Festival of Ideas: Utopian Cities: Learning from the Ruins

Utopian Cities: Learning from the Ruins
Sat 21 May 2016, 10:00-11:30
Watershed
Free, but booking required

Charles Burdett, Alex Marsh and Eugene Byrne consider examples of utopian planning from the past– Italian Fascism, the rise of local authority and New Town housing as a response to problems related to urbanisation, and the ideas for post-war Bristol after much of the central part of the city was destroyed in the Blitz – to explore how ideas of the modern had an impact on the imagination and collective practices of different groups.

Part of Creating Real Utopias in the 21st Century, a two-day festival in association with the University of Bristol’s Anticipation Research Group. Supported by the AHRC Connected Communities Programme, the University of Bristol Brigstow Institute and the Cabot Institute.

Prebooking is required. You need to show your ticket at the door.

We have restricted the number of tickets that can be booked to one per transaction. This has been introduced in an effort to stop people automatically booking multiple tickets without confirming if they have guests to go with them. We hope this will help to limit the number of 'no shows' at the events, which currently run at around 35% of bookings. We will monitor the situation. If you need more than one ticket, you can click on the booking link again. The little extra effort involved will hopefully put off those who don’t really need more than one, but not those who do.

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