Política de la imaginación: Imaginación utópica y alternatividad ecosocial en Bogotá

Abstract

This project consists of a theoretical-practical investigation on radical imagination in the ecosocial alternative. We will work with social actors present in Bogotá to build alternative life proposals to the current declining eco-social model. The social actors that participate are urban youth groups present in the city of Bogotá, grouped together in the Red Itoco Association. These social-popular organizations have a common interest in building alternatives to the capitalist model. Their opposition to this model arises from a double motivation: 1) the assumption that said system is intrinsically destructive of both nature and society on a global scale and 2) that overcoming such a system is not only ethically necessary but also factually possible. The "radical imagination" should consist of reflective processes through projected social actors, images of future ideals that demonstrated an overcoming and a rejection of the liberal-capitalist hegemonic ideology; in other words, radical imagination is the creation of utopias. We start from the hypothesis that this phenomenon is inherent to the thinking of any social actor who sets out to search for and build alternatives to the planetary crisis and ongoing civilizational suicide. The methodology consists of a field study with the use of dialogical devices. Through workshops and focus groups, the researchers will promote the meeting between the participants and the technical postulates on radical imagination and will establish with these, images of the desirable future to overcome the civilizational crisis: alternative ways of organizing social, political and economic relations. , etc. This in turn will identify the attributes of the radical imagination in actors and authors and will investigate the role of the radical imagination in the construction of ecosocial alternatives. With these findings we will be able to make a contribution to the conceptualization of radical imagination, utopia and ecosocial alternativeness in critical theory.