Gradually moving away from the hegemonic paradigms of modernity which imposed a one-world ontology, a passing of knowledge based upon hierarchy, rather than care, BAUTOPIA 1 embraces differences, and explores new and transversal ways of creating knowledge together.
How can we, in this post-pandemic turmoil, gradually move away from the screen, and learn from each other’s presence and time?
Texts in BAUTOPIA 1 go from a kitchen cooperative in Athens, in which food acts as a language and space for sharing, to more broadly re-thinking productivity at the workplace through the power of friend- ship in Porto. By turning seemingly solitary practices such as writing, printing, publishing, and architecture into collective ones, contributors from Belgrade, Warsaw and Brussels, explore working together to enforce their creative potential.
From formats of spending time together, to making sense of the artists’ role in response to the misinformation era, to post-digital practices and ecologies of care; BAUTOPIA 1 proposes new models and tools for re-imagining the current forms of knowledge-sharing, togetherness, and artistic creation.
