Scenari postpandemia

In addition to the terrible grief it brought – and continues to bring – by taking away so many of our loved ones, the Covid-19 pandemic has obviously led to reaction and reflection on potential future outcomes. This first volume of ÈUTOPIA from the International Series of Utopian Studies and Projects – brings together the writings of members of the scientific committee who were invited to explore possible post-pandemic scenarios. The wide variety of texts, accompanied by images and artworks, constitutes a documentary corpus on current events and an attempt to outline a potential hypothesis of behaviour, mostly linked to future strategies and approaches for building a different use of the landscape to come, in which cities, in all their various forms – metropolis, post-metropolis, globopolis – remain the greatest human testimony.

The ÈUtopia series, of which this is the first Notebook, aims to present to a wider audience the projects and theoretical constructs that take thinking beyond the narrow realm of the everyday and project it towards the future. So its pages will host works, solutions, designs, predictions and theories which are often the result of introverted and personal elaboration, but which have the privilege of offering the reader unfamiliar subject matter, acting – as though such understanding wished, as is reasonable to expect, to become reality, or often only to make the world a better place. “Utopia”, in the words of Eugenio Battisti, to whom the series is dedicated, “is an enormous game of chess with destiny, which should always be played from the start; it could be described as the design of designs, the great quest for novelty and concreteness, the engine that drives society to find the right solutions through repudiation of tradition and the courage to experiment”.