Pre-fair Program // The Unpredictable Past of the Future: The Political Potential of Utopia
Participants: Ivana Momčilović (PhD in One Night), Ivana Jecmenica
Book launch with the editor, intervention by Ivana Jecmenica.
“Unpredictable Past of the Future: The Political Potential of Utopia”, edited by Ivana Momčilović and published by Edicija Jugoslavija, examines the relationship between aesthetics, politics, and education.
Based on a novel for children about the new education system in Yugoslavia (from 1924–1925), written by an anonymous girl: “Little Zora” (Little Dawn). Zora, who lives with her parents in Belgrade, in the oppressive Kingdom of Yugoslavia dreams of a school of the future. In her dream she drives an electric car, food is free for all at school, and all education is shared through aesthetics. Written in 1924/1925, it was originally published in a communist children’s magazine called “Budućnost” (Future), for the “children of organized workers” in Belgrade.
The book was recently discovered by Biljana Andonovska, researcher at the Institute of Literature and Art, Belgrade. Andonovska text „Introduction to a Walk Through the Future“ is based on the text “Future (without) Future: The First Communist Literary Magazine for Children in the Kingdom of SHS“ and Zora’s science-fiction social-utopian novel about new education “Walk through the Future,“ published a hundred years ago and so far undiscovered.
"Unpredictable Past of the Future" delves into rich archive material from the magazine “Budućnost,” filled with illustrations around alternative education and the lives of young people in 1924–1925. The result is a book of almost 500 pages, a unique example of radical social utopian science fiction for children from the early 20th century.
“Unpredictable Past of the Future: The Political Potential of Utopia”, edited by Ivana Momčilović and published by Edicija Jugoslavija, examines the relationship between aesthetics, politics, and education.
Based on a novel for children about the new education system in Yugoslavia (from 1924–1925), written by an anonymous girl: “Little Zora” (Little Dawn). Zora, who lives with her parents in Belgrade, in the oppressive Kingdom of Yugoslavia dreams of a school of the future. In her dream she drives an electric car, food is free for all at school, and all education is shared through aesthetics. Written in 1924/1925, it was originally published in a communist children’s magazine called “Budućnost” (Future), for the “children of organized workers” in Belgrade.
The book was recently discovered by Biljana Andonovska, researcher at the Institute of Literature and Art, Belgrade. Andonovska text „Introduction to a Walk Through the Future“ is based on the text “Future (without) Future: The First Communist Literary Magazine for Children in the Kingdom of SHS“ and Zora’s science-fiction social-utopian novel about new education “Walk through the Future,“ published a hundred years ago and so far undiscovered.
"Unpredictable Past of the Future" delves into rich archive material from the magazine “Budućnost,” filled with illustrations around alternative education and the lives of young people in 1924–1925. The result is a book of almost 500 pages, a unique example of radical social utopian science fiction for children from the early 20th century.
11.06.25, 19:00
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