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A city without any private property and different values.
A system designed to be as efficient a possible. An alternate reality where people go to sleep only when they are tired, hosehold skills aren’t a necessity, they share and enjoy almost everything together.

Project Utopity explores differences between another way of living, changes in the city planning, changes in daily routines of people, the standarts of sleeping, personal space, values etc.
It shows our way of living from another perspective and raises discussion about certain kinds of topics.

Location

Comic book

‘Utopity 2053’ dives into the reality of two people. Inta’s and Oliver’s daily life as citizens of Utopity and their first date

Scale

Map.

Utopity is a reality with sleeping drawers/sleeping pods. Personal items, personal rooms or homes dont exist for most of the people. When you take a look at any city in the map you can see that a big part of it is meant for the living space of people. What happens when you delete that part from the map? Instead of private houses with big gardens this reality has parks, where more animals can live. Instead of apartment buildings there is lakes and forests, more wildlife, better air quality. I tried to build a fictional city(in this case Utopity) and compare how it would look like both - before and after the switch of realities.

Material

Cardboard model

First model of the sleeping drawers. This key element raises a lot of questions about this reality and the system around it. The cardboard material gives the model a ironic and a bit eary look. Metal drawer with sleeping bodies inside as it is typical for a mortuary plays with the idea of sleeping in one.


Real scale model

When considering the best size for the drawer I took into account what would be the most comfortable but the smallest size possible for the sleeping space.

The outside edge of the drawer is 200 x 85 x 70cm.
Depth of 200cm - the average matress size.
Width of 85 cm - the smallest comfortable size for one person.
Height of 70 cm - takes into account also the matress height, the most comfortable size for the person to be sleeping and also be able to look at the screen on the roof of the drawer.
The drawer model can be compared to the size of a drawer from a more affordable side.

Impact

Objects from Utopity
To find out details about the life in Utopity I have to look at every day activities. I compared the objects from nowadays and tried to integrate them into Utopity. Is it the same? Does it have the same function? Does it have the same use? Many of the objects, even though they look the same, have a different use. The deffinition and function of these objects change.