This podcast episode is related to the live event at Grand Café Utopie on Sunday November 16th ‘The Political Potential of Utopia‘.
Short biographies
Josephine (Josie) Chambers is an Assistant Professor in the Urban Futures Studio at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. Her research develops and examines approaches to questioning so-called ‘inevitable’ unjust futures and fostering collective imagination and agency towards more just and sustainable societies. She weaves together critical and artistic concepts and approaches to collaboratively explore possibilities for transformative changes with diverse societal groups. Josie shares recent experiments in social dreaming in her blog Utopian Pulses. Her latest publication Utopia*Art*Politics is a collection of work by 33 artist-researcher practitioners experimenting with how artistic practices can enable radical imagination and politics.
Marco Van Duijn is a practising lawyer, co-founder of the Dutch Association for Animal Law, chair of the Cooperative Association Utopie U.A., and chair of the Utopie Foundation. Van Duijn is also a member of the Association for Environmental Law and has a pod cast about politics called Recht voor Allen (Justice for All). Over the past decades, Van Duijn has been involved in various anti-capitalist organisations and networks and has established several political social centres in his home town. The most recent is Grand Cafe Utopie, a meeting place for idealists.
Start livestream: 20:30
