Book Club: “The Landscape of Utopia” by Tim Waterman

Wednesday February 25th
Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Book discussion starts 7pm

For our February Book Club, we're reading "The Landscape of Utopia" by Tim Waterman, a collection of short interludes, think pieces, and critical essays on landscape, utopia, philosophy, culture and food.

Tim will be the main speaker at our six day Spring Residency "Reworlding" at Selgars Mill, Devon between April 29th and May 5th.

Publishers description: "Exploring power and democracy, and their shaping of public space and public life, taste, etiquette, belief and ritual, and foodways in community and civic life, the book provides a much-needed critical approach to landscape imaginaries. It discusses landscape in its broadest sense, as a descriptor of the relationship between people and place that occurs everywhere on land, from cities to countryside, suburb to wilderness.

With over fifty black and white illustrations interspersing the twenty-six chapters, this is a book to dive into and spark discussion on new modes of thinking in the wake of unfolding global crises."

Tim Waterman will be the principle speaker at our Spring Residency: Reworlding at Selgars Mill, Devon between Wednesday April 29th and Tuesday May 5th. He is Professor of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He gave a talk at Kairos in July 2024, "Planetarity: Some Tools for Thinking About the Earth", and took part in our Colin Ward Festival last September.

We have a free digital download of "The Landscape of Utopia" that we can share with you, or a 30% discount on the physical book. Email us at events@kairos.london and let us know which option you'd prefer.

Book Club meets on the last Wednesday of every month. Our following meetings will be:

• Wednesday March 25th:  "The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World...", a posthumously published collection of essays by David Graeber.
• Wednesday April 29th: Book to be confirmed

Kairos, 84 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TG

Doors open at 6.30pm. Book discussion starts at 7pm. Food provided. Pay bar or BYOB.

Free for Regular Visitor and Supporter Members (please still register in advance so we can plan food numbers); £5 Standard (includes Community Members). 

Please note that most of our events take place in our basement space and we do not have a lift so our venue is not fully accessible. Please get in touch if you have accessibility issues via events@kairos.london.

You can find our returns policy here.

You can find our Club Rules, including our no phone policy, here.