On the 16th of June we had the pleasure of inviting Mr. Yoshihiro Suda, a contemporary artist famous for his "weeds" carved of wood.

The workshop started with Yasuo Kobayashi’s opening remarks on the problematic of “the epoch”.

The bridge has always been considered as a metaphor of linking, but the bridge is also a metaphor for the very workings of metaphor, in the way that the edge can be associated with metonymical proximity.

The Society for Utopian Studies is a home for scholars across a variety of disciplines, united by their interest in the problematic of utopia. In a unique way, specialists in political science, economics, architecture, literary studies and other fields share the historical and theoretical background of this problematic. There is really something positive and genuinely utopian in the establishing of such a community of research and the city of Toronto was a perfect site for it with its wide streets, green parks, and skyscrapers.