The Wicked Utopia
Artistic Creation for Indigenous-Inspired Utopian Thinking
Y. Mao (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
WAJ Vanstiphout – Mentor
L.M. Calabrese – Graduation committee member
Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin – Coach
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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).