Truly Golden Handbook"

Veerle Achten is chair and co-ordinator of Metaforum, the KU Leuven interdisciplinary think-tank for societal debate.Erik Schokkaert is full professor of welfare economics and chair and co-ordinator of Metaforum, the KU Leuven interdisciplinary think-tank for societal debate. Geert Bouckaert is professor emeritus at the KU Leuven Public Governance Institute. He is past-president of the European Group for Public Administration, and of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences. Geert Bouckaert is professor at KU Leuven and Chair of the Committee for Contemporary Art.

• IntroductionVeerle Achten, Geert Bouckaert and Erik Schokkaert1. The Utopian Human Engineering the HumanWill Life Go Live One Day?Bart De MoorPreventive Maintenance for a Future without DiseaseRudy LauwereinsDigital Health Care for Real PatientsLiesbet Geris and Ine Van HoyweghenThe Replaceable BrainRudi D’HoogeThe Genetic FutureBlood and Stem Cell Utopia: The Search for the Holy GrailMarc BoogaertsHealthy Genes for EveryoneKoen Devriendt and Hilde Van EschUniversal Reproductive Freedom and HealthThomas D’HoogheThe Health Care of the FutureEradicating Depression without Losing HumanityStephan ClaesRecovery without CureChantal Van AudenhovePerson-Centered Health Care without FragmentationJan De Lepeleire2. Utopian SocietyThe Governance of the FutureUtopian Public Governance: Cloudy, Cloudier, CloudiestGeert Bouckaert and Joep CrompvoetsCreative Democracy and the Global CitizenPeter VermeerschFreedom of Expression: Rediscovering Speakers’ InterestsKoen LemmensResponding to Crime through RestorationLode Walgrave, Ivo Aertsen and Inge VanfraechemThe Citizen of the FutureReligion as a Utopia?Rik TorfsDiversity without a Group ApproachKatlijn MalflietBuilding upon Disability ExperienceAnn HeylighenCo-Creating the Future NowMarc Craps, Styn Grieten and Rene BouwenSchool: Everyone Can Learn EverythingAn Verburgh, Maarten Simons, Jan Masschelein, Rianne Janssen, Jan Elen and Goele CornelissenThe Market of the Future2100: A Good Life in a Global EconomyErik SchokkaertWage without WorkMarten Ovaere, Kenneth Van den Bergh and Arne van StiphoutInnovation without Property?Geertrui Van OverwalleUnlimited Energy in a Finite World: A Stepping Stone from Humanity to ‘Humaneity’Jan Ronge and Dorien De Man3. The Utopian WorldThe City of the FutureLutopia: An Ideal City in an Ideal WorldHilde HeynenThe Future of the EarthThe Moral Obligation of a DreamFrans SchuitIs There a Common Future for People and Trees?Bart MuysThe Long and Difficult Road to the Land of Cockaigne 2.0Gerard GoversA World without Man, the End of the Anthropocene?Manuel SintubinThe Planets of the FutureTowards Other Worlds in the Milky WayConny Aerts and Katrijn ClemerInterstellar Expeditions with a Medieval MindsetFrederik Ceyssens4. Utopian KnowledgeThe Materials of the FutureSuperatoms – More with Less MatterPeter Lievens3D Printing: The Making of UtopiaPeter Van PuyveldeThe Information of the FutureThinking and Conscious Machines?Philip DutreThe Geek ReformationYves MoreauThe Science of the FutureThe (App)Sense of Numbers and Narratives in Social Science ResearchKarin Hannes and Sara CoemansThe Ideal Organization of Science: Two Simple but Utopian ProposalsJohan Wagemans5. On Utopian ReflectionMore’s Mere Words: Utopia Writ LargeOrtwin de GraefEngaging History: Religion and Politics in UtopiaTerrence MerriganUtopia Rediscovered: A Redefinition of Utopianism in the Light of the Enclosures of the CommonsLieven De CauterIt Always Seems Impossible until It’s DoneStephane SymonsWhat’s Wrong with Social Utopianism?Andre Van de Putte

'A Truly Golden Handbook: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia' is an ambitiouscelebration of the five-hundredth anniversary of the first publication of Thomas More's 'Utopia'. And, since 'Utopia' was first published in the Flemish town of Leuven in 1516, the editors of this current volume invited over forty scholars presently at the university there to "revisit More's exercise in an interdisciplinary range of science-based utopias" and "reflect on the future, starting from their own fields of research, and on how future developments in their fields of research may impact our societies" (9). [...] For such a huge undertaking, the organization of the text is incredibly well done. John K. Hayden, Sixteenth Century Journal XLIX/I (2018)