The author describes and explains the phenomenon of visionariness its significance for architecture creative work professionals, as well social dynamics. emphasizes historical inevitability differentiation those employed in design into architects engineers, professionals with fundamentally different missions an opposite approach to design. It is emphasized that exists both engineering projects;...

“Transformar o capitalismo com utopias reais” foi lema que escolhemos para congresso internacional dedicado a homenagear sociologo Erik Olin Wright, quando se cumpria um ano apos sua morte – ocorrida em janeiro de 2019. A formulacao encontrou tema fundo procurou, por lado, ser fiel as tematicas este trabalhou ao longo da carreira academica e, outro, suscitar espaco reflexao centrado nos princip...

Utopias seem to be out of fashion these days. The old ideologies, such as communism, have shown their inadequacies, and the “laissez-faire” liberalism that has replaced them is coming under more and more criticism. Instead, the intellectual climate has turned to either gloom and doom, or an “anything goes” postmodernist relativism. This general pessimism and apathy is fed by an increasing amoun...