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Rutopia published in the Washington Post
sanne derks
May 2, 2022
This week a beautiful publication of my long-term project Rutopia – supported by the National Geographic Society and Matchingsfonds de Coöperatie - came out in the Washington Post. In this project I documented how people want to bring abandoned villages back to life. In search for a sustainable world and a small ecological footprint, people move back to ruin-villages to start a new life.

This self-initiated project is so dear to me. It gave me so many reflections on the essence of life, it gave me guidance and purpose during the pandemic and I have enjoyed every second of the many, many weeks I spend in Spain in the past two years. I have met so many inspirational souls, individuals and communities and it feels sad the project came to an end.Perspective | In rural Spain, people want to bring abandoned villages back to life
Villages in Spain’s sparsely inhabited interior are attempting a repopulation. People are striving to construct self-governed ecological communities as a "rural utopia."
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