[Nettime-bold] Utopian World Championship Report 261101

["SOC.Stockholm" <info@soc.nu>]

The Utopian World Championship 2001 
Report 23/11-01


The board of SOC.Stockholm is proud to present the finalists and the jury in
the first Utopian World Championship 2001. The Utopian World Championship 2001
is an open global competition in utopian thinking that started in Sweden in
march 2001. The website http://www.soc.nu/utopian/ has been the place where to
enter the championship, submit proposals and vote for the finalists. Visit
http://www.soc.nu/utopian/ to get updated on the latest events and to read the
competing proposals.

The proposals submitted by the finalists will be judged by a jury composed of
six persons and one representative from SOC.Stockholm. The goal for this jury
is to elect one winner from the ten finalists before the 20:th of december.
The
winner will be awarded 1000 USD and the winning proposal will be presented to
governments, heads of state and other powerful institutions all over the
world.
The winner will be announced at a special event in Stockholm february 2002. 


The ten finalists are:

Armando Ernesto Alferez: Student, Townsville, Australia.
Barry Kort: Cognitive Scientist, Bedford U.S.A.
Coulter: Retired engineer and marketing businessman, Howard, Australia 
Janet Sealy: Self employed, Sydney, Australia.
John O. Sutter: Political scientist/civic activist, San Rafael, U.S.A.
Mark Roeder: Senior executive in the global financial services industry,
Sydney, Australia.
Noel Edward Mundy: Retired, Launceston, Australia.
T.R.O.Y: Multi-Task Cultural Disassembly Networks, Lund, Sweden. 
Theo Engelaer: Coorpaoo, Australia.
William Gillespie: Writer and artist, Urbana, U.S.A.
                   

The members of the jury are:

Helle Klein: Political chief editor of the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet
Rebecka Lettevall: PhD History of Ideas, Teacher at Södertörns college
Edward Soja: Professor, Urban Planning Department at UCLA, U.S.A.
Gertrud Sandqvist: Head of department and head of studies at the Malmö Art
Academy.
Sverker Sörlin: Professor, Environmental Sciences and Ideas at Umeå
University.
Bo Södersten: Professor, Economics at Jönköping International Business School.


The aim with the Utopian World Championship is to examine concepts for
contemporary utopian ideas and to promote discussions on the future of
mankind.
New features at www.soc.nu/utopian are the mailing list utopia_forum, which is
open for everyone with an interest for the subject, and the Intensified
section
of the Utopian W.C.01 that will inquire further into utopian matters.

The biannual championship is arranged by SOC.Stockholm, a group of artists and
project leaders. For more info on SOC and Utopian W.C. 2001 please contact:
Karin Willén +46 (0)70 740 72 42 (mobile), Annika Drougge +46 (0)8 718 28
75 or
e-mail info@soc.nu. 

SOC.Stockholm, Bondegatan 64, 116 34 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel: +46 (0)8 640 98
07. Mail: info@soc.nu, Web: http://www.soc.nu/



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