The Wicked Utopia

Artistic Creation for Indigenous-Inspired Utopian Thinking

Master thesis (2018)

Authors

Y. Mao Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

L.M. Calabrese (graduation committee member)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2018 Yue Mao
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Published Date

02-07-2018

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

This project investigated into the only indigenous people in Europe, the Sami people in northern Scandinavia, explored the possibility to transfer their knowledge into a new Utopian thinking. Instead of a concrete urban planning or design, this project is designated to be a meta process of thinking pattern, for which inter-subjective artistic creation plays an important role. It involves a in-depth historical research into indigenous thinking and Utopian thinking, concluded by the mentality and image constructing skills and implemented into two Utopian scenarios in Kiruna (Sweden) and Delft (the Netherlands).