagination. After downloading print the pdf. Ideally page…

Today the 7 Exercises finally kicked off with the YKON tutorial: “How to become a Practical Utopian in 3 Easy steps” The event took place at the first of the Random Bars,…