The notion of Radical Imagination to change the world. Connections and differences with the Buckminster Fuller’s vision
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https://doi.org/10.18537/auc.61.04Keywords:
collective action, Anthropocene, Buckminster Fuller, Design Revolution, radical imagination, Posthumanism, sustainability, transdisciplinarityAbstract
This article introduces the notion of Radical Imagination as a way to engage with the challenges that humanity is currently facing in the context of the climate emergency. On the notion of radical imagination, we will dwell on the considerations on imagination developed by Cornelius Castoriadis, to contrast them with the one hand with the work of Richard Buckminster Fuller and on the other with current art and design projects driven by a contemporary approach to radical imagination. We will delve into how in the 20th century Fuller was guided by the radical anticipatory imagination to propose what he coined as a Design Revolution that would prevent his omens about a collapsing planet Earth from coming true. We will delve into two of his projects in which he aimed to change the perception of the world and the ways we inhabit the planet Earth, collectively and transdisciplinarily organized. The future to which Fuller’s imaginaries appealed at the dawn and development of Capitalism is the Anthropocene of our present in the 21st century. In contrast to Fuller’s radical anticipatory imagination, we will examine four contemporary projects in which design, art, architecture and science point out ways of transdisciplinary and collective action driven by a radical imagination. This will be done from a posthumanist perspective.
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