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[Nettime-bold] Grand finale in The Utopian World Championship 2001 |
Welcome to the grand finale in the 1:st Utopian World Championship 2001! On the 19:th of january we will announce the winner of the championship at the Utopian World Championship Gala at Galleri Enkehuset at Norrtullsgatan 45 in Stockholm, Sweden. The gala starts at 8 pm and the prize ceremony takes place from 9 to 9.30 pm. The winner will be awarded 1000 USD and the his/hers proposal will be distributed to heads of state and other powerful institutions all over the world. Special guest is the Swedish philosopher and critc Sven-Olov Wallenstein, who will speak about the notion of utopia. The Utopian Party continues troughout the night with Fredrik Söderberg in the DJ booth. 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 championships, where the competitors submitted their proposals and the public could elect ten finalists. In december a jury composed of four persons and one representative from SOC.Stockholm begun the work to chose one winning proposal from the ten finalists. The members of the jury are Rebecka Lettevall (PhD History of Ideas, Teacher at Södertörns college), Edward Soja (Professor, Urban Planning Department at UCLA, U.S.A.), Sverker Sörlin (Professor, Environmental Sciences and Ideas at Umeå University), Bo Södersten (Professor, Economics at Jönköping International Business School.). The ten finalists are: Armando Ernesto Alferez (Australia), Barry Kort (U.S.A), Neil Coulter (Australia), Janet Sealy (Australia), John O. Sutter (U.S.A), Mark Roeder (Australia), Noel Edward Mundy (Australia), T.R.O.Y (Sweden), Theo Engelaer, (Australia) och William Gillespie (U.S.A). The winner will be presented at http://www.soc.nu/utopian/ after the announcement on the 19:th. On the website you can currently read about the finalists and the jury, take part of the competing proposals and discuss utopian related events. If you want to contact us please e-mail info@soc.nu or call Annika Drougge +46 (0)8 718 28 75, Jon Brunberg +49 (0)30 29 77 11 79 or Tobias Sjödin på +46 (0)8 641 13 17. Yours sincerely Jon Brunberg, SOC.Stockholm The Utopian WC 2001 Gala is arranged by SOC.Stockholm and Galleri Enkehuset. SOC.Stockholm, Bondegatan 64, 116 34 Stockholm, Sweden www.soc.nu/utopian, info@soc.nu, + 46 (0) 8 640 98 07 SOC is suppported by The Foundation for Future Culture / Swedish Art Grants Committée. Galleri Enkehuset, Norrtullsgatan 45, 113 45 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: + 46 (0) 8 34 36 56 fax + 46 (0) 8 34 33 41 info@enkehuset.nu, www.enkehuset.nuGalleri Enkehuset is suppported by Statens Kulturråd / Sthlms stad / Sthlms Läns Landsting / Swedish Institute _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold