Episode 2: Ashley Hay on Griffith Review 73: Hey, Utopia!

Ashley Hay on Griffith Review Edition 73: Hey, Utopia!, which explores other ways the world could be. Contributions explore the urgent need for Australia to work with First Nations people to reckon with its colonial origins, the power of art to remake the world, practical, meaningful responses to climate change and different ways to measure and respond to poverty. A joyful celebration of the power of imagination to transform the world we live in.

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About Griffith Review 73: Hey, Utopia!

There’s no place like utopia.

There’s no place like utopia.

What are the possibilities and pitfalls of imagining a better future? Hey, Utopia! explores the ramifications of Thomas More's term in a range of contexts: the possible and the improbable, the out of reach and almost realised.

Edited by Ashley Hay and featuring work by Sarah Sentilles, Thurston Moore & John Kinsella, Ellen van Neervan, Alex Cothren, Fiona Foley and Lea McInerney, Griffith Review 73 looks into visions past and present, those with potential and those that proved punishing.