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Utopianism is having a moment. Everything from the box office success of big-budget science fiction films like Interstellar and The Martian to the groundswell of support for the Green New Deal ...

Utopianism is having a moment. Everything from the box office success of big-budget science fiction films like Interstellar and The Martian to the groundswell of support for the Green New Deal signals our revival of the utopian imaginary—of our desire to construct and inhabit an idealized world. Already, we can see this impulse reflected in the renderings of the UN-endorsed Oceanix project; the Rebuild by Design competition in New York after Hurricane Sandy; and Bjarke Ingels’s recently released plan for human settlements on Mars. Of course, this renewed public faith in utopian design…

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