Sentences with phrase «building utopia»

We could also put an end to Mexican illegal immigration problems by building a utopia of farming and industrial centers with wonderful housing and communities, all built just south of the boarder.

Dystopia and anti-utopia are not interchangeable, and as terms describe parallel conditions which emerge from diametrically opposed motives: dystopia describes a deliberately oppressive society, built from its foundations as a structure of tyranny; while anti-utopia describes a more complex circumstance where the conditions for building utopia fail, and the results amount to those of a dystopian society.

«They went to experience and absorb the culture and styles, from which we built the utopia of a hidden African country that had never been colonized,» Till explains.

And in the form of Killmonger, it goes one step further and asks what it means to build a utopia and keep it to oneself.

I was really interested in stepping out of this blanket dystopia and to think more holistically about what it's like to build a utopia.»

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Out of the bubbling ferment of the revivalistic reform movements arose a series of American attempts to build God's Kingdom on earth, to achieve a genuine utopia where all the present evils would be overcome, where the first fruits of the new age would be visible.

People are doers who can build a road toward utopia.

Paul Ryan departs on a bathysphere halfway through his plan to build a conservative utopia underwater, leaves us no guidance for what to do about the splicers.

This kids» utopia features climbing walls, rope courses, building blocks, caves and slides, plus a Soft Play area for kids under 8.

[11] A realistic utopia built around the principle of effective freedom would be particularly appealing to women.

Last year, she was in talks about taking over a factory on an island outside of Venice where they could build a kind of artisan utopia, but the plans fell through.

His aim is to take the commodification out of fashion and create clothes that, like Band of Outsiders strived to do, are meant to be lived in: «I started thinking about brands and how the greatest of brands can actually be something meaningful, how they can create a sense of community and commonality, entertain us and tell stories and help us escape — and so I started thinking about this idea of utopia, building a perfect world from scratch.»

The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).

Fight, build, negotiate and technologically advance your way to utopia, in a deep single player campaign, on random maps and against friends in multiplayer.

The game takes place in 2035, atop an isolated city floating in the sea, built to be the ultimate utopia called, «The Ark.» And what would a utopia be if it didn't ultimately become dystopian?

Whether you create a city replete with traffic jams, natural disasters, and piles of corpses lining the street, or create a vegan utopia with the Green Cities expansion, you are bound to have fun in this city building game.

From terrifying spaceships, underwater Utopias to a fantastical city in the sky, Irrational have always been able to build a convincing world and lead you through it with some of the best storytelling in the business.

Fight, build, negotiate and technologically advance the way to utopia, in a deep single player campaign, on random maps and against friends in multiplayer.

They sling readymade fabric over stretchers and call it painting (Thomas Sauter), download open - source software to build digital utopias (Emanuel Rossetti), splice samples of Ciara and R. Kelly with disregard for copyright (Hannah Weinberger), and scan the holograms of CDs with the choreography of a graffiti tagger (Tobias Madison).

The crystallised model becomes the physical yet ghostly rendering of a missing building, highlighting the deterioration and decay of the city due to government neglect, and thereby reveals the fragile line between utopia and reality.

Isotopia is the parallel world, utopia infernal, built from the table of isotopes which serves as a workshop and exhibition Continue Reading»

Throughout the show, Cianciolo brought together fashion and art, performance and installation, past and present, building a creative utopia where visitors could eat, pray, read, and feel inspired enough to go on themselves to innovate, without fear of arbitrary boundaries — with the openness, indeed, of a child.

In his exhibition Total Reflective Abstraction, he uses a silvered glass technique to build on the theories of Isamu Noguchi and Buckminster Fuller proposing a completely reflective «utopia.»

For example, a very interesting common theoretical standpoint that was shared and jointly built during this week, was the understanding of black radical imagination as a Marxist approach that could engage utopia and a post-capitalist future from the perspectives of class, race and gender politics.

Thomas Ruff's shaky, saturated photographs of modernist buildings speaks to their unrealized promise of utopia.

For Perez, the buildings he paints represent an optimism tinged with the sadness of an impossible utopia.

At its best, her show conveys an exhilarating sense of the school as an educational utopia in which one might have helped to build a new seminar room in the morning, thrown pots in the afternoon, studied history in the evening, and criticized after dinner, just as one pleased, without ever becoming a builder, potter, historian, or critic.

In 2010, he had two solo shows: Bicho Geográfico (Geographic Beast), a site - specific installation at Acclamation Palace, an eighteenth century building, in which the artist gave a unique reading of Brazilian historical icons; and Transverso (Transverse), at Paulo Darzé Gallery, which gathered projects about the end of modernist utopias.

«Amy Wilson reveals an ambitious set of works that center around the themes of utopia and building a new world.

This artist has grown up in a place where there are full - scale utopias, their thinking has been profoundly influenced by Brazilian modernist architecture and even more, by its contrast with the visible at the foot of its buildings precariousness.

On his own block on the South Side of Chicago, Gates has engineered a miniature urban utopia, turning the once - blighted buildings that surround him into artist residencies, a library and even a cinema house that shows works by aspiring filmmakers from the neighborhood.

This vision of Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation, the architect's communal utopia, and one of the most important modernist buildings of all time, recalls the work of Cezanne, Mondrian and Richter, simultaneously blurring the distinction between dream and memory.

Instead, their main subjects consist of empty rusting oil barrels, derelict buildings and walls, tires, abandoned cars; a junkyard utopia.

Local building and zoning restrictions, not to mention securing startup money to buy land, are just a few of the obstacles to achieving a cottage - laden utopia.

Ethereum evangelists are working to build this digital utopia.

Fleeing what they see as the impending taxation of their newfound fortunes, wealthy cryptocurrency investors are heading en masse to Puerto Rico, with their hearts set on building a crypto utopia.

Clearly, a compelling vision, clear road map and creativity are required to build Africa's urban utopias of the future.