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Since the first decade of this century, Taiwan has regularly been the scene of large-scale social movements: protests against the construction of a petrochemical industrial complex in a wetland area, against the establishment of a luxury resort complex on the East Coast, against the construction of a fourth nuclear power plant, or the movement known as the “Sunflower protest” more recently, against the economic and political directions taken by the Taiwanese government (Republic of China). Participants in these movements often belong to the same groups and organizations, or at least share a large number of common demands and practices. In this paper, we attempt to show how, beyond these movements apparently belonging to different domains of activity, they converge in their critique of the developmental agenda that exerts itself both in Taiwan and across the world. This study aims less to offer a sociological study of these movements and their participants, but to emphasize the common ground of the values they stand for, as well as the new spaces for existence that they contribute to conceive: heterotopias.