Utopian projects. Artistic strategy to enhance imagination and creative capacity, for the benefit of society
Abstract
The article deals with the realization of collaborative work within the context of university
and teaching research, where the creation of utopian artistic projects that are beneficial for the
individual and society in the future is proposed. We propose to solve problems, discover and invent,
starting from the trigger of a work that begins with an exercise in creative visualization, projecting
seemingly impossible ideas that can hypothetically be solved in the future. We develop proposals
through the language of contemporary art in a transdisciplinary way that can improve the well-being of
the individual and positively collaborate in the evolution of humanity towards a better future. We start
from existing precedents in current art together with the latest scientific and technological discoveries,
we pay attention to some of the most optimistic views of transhumanist philosophy, science fiction, the
utopian post-cyberpunk subgenre and scientific references of modern physics, such as Michio Kaku
(1947); especially quantum, Max Planck (1858-1947); contemporary psychiatry, Brian Weiss (1944);
or the artistic one, Mariko Mori (1967) Saraceno (1973), Ilya and Emilia Kabakov (1933 and 1945),
Harbisson (1984) and Moon (1985).
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