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[Nettime-bold] Utopian World Championship Report 261101 |
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/ _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold