After Winka Dubbeldam’s introduction, the guest co-editors of the “Chimera” issue of A-D journal, Elena Manferdini and Damjan Jovanovic argue that utopian thinking’s relevance today lies in its capacity to imagine that things could be different, and also it’s power to interrupt “the foreclosure of possibility produced by planetary management”.

At 12:26, Manferdini reviews the projects of contributors to “Chimera” who are not present at the symposium: Federico Campagna; Alina Nazmeeva; Paulette Singley; Carlo Ratti, Antoine Picon & Marco Santambrogio; Neil Leach.

At 14:47, David Ruy discusses the recent revival of A-D under new a new publisher, and editorial director, Ashley Simone.

At 22:40, Jovanovic introduces the speakers, and the individual contributor presentations begin:
• At 26:08, Graham Harman discusses his article, “Beyond the city of the sun”.
• At 28:53, Jack Olivia-Rendler discusses the personal artwork featured in the magazine.
• At 31: 55, Adil Bokhari discusses his project, “Voyagers Voyeurs Vectors: the digital observatory and its world”.
• At 37:30, Jennifer Chen discusses her project, “Climate punk”.
• At 44:18, Elena Manferdini discusses “Public engagement in the age of social media”.
• At 50:07, Robert Cha discusses, “AI Sapiens portraits”.

After the individual presentations, at 54:59, Jovanovic starts a discussion among panelists by asking, “What is the role of imagination in your work?” and “What kind of world does your work enable?”

At 1:05:32, Manferdini convenes a second round of presentations:
• At 1:07:50, Krish Dittmer and John Cooper discuss their project “Report from Practopia”, focusing on the re-use of existing resources.
• At 1:13:31, Andrew Witt, discusses “Heliotopia : sun, geometry and the technological garden”.
• At 1:21:00, Damjan Jovanovic discusses the simulation project “Planet garden”.
• At 1:26:26, Liam Young discusses imagined worlds, apocalypse, and future realities.

At 1:33:50, Manferdini begins a general discussion by asking the panelists how their work has developed.