Margaret Atwood made her name through dystopias. Now she wants to build a brighter future
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A Positive Vision of the Future
Author Margaret Atwood has imagined a future society that imprisons law-abiding citizens ("The Heart Goes Last"), a post-apocalyptic world filled with genetically modified creatures ("Oryx and Crake") and, most famously, a theocracy that forces fertile women to bear children for the privileged ("The Handmaid's Tale").
Now, however, she wants to shape a more positive vision of the future.
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A New Online Course
Next year, the Canadian novelist and poet will lead a new online course titled "Practical Utopias: An Exploration of the Possible." Addressing issues from social inequality to healthcare, the eight-week program will put participants in virtual classrooms with experts from various fields to develop solutions to society's biggest problems.
"I don't come with pre-formed answers," Atwood told CNN's Christiane Amanpour. "The whole idea is that... people get together, consider the challenges facing us today and thrash them out."
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Virtual Seminars
Hosted by online learning platform Disco, the course will see attendees join virtual seminars with the author. They will then take part in live workshops and develop "co-designed solutions" to present to Atwood, who was once dubbed the "prophet of dystopia" by the New Yorker magazine. "We're going to be considering things like: What sort of clothing, what sort of food or what kind of houses (will we need)?" she said.
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A Biggest Challenge
"Our biggest challenge right now is the climate crisis... And we're going to have to be looking at costs and benefits, because there is no free lunch."
"If you, for instance, decide that we're all going to have vertical gardens," she added, referring to the use of buildings and walls to grow plant life, "then what are you going to do about wind storms?"
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