Have been working on various ways to illustrate Modern and Post Modern theories about Utopia, here is one of my concepts.

This one has 2 sides/ "rooms" juxtaposed against each other. The Modernist conception is more exclusionary, and I was thinking about the possibility of having a door that could only be opened with keys that are distributed in locations, or given to selected people. Only those with a key can access this version of Utopia, which reinforces some of the early ideas about Utopia by Plato etc as being a place where only those of superior intellect as defined by "Philosopher Kings" could reside.

The Post-Modern side/room is more open, with a window frame but no glass etc stopping one from accessing the inner space through it. The floor of this one would be textural in some sense-possibly foam-like. Having entered the space, one would be expected to don a garment or wear some kind of designed symbol of the space (have yet to come up with what exactly this would be), and leave some kind of mark or sign that they had been there. The work in this sense is in development through the time of its duration in a space. This is intended to represent the communal aspect of utopian thought, but recognising the different identities of the visitors by the mark they leave. In this aspect I hope to illustrate some of the ideals of Signals gallery in London in the 60s, that of "providing a forum for all those who believe passionately in the co-relation of the arts and Art's imaginative integration with technology, science, architecture and our entire environment"(Isobel Whitelegg, Oiticica in London, 2007).

In this sense too, it will hopefully embody "didatic exposition and imaginative freedom" (Wells).