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lightness (utop ia )

Plein 13 / Academie van Bouwkunst Arnhem / Lichtheid en Utopia / January 12, 2013

Thomas Moore (+1516) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2130

“He that knows one knows them all, they are so alike one another.” !

Sir Thomas Moore (a precognition of the hive mind)

“He that knows one knows them all, they are so alike one another.” !

Sir Thomas Moore (a precognition of the franchise mind)

Voynich manuscript (+1404-1438) http://www.voynich.nu

City of Truth Bartolomeo Del Bene http://www.spamula.net/blog/2006/06/civitas_veri_1.html

Palmanova, Udine, Italia (1593) 45°54′N 13°19′E

lightness (sprezzatura)

The New Atlantis Francis Bacon, 1626 http://www.constitution.org/bacon/new_atlantis.htm

The New Atlantis Francis Bacon, 1626 http://www.constitution.org/bacon/new_atlantis.htm

Optics and Astronomy

The New Atlantis Francis Bacon, 1626 http://www.constitution.org/bacon/new_atlantis.htm

Genetic Modification

The New Atlantis Francis Bacon, 1626 http://www.constitution.org/bacon/new_atlantis.htm

Communication

Campo Marzio Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1762) http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3171144?uid=3738736&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21101517121243

Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma (1762) Eisenman Architects, Yale University, Dogma

http://news.yale.edu/2012/07/16/yale-school-architecture-professor-and-students-reinvent-rome-venice-biennale

Utopian-Dystopian Circular section London, 1872 !

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Paul Gustave Doré (a precognition of 20th century ideologies)

500.000 BC - 1850 !

(against forces)

1850-1950 !

(transitional)

1950 >>> !

(natural)

Richard Buckminster Fuller Man on Earth: Transport Species

26% of earth’s surface is dry land.

85% of all earth’s dry land is here shown.

86% of all dry land shown is above equator.

The whole of the human family could stand on Bermuda.

All crowded into England they would have 14sq. mtr. each.

!“United we stand, divided we fall”

is correct mentally and spiritually but

falacious physically or materially.

!2,000,000,000 new homes will be required in the next 80 years. !Richard Buckminster Fuller, 1928 !!

“We are concerned with mooring first class habitation to the earth’s surface.” !

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Richard Buckminster Fuller (1932) (a precognition of 21th century heterotopias)

utopia (b iomass)

bi·o·mass /’bīō¸mas/ !Noun 1. The total quantity or weight of organisms in a given area or volume. 2. Organic matter used as a fuel.

bi·o·mass /’bīō¸mas/ !Noun 1. The total quantity or weight of organisms in a given area or volume. 2. Organic matter used as a fuel. 3. Organic matter perceived as a form of transitory intelligence

Oliviero Toscani (concept) Benetton Campaign Spring-Summer 1992

Neal Stephenson Snow Crash, 1992 ISBN-13: 978-0553380958

two films, produced by the student team

fin

Ronald van Tienhoven 2013Overview projects - http://www.slideshare.net/rvtienhoven/ronald-van-tienhoven-projects19932013