Università della Svizzera italiana

Between utopian image and heterotopic reality : thinking/imagining participatory planning (and also hospitality) starting from reality

Bevilacqua, Maria Giovanna

In: Proceedings, 2017, vol. 1, no. 9, p. 873

Utopia is a place that does not exist; utopia is a non-existent model society in a non-existent model space. Utopia is an image. According to the definition given by Michel Foucault, hétéropies, unlike utopias, are places that actually exist. Heterotopies are at the same time non-physical and real and physical spaces. In the modern Western world, characterised by multiculturalism and by an...