Mythical stories of future doom have been supplanted by scientifically grounded ones, with the complexity of our world-system pushing us closer towards inescapable global collapse.

Rail once symbolised progress and modernity; today, it represents social equity and universal access. What would it take to reclaim its prestige?

Suspended between reality and fiction, the emancipatory and the fatal, two conflicting meanings have clung to the word utopia for centuries.