Click the links to read the texts and ideas that have served as the launch point for the Social Sculpture Foundation’s work.

Acid Communism by Mark Fisher (2017) The unfinished introduction of a text Mark Fisher was working on at the time of his death, that posits that we must return to a vision held during the counter-cultural moment of the 60s and 70s to create an out-road from capitalism. Acid Communism is the name that Fisher gave to what Marcuse called “the spectre of a world which could be free”.

Formulary for a New Urbanism by Gilles Ivain (1953) Translated by Ian Thompson, January 2016. Proofread and Edited by Anna O’Meara & Mehdi el H. One of the key documents on psychogeography, originally published in International Situationniste #1. “Everyone will live in their own “cathedral”, as it were. It will contain rooms which produce dreams more effectively than drugs, and houses where one cannot help but love.”

Joseph Beuys The Expanded Concept of Art by Heiner Stachelhaus An essay on Joseph Beuys’ concept of social sculpture; “He saw his expanded concept of art as an opportunity to set the social healing process in motion: ‘Living conditions must change—regeneration comes only from the expanded concept of art.'”