Domènec imagines the future potential of lost utopias. Not interested in archives, but in the power of reactivating their collective spirit in the present, he researches the ghosts of modern history's urban proletariat – their communal building projects, monuments and social models. In this piece, he speaks of restaging the vast energy that realised Alvar Aalto's House of Culture in Helsinki and reigniting the fleeting idealism that shaped Etienne Cabet's vision for his Icarian utopia with a spark of fireworks, illuminating the words 'Voyage en Icarie', for a brief moment before darkness returns. In these infrastructural remnants, he finds alternatives to neoliberalism's dystopic, individualistic present.
