This collection of essays, all authored and curated by Tim Waterman, foregrounds the entangled nature of utopia(nism), landscape (aka landship), design and imagination, where ‘everything is connected, everything is inseparable, everything can have different meanings and purposes in different contexts’(p. xv). Food, politics, anarchism, the commons, emancipation, idiocy, conviviality and moral economies all come together in an exercise of (and on) taste as the ability to ethically situate and orient ourselves among a complexity often surpassing academic discourses and practices.