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\nFinally – the summit which YKON has been planning since 7 years, will take place! See below the official press release – and be prepared to change all your plans just to be in Brioni for the open day 28 September..<\/p>\n

The Summit of Practical Utopias
\n26\u201429 September 2013
\nBrioni Island, Croatia
\nwww.practicalutopias.org<\/p>\n

image: View of the Tito Museum, Brioni, Croatia, 2011, Image courtesy YKON<\/p>\n


\nThe Summit of Practical Utopias gathers 35 activists, artists, game designers, researchers and visionaries on the island of Brioni, President Tito\u2019s former summer residency in the Croatian Adriatic Sea. Organised as a collaboration between YKON (FIN\/DE) and Drugo More (CRO) in dialogue with Electra (UK), the three-day Summit takes the form of a reality game where game rules, rather than summit conventions, define the interactions between participants or players.<\/p>\n

The Summit of Practical Utopias was born out of the legacy of The First Summit of Micronations, held in Helsinki in 2003. Kings, presidents and representatives of \u2018self-made\u2019 countries such as The Principality of Sealand, Ladonia, NSK-State, Kingdoms of Elgaland & Vargaland, Transnational Republic and State of Sabotage met each other in an unprecedented three-day exchange. However, the question of how the imaginative and experimental politics of micronations could be turned into a radical transformative force, how micronations could behave as \u2018agents of change\u2019 required further elaboration. The delegates of the Helsinki summit therefore unanimously voted to reconvene and Brioni was suggested as a suitable location for this next gathering. Now a decade later, The Summit of Practical Utopias seeks to elaborate and extend the possibilities of this initial meeting.<\/p>\n

The participants in the 2013 Summit of Practical Utopias represent a wide cross-section of contemporary Utopian practices and include:<\/p>\n

Noora Aaltonen & Maiju Suomi (ukumbi.org), Fouad Asfour, Tina Auer & Tim Boykett (Time’s Up), \u0110or\u0111e Balmazovi\u0107 & Dragan Proti\u0107 (\u0160kart), Jon Brunberg (Utopian World Championship), Cecilia Carlsson (Non-Violent Communication), Teo Celakoski, Nik Gaffney & Maja Kuzmanovic (Fo.am), Gilles Fontolliet (Palestinian Space Agency), Eva de Groote, Lauren Higgins (MetaCurrency, The Hub), Deborah Husti\u0107 (Radiona), Juha Huuskonen (Open Knowledge Foundation, Pixelache), Raed Ibrahim, Sonal Jain & Mriganka Madhukaillya (Desire Machine Collective),\u00a0 Laurence McKeown, Dejan Kr\u0161i\u0107, Ivica Mitrovi\u0107, Ivan Novak (NSK), Pepe Nummi (Grape People), Dinko & Miranda Velja\u010di\u0107 (Platforma), Gordana Ristic, Christopher Robbins (Ghana Think Tank), Mabel Tapia, Richard Thomas, Emina Vi\u0161ni\u0107, Stephen Wright and Georg Zoche (Transnational Republic)<\/p>\n

PRACTICAL UTOPIA
\nThe term was coined specifically for the Summit. It reflects the desire to change the current system of society by developing alternative proposals that outline the first practical steps towards long-term processes of change. Practical Utopia insists on the necessity of Utopia as an intellectual concept interlinking the fantastical and the pragmatic in bringing about social, political and artistic change.<\/p>\n

THE GAME
\nReplacing conventional conference formats, the Summit will use game design to provide a playful yet serious system of exchanges. The sights and infrastructures on the Island will be turned into a playground that will support the players to collaborate in novel ways.<\/p>\n

The game is designed by the artist collective YKON and inspired by Buckminster Fullers\u2019 \u2018World Game\u2019 (1961). It was created as a proposal for an alternative system of pedagogy: a game, rather than a curriculum, as the main platform of learning. It was intended as a tool to formulate competing, comprehensive design-science approaches that would \u201csolve all the problems on Planet Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

BRIONI
\nInitially a stone quarry, and later a luxury retreat for the wealthy, the archipelago became Josip Broz Tito\u2019s summer residence after World War II. Tito was the central figure in Yugoslavia\u2019s experiments with organisational structures, experiments which profoundly transformed its society. Brioni\u00a0 played a crucial role in the forging of the Non-Aligned Movement, and was the site where self-managerial socialism met international celebrities and world leaders. This beautiful and provocative Island speaks both of the possibility of imagining alternative systems, of restructuring social life, whilst simultaneously problematising this desire.<\/p>\n

OPEN DAY
\nTHE OTHER BRIONI is a one-day festival within the Summit of Practical Utopias and a part of the annual local Mine Yours Ours Festival. On Saturday 28 September existing sites and sights will be re-interpreted by the players of the Summit, providing an alternative tour to the Island.<\/p>\n

About the Organisers:<\/p>\n

YKON\u00a0 http:\/\/ykon.org\/
\nYKON was founded as an artistic initiative and platform for exploring utopian fantasies and the political imaginary in relation to concrete sociopolitical structures and concerns. Emerging from and working in the field of contemporary art, YKON merges the languages and approaches of a number of disciplines, such as game design, scenario development, experimental education, dynamic facilitation, social architecture and alternative economies.<\/p>\n

Ulu Braun, Tellervo Kalleinen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Pekko Koskinen, Christina Kral, Tomas Tr\u00e4skman<\/p>\n

DRUGO MORE http:\/\/www.drugo-more.hr
\nWorking as a non-profit organisation in the field of culture since 1999, Drugo More identifies and explores topics of social relevance and general interest to the community we all live in. By working across disciplines locally, regionally and internationally, Drugo More connects an artistic program with discourses in science and cultural theory, propelled by a strong belief in art as a vital cognitive tool.<\/p>\n

Davor Mi\u0161kovi\u0107, Petra Corva, Ivana Kati\u0107<\/p>\n

ELECTRA http:\/\/www.electra-productions.com
\nElectra is a London based contemporary art organisation which curates, commissions and produces projects by artists working across sound, moving image, performance and the visual arts. Through close dialogue with a range of venues and collaborators, Electra presents its projects across the UK and internationally. At the heart of the organisation’s practice is a process-based relationship between artist, curator and audiences, which seeks to give the projects space to find their own rhythm, public outputs, and discourse.<\/p>\n

Fatima Hellberg, Irene Revell<\/p>\n

Supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland, AVEK, IASPIS, FRAME, Nordic Culture Point, Drugo More, Republic of Croatia Ministry of Culture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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