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Makan #1 | Informal Utopias
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Makan #3 | Synthetic Agencies
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MAKAN #1 / Informal Utopias (2020)
Conceived within [and in response to] the global pandemic, Informal Utopias inaugurates the Makan journal by reimagining the entanglement of practice and possibility. Rather than pursuing idealized or prescriptive visions, this issue explores the spaces that have eluded the dominant logics and trajectories of utopian thought. Drawing primarily from the work of residents and contributors involved in Think Tanger’s pre-pandemic program cycle, the issue constructs a decentered grammar of utopianism grounded in the everyday urban fabric of Tangier. Through essays, observations, and spatial narratives, it examines how informal practices might reshape understandings of collective well-being, urban resilience, and social imagination. Edited by William Kutz, Informal Utopias laid the foundation for Makan as a platform for critical inquiry into contemporary architectural and urban conditions, rooted in plurality and informed by scholarship from Africa and the Arabic-speaking world.
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