Radio Utopia Episode 03: Escape as Reconstruction This podcast uses Lewis Mumford’s concepts of the Utopia of Escape and the Utopia of Reconstruction as the framework… Continue reading “Radio Utopia Episode 03: Escape as Reconstruction”…
Port Breton Settlement The woodblock illustration in the Saturday, April 16th, 1881 issue of the The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser… Continue reading “Port Breton Settlement”…
Rem Koolhaas’ Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture For my final project, I am interested in examining how borders function–on both a symbolic and a literal level–as zones… Continue reading “Rem Koolhaas’ Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture”…
Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow: Disneyworld’s Epcot Center as a Utopian Failure and a Commercial Success Just right of the center of Disneyworld’s expansive grounds in Orlando, FL sits an immense reflective sphere, textured like a… Continue reading “Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow: Disneyworld’s Epcot Center as a Utopian Failure and a Commercial Success”…
Jonestown as Utopia Jonestown, alternatively known as the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, was an attempted utopian commune in Guyana. Jim Jones began the… Continue reading “Jonestown as Utopia”…
The Mundaneum & the Global City The construction for the Mundaneum was initiated in 1895 by Paul Otlet and Henri la Fontaine in Belgium. The word… Continue reading “The Mundaneum & the Global City”…