Sentences with phrase «utopian experiments»

As Hyde states with regards to where his interest lie «the utopian experiments of in design from William Morris to Brasilia; this is all involved in sort of the type of adventure of the aesthetic into new territories, and this both internalization and externalization of ideas of looking and how that effects people personally and even morally.»

This utopian experiment came to an end in 1957, but not before it created the conditions for some of the twentieth century's most fertile ideas, having an enormous impact on American postwar cultural life.

This utopian experiment came to an end in 1957, but not before it created the conditions for some of the twentieth century's most fertile ideas and most influential individual artists to emerge.

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On Tuesday, moments after finding out about the layoffs and leadership upheaval at the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, I asked Tony Hsieh by phone why he stepped down as leader of the utopian startup city he had founded, and why he had continued act as head of the ambitious experiment in the desert despite having already handed over the reins to his lawyer and a team of executives.

We've conducted a thought experiment in response to those questions and in this chapter it has yielded some elements of a utopian proposal about a theological school.

Now a thought experiment and an invitation: The experiment is one more utopian exercise in sketching what makes a theological school theological and what makes a theological school a school.

(If there's a more utopian metaphor for the ongoing social experiment known as the USA, it hasn't been unearthed yet.)

Alongside directors, nations and material cultures, there are also specific themes — sometimes less materialist and more tuned in to the utopian possibilities of the imagination — that can be drawn out from the ever - swirling mass of experiments in filmmaking and creative writing about film.

Amanda Rose Wilder's Approaching the Elephant is a remarkable document of a utopian schooling experiment that shows great restraint in withholding judgment on its outcomes.

The Source Family was a radical experiment in»70s utopian living.

This attempt at a utopian ideal starts off promising, but soon the gentle equilibrium among the families disintegrates: unspoken resentments between the couples begin to fester; the project's funding becomes tenuous; and Izzy's growing feelings for Dr. Grind make her question her participation in this strange experiment in the first place.

Uncentered, unattached and featuring constantly evolving parameters, these objects were primarily artistic experiments that expressed an earnest belief in the utopian power of art at a precise time when the West's reigning art ideology had definitively abandoned the idea of utopia as such.

The exhibit, which investigates experiments in utopian living through the colony, is abstractly based on Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead, the community's under - recognized matriarch and her relationship to nature, spirituality and the failed vision she had for herself and her family.

This screening of HD transfers of Stan VanDerBeek's short animated films, as well as unpublished documentation from his Cine Dreams projects, examines the utopian film experiments that he undertook after his studies at Black Mountain College.

Several international museums have marked this occasion with exhibi - tions on the idealist, utopian, and radical art that proliferated in the 1910s and 20s, before the Marxist experiment went awry and Stalin clamped down on free expression.1 The Art Institute of Chicago's Fall 2017 exhibition, entitled Revoliutsiia!

Combined with ideas stemming from the social sphere such as ecological protests and utopian scientific experiments, this project takes an approach that links to current theoretical developments in the areas of cultural identity, models for communities and social and political activism.

Omega Workshop is both a survey of contemporary experiments in revolutionary and utopian dress, and a laboratory for exploring alternatives to the current fashion system.

They developed an aesthetic and spatial language around their research interests, ranging from utopian social theory and architectural history, to urban nature experiments.

His desire for the utopian led him to work with Ken Knowlton in a co-operation at Bell Labs, where dozens of computer animated films and holographic experiments were created by the end of the 1960s.

Omega Workshop functions both as a survey of contemporary experiments in revolutionary and utopian dress, and as a laboratory for exploring alternatives to the current fashion system.