A Time for New Stories: Protopia (Part 2)

Futures Beyond Utopia/Dystopia Binaries For the past few years, Monika Bielskyte has been developing a vision of the futures that transcends Western-dominant views of utopic and dystopic images. Through her work, Bielskyte has been advancing the concept of Protopia, an expansive and holistic framework anchored in the principles of: plurality, community, celebration of physical presence, regenerative action, symbiotic spirituality, creativity, […]

A Time for New Stories: Solarpunk (Part 1)

Beyond our everyday boring dystopia It’s easy for us to envision bad futures. Popular science fiction is rife with them. Shows like Black Mirror is (mostly) a horror show about technology. Cyberpunk films like Ghost in the Shell to Blade Runner are futures with all-powerful corporations, environmental degradation, unaccountable governments, and society subjugated by technology. What may have once serve […]