An Urban Utopia

In an exercise an attempt was made to represent utopia and dystopia in context of the city. During the course of this summer school, mediums of expression were learnt and understood. The various scenarios wherein text precedes imagery and vice versa were explored. Also, after discussions on city forms, utopia and dystopia probable futures were predicted, and as a result of that, illustrations and story boards were made.

Illustration 5. (City of tomorrow is technologically sound striving to attain utopia, whereas there is still underprivileged living on scraps of the city) summer school 2020- Reminiscence of metropolis- utopia vs dystopia

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Illustration 22. Accessibility map for Mohone

Illustration 18. Accessibility map to Mohone

Illustration 13. Radial map to understand the surroundings of NRC plant

Illustration 12. Location map for Mohone

Mukesh mills, century mills, shakti mills

Illustration 10. Experimenting with vertical orientation of entities

Illustration 9. future of the small entities- a tea shop

Illustration 8. Range of geodesic domes by Buckminster Fuller

Conclusion

4.2.1. Case study 2- Ghosted town of Songdo, South Korea

4.2. The death of utopia

4.1. Case study 1- Paolo Soleri’s- Arcosanti

3.5. Potteries Thinkbelt by Cedric price

3.4. Archigram

3.3. 3 C CITY

3. Utopia as a blueprint of our modern cities

Reminiscence of metropolis- utopia vs dystopia

2. Modernism- Building utopia through visualization

3.1. Athelstan Spilhaus ‘Our New Age’ comics

2.2. Architecture and narrative

3.2. Plan Voisin by Le Corbusier

2.1. Utopia and dystopia through the lens of cinema

1. Aim & objectives