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SUMMARY:A utopian vision of futuristic cities
DTSTART:20200909T070000
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CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:La Maison d’Ailleurs\, musée de la science-fiction\, de l
 ’utopie et des voyages extraordinaires\nThe College of Humanities (CDH) 
 culture program will present in the Rolex Learning Center an exhibition de
 dicated to the architecture of futuristic and utopian cities. The reproduc
 tions on display come from the collection of the Maison d'Ailleurs in Yver
 don-les-Bains\, and have been carefully selected by its director\, Marc At
 allah\, who is also a CDH professor.\n\n> The EPFL Library offers a select
 ion of documents related to "A utopian vision of futuristic cities"\n\nAdv
 ertisements and caricatures from historical newspapers such as Puck\, The
  Judge\, and Life (1880-1946)\, will be presented at this unique exhibi
 tion in EPFL’s iconic building. Covers of popular pulp magazines (1929
 -1967) will also be on display.\n\nThe images convey forms and atmospheres
  that\, in their time\, helped to shape our imagination of the future: cit
 ies are gigantic\, hyper-technological\, vertical\, and excessively geomet
 ric. In many representations\, the human has become minuscule\, insignific
 ant\, and outmoded. Mental projection towards the temporal elsewhere is no
 t only intended to fascinate us\, but also to make us think beyond traditi
 onal media and social discourse. Science fiction is the worthy heir to all
  these utopian tales which\, in their time\, created an ideal world to bet
 ter critique the failings of everyday life.\n\nWandering between these pan
 els means discovering with curiosity the creativity of the illustrators\; 
 sometimes smiling at the candor of their proposals\, and sometimes redisco
 vering certain elements of our own reality. It also means realizing that b
 ehind the watermarks are more subversive messages\, which show that the se
 duction of hypertechnology comes at a high price: human beings are no more
  than a detail of the decor\, which has become mastered\, confined\, and e
 nslaved.\n\nCredits:\nConcept: Maison d'Ailleurs\nPrinting: Artgraphic Cav
 in SA\nLamination: TED Support
LOCATION:Hall du Rolex Learning Center https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==RLC%20G
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
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