Attainable Utopias?

The Positive Possible

• The term ‘Attainable Utopias’ was coined in 2001 to challenge the vision-less brand of pragmatism that was emerging in politics and industry.
• Its founders, John Wood at Goldsmiths, London University) and Andrew Carmichael, (Director of the Creative Process) were puzzled.
• Why had humanity failed to create a new 'vision' for the new millennium?
• Why, despite unparalleled access to resources, knowledge, and technology, had we become so pessimistic and cynical?
• Their conclusion was that whilst, as voters and consumers, we have become experts at choosing and complaining, we have forgotten how to dream.
• Without new dreams humanity may easily become extinct.

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