ADMISSION:
Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP at the links below beginning Tuesday, October 18, at 9 a.m.

USC Students, Staff, and Faculty: RSVP
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General Public: RSVP

DESCRIPTION:
Is it possible to design a perfect city? The concept of utopia—a term coined 500 years ago by Sir Thomas More to describe the ideal city—lies at the heart of the Western political imagination. But what does it mean in the context of 21st-century urbanism, especially in a megacity like Los Angeles, where a sprawling, heterogeneous built environment poses increasingly serious sustainability challenges? A conversation will explore the role of design in attempting to create utopia amid the complex realities of contemporary L.A. Panelists include landscape architect Mia Lehrer; Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne; architect, cultural activist, and USC School of Architecture professor Victor Jones; and game design expert and USC School of Cinematic Arts professor Jeff Watson.

This event is presented as part of “500 Years of Utopia,” a series of events marking the December 2016 half-millennial anniversary of Sir Thomas More’s Utopia.

Related Events:
Governing Paradise
Saturday, October 15, 2016, 1 p.m.
Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall, Doheny Memorial Library 240
For more info, click here.

Utopian Representations
Tuesday, February 7, 2017, 5 p.m.
Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall, Doheny Memorial Library 240
For more info, click here.

Organized by the USC Libraries.