Frontida: Towards a radical imagination of care is an on-going collaborative project that seeks to prompt discussion about the pressing need for a new social imagination of social reproduction – its organising, structures and spaces – given our contemporary times of widespread and multi-faceted crisis. It is argued that a new radical imagination of this realm, which as it stands plays a fundamental role in the continuation of capitalist exploitation, holds the potentiality of eventually overturning capitalism itself. The project takes the form of an urban utopia, which develops progressively through a series of workshops that aim to promote collective encounters, participation and collaboration.

       “Φροντίδα” is the Greek word for “care”, and as such has been chosen to be representative of the suggested utopia. The project draws inspiration from three utopian texts, namely Utopia by More (2009 [1516]), Edilia, created by Harvey (2000) in Spaces of Hope, and What would a non-sexist city be like? Speculations on housing by Hayden (1980), as well as from the idea of “real utopias” coined by Olin Wright (2010) for The Real Utopias Project, which consisted of a series of workshop conferences that were held from 1991 to 2009 and whose outcomes were published in a number of books including Envisioning Real Utopias.  As explained by Olin Wright (2010), the project sought to prompt committed discussions about ‘radical alternatives to existing institutions’. Frontida follows this same spirit. More than a destination, Frontida proposes to imagine a process or a series of processes towards a society grounded in and organised around life-sustenance. This website gathers the ideas and thoughts generated through the workshops.