Anarchism and Planning

Anarchism and Planning, curated by Hans Ibelings and Auden Tura, traces the history of anarchist planning, a movement toward a society without hierarchy, based on radical equality, voluntary associations and mutual aid. Anarchist planning begins with Peter Kropotkin’s 1888 text “The Industrial Village of the Future”, which inspired a range of thinkers, writers, architects, and urban planners across many contexts over several decades. The movement has subsided since the 1970s, when the world took a neoliberal turn, but the driving force behind anarchist change – the hope of a world of freedom and equality – is more important than ever in our times of climate crisis, ecological collapse, authoritarianism, and rapidly growing social and economic inequality.

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