Utopias World and Frontiers of the Imaginary Proceedings of the 2nd International Multidisciplinary Congress, October 20-22, 2016, Lisbon, Portugal

Content: PART I Utopia(s) - Worlds and Frontiers of the Imaginary    Utopia: A world to be, through denegation and affirmation of collective consciousness  A.A. do Nascimento    The four modes of thinking framed by utopian discursivity. Or why we need Utopia  F. Vieira    Miguel Real's O Ultimo Europeu 2284, or a utopian questioning of our individual and collective freedom  A. Kalewska    PART II Architecture-Urbanism-Design    The utopia of paradise in architecture-gardens, countryside, and landscape in Roman and Renaissance villas  I. Pires Fernandes    Geometry of power: Ideal geometrical shapes in military Renaissance architecture of Ducato di Urbino and Venice Republic 1478-1593  P. Bortot    Harmony as a tangible utopia  J.L. Morgado    The perfect dwelling is any place in the heavens: Platonism, mathematics and music: On Kepler's thoughts and the theory of architecture in the Renaissance  C.G. Goncalves    Architecture and built utopia. Icons and symbols in the rural landscape of J.N. Ledoux  D. Chizzoniti, L. Cattani, M. Moscatelli & L. Preis    Amplifying reality through quadratura: Contrappunto among corporeal and visual space  J. Cabeleira    The utopian moment: The language of positivism in modern architecture and urbanism  M. Wilson    Threshold and mediation devices in the domestic space approach  B. Leite    A utopia in the real city  E. Kuchpil & A. Pimentel Dos Santos    Utopia or a good place to live: Giszowiec "Garden City" in Upper Silesia  M. Zmudzinska-Nowak    From the garden city to the red village: Howard's utopia as the ground for mass housing in Soviet Russia  I. Seits    Utopian visions in the Portuguese city: An interpretation of Planos Gerais de Urbanizacao  J.C. Dias    Staging modernism: Case study homes and suburban subdivisions  A. Novakov    An appropriation experience of the empty space  A. Soares Haidar & D. Getlinger    "We dream of silence": Adriano Olivetti and Luigi Cosenza in the Pozzuoli factory, Naples. Utopia and reality in the workspace  R. Maddaluno    Radical and utopic: The mega-structuralist formalization of house and city  A.M. Feliciano & A. Santos Leite    Viennese utopia-the expression of revolutionary architectural thought  A. Serafin    Lemons into lemonade: Materializing utopian planning in Providence, Rhode Island (RI)  C. Balsas    Utopia in Terra Brasilis: Lina Bo Bardi's design for an ideal future  M.D.A. Nascimento & E. de Almeida    Small utopias. Influence of social factors on spatial development of ecological settlement structures  A. Szewczenko    Architectural imprints and performing the imaginary  V. Zugic    From Rotor to utopia? On Rotor, Fourier and the relation between architecture and utopia  F. Deotto & M. Garcia    Postmodern questions about Progetto e utopia  J. Nunes    House of utopia: An interface for creativity  J. Silveira Dias    Part III Arts    Considerations on colour techniques in Italian Renaissance painting  M.J. Durao    Colour harmony: The ideality of pleasurableness  S. Akbay Yenigul & M.J. Durao    Colors with imagined memories  D. Loucao    Restoration of historic monuments as utopia: The bell tower(s) of Santa Maria de Belem church  V. Mariz    Worlds and real and imaginary borders: Mediation stages or creation as a will to shine  A. Santos Guerreiro    Expressionist utopia and dystopia (architecture, literature, film)  H. Grzeszczuk-Brende    Nothing but something else. Displaying social dystopia  M. Germano Marques    Notes on the drawing [sketch] as the architect's imaginary  A.R. Ortega & S. Weihermann    Sources and references in the utopian work of Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos  A. Canau    Contemporary utopias in art and architecture: Searching for spiritual significance in the work of John Pawson and Anselm Kiefer  S.F. Dias    The ambiguity of micro-utopias  G. Horvath    Tirana: Colour and art on the way to utopia  V. Conte    Part IV Humanities    The ideal city for Leonardo Bruni: An analysis of Laudatio florentinae urbis  F. Magalhaes Pinto    Creating settings: Thomas More and the imagination of places  N. Crocoll    Translating the "figures of sound" of More's Utopia (book I) into Brazilian Portuguese  A.C. Romano Ribeiro    Sir Thomas More's Utopia-glimpses of a presence in 16th century Portuguese chroniclers  A. Paula Avelar    Gil Vicente and Thomas More's construction of a perfect community: "Fragua d'Amor" in the imagination of a new world  M.L.G. da Cruz    Gregorio Lopez: An alter(-)native image from a 16th century globalising world  L.F.A. Nunes    The City of the Sun: The specular reverse of the counter-reformation  C.E. Berriel    The feast of the family and the fragmentary aspect of the representation of socio-political structures in Bacon's New Atlantis  H. Moraes    Utopia in early modern Portugal and Spain: The censorship of a nest of vipers  H. Baudry    The utopia of a healthy land: Leprosy reports in Portuguese colonial America  A.C. de Carvalho Viotti    A project of an ideal agriculture for Brazil in the 18th century  M. da Silveira Pereira    Antonio Feliciano de Castilho: Towards an agricultural utopia  C. Barreira    Utopia and dystopia in Jorge Barbosa  H. da Luz    Thomas More and Fernando Pessoa: The aesthetics of utopia in The book of disquiet  C. Souza    Architectures of madness: Lovecraft's R'lyeh as modernist dystopia  J. Palinhos    Hermann Hesse's Das Glasperlenspiel: At the frontier of a modern utopia  F. Ribeiro    Tlon: Journey to a utopian civilisation  A. Romanos    Thinking against utopia: A comparison between Thomas More and Emil Cioran  P. Vanini    Island societies and architectural imagination: From Deleuze's desert island to Plato's Atlantis and More's Utopia  A. Myserli    Eros and the struggle for reason: Our mind as the vehicle of the Universal Mind's enfolding meaning  M. Saridaki    Utopia seen through the symbolic and through anthropotechnics  J.C. Vasconcelos E Sa    The utopian pact or there is no alternative  S. Wrobel    Carta del Carnaro-between utopia and politics  D. Spinelli    Sensate utopia-experiencing unreachable in the state spectacle of socialist Yugoslavia  J. Mitrovic & V. Peric    Retaining and re-creating identity among Polish migrants in the United Kingdom  R. Seredyn ska-Abou Eid    Exploring the realms of utopia: Science fiction and adventure in A red sun also rises and The giver  I. Ramos    In the Cyborg city: Utopias of connectivity, fictions of erasure  T. Botelho