# Event Details - **Event Name**: Prefigurative Planning: Enacting utopias in the here and now - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 22 Jan, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 22 Jan, 2026 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for the next instalment of the BSP Public Lecture SeriesAbout this EventThe spiralling crises of climate breakdown, growing inequalities, democratic deficits and declining public services have created a loss of hope for the future and a creeping pessimism about the ability of planning to be a force for good and to imagine places that do not yet exist. In this talk, I draw on interrelated concepts of prefiguration, the not-yet, hope, and concrete utopia to propose a prefigurative mode of planning defined as a collective process of negating the given, envisioning utopias, and enacting the not-yet future in the here and now. I discuss how a new way of utopian thinking can help us to see the normalised conditions not as how things are, but as how they are made to be and how they might be unmade or remade. In highlighting the differences between prefiguration and traditional utopianism, I suggest that prefigurative planning is not about how to ‘build that city on the hill’, but how not to give up the pursuit of ‘better’ cities by combining criticality with planning imagination.Speaker InformationProfessor Simin Davoudi is Chair of Town Planning and Co-Director of the Centre for Researching Cities at Newcastle University. She is Honorary Member and former President of the Association of European Schools of Planning; Fellow of RTPI; Trustee of TCPA; and Trustee of the Academy of Social Sciences. She has held visiting professorships at universities in the USA (Virginia Tech), Netherlands (Amsterdam & Nijmegen), Sweden (BTH), Australia (RMIT), Finland (Tampere) and Austria (BOKU). Simin has served as expert advisor for the UK government (ODPM Planning Research Network, DCLG Housing Markets, DEFRA Social Science Expert Group); research councils in the UK (ESRC Strategic Advisory Network) and Europe; several planning schools in the UK and internationally; and large international research programmes. She has undertaken over 35 research projects funded by international, European and UK funding bodies and has over 200 academic publications including the 16th. edition of Town and Country Planning in the UK (2024, Routledge). - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london/prefigurative-planning-enacting-utopias-in-the-here-and-now/100001977267444152 - **Event Categories**: - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fprefigurative-planning-enacting-utopias-in-the-here-and-now-tickets-1977267444152 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: London - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Room G13 - **lat**: 51.5218924 - **long**: -0.1343463 - **full address**: Room G13, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, United Kingdom ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: The Bartlett (https://allevents.in/org/the-bartlett/22591566) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/2efd69e057f33c9f832d3bca1204da28bedd2ca3e67bb0eb70c31f8ab55fe729-rimg-w787-h787-dc142c30-gmir.jpg?v=1767401521 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://dyn-image.allevents.in/generate-image?v=4&title=Prefigurative+Planning%3A+Enacting+utopias+in+the+here+and+now&date=22+Jan ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Thu, 22 Jan, 2026 at 06:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Room G13, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, United Kingdom - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 GBP - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** The Bartlett - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Prefigurative Planning: Enacting utopias in the here and now ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Prefigurative Planning: Enacting utopias in the here and now", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/2efd69e057f33c9f832d3bca1204da28bedd2ca3e67bb0eb70c31f8ab55fe729-rimg-w787-h787-dc142c30-gmir.jpg?v=1767401521", "startDate": "2026-01-22", "endDate": "2026-01-22", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/prefigurative-planning-enacting-utopias-in-the-here-and-now/100001977267444152", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Room G13", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "1-19 Torrington Place", "postalCode": "WC1E 7HB", "addressLocality": "London", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "51.5218924", "longitude": "-0.1343463" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us for the next instalment of the BSP Public Lecture Series", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-06", "availabilityEnds": "2026-01-22", "validFrom": "2026-04-06", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/prefigurative-planning-enacting-utopias-in-the-here-and-now/100001977267444152" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-06", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-06", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/prefigurative-planning-enacting-utopias-in-the-here-and-now/100001977267444152", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "The Bartlett", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/the-bartlett/22591566", "description": "We are The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment. 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