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PLATO AND HIS UTOPIAN
COLLEAGUES, THE PRECURSORS
"Beautiful and perfect places,
well-governed cities are the goal
to be reached for our societies in
imbalance"
"For that I had to succeed in channeling all this
creative, intellectual, operational and financial
power around a common objective, sought by all
regardless
of
social,
economic
and
cultural
environments and genres or generations. I needed
a course conceivable by all. So I looked for a
common denominator.
It’s in literature and history that I found it. All
civilizations
have
in
history
always
sought
perfection in the making of perfect, luminous, well
governed, model cities of refuge… Literature of the
utopian genre describes it very well. These cities
have a strong power of influence. They leave an
impression because they touch the imagination.
They are also social and political projects. Plato
alluded to it in his cult story: "The city".
The concept of Papillon Source was born: places for
individual and collective experimentation, sharing
of
knowledge,
societal
degraded
incubators
projects,
driving
environments,
for
forces
transformative
regenerating
self-sufficient
places,
showcases of what it could be in the world,
showcases of a better future, schools of a new kind
... on the five continents, all interconnected,
imagined, designed and built by the international
"Each individual would have an important role to
play, each could excel in his/her chosen field, each
would learn from the others throughout the
process of design and realization."
community, from every country around the world,
in all languages."
"Such a mechanism will prove to
be
unstoppable
once
triggered
because it will give the whole
world a perspective to act and
change the situation."