The Wicked Utopia: Artistic Creation for Indigenous-Inspired Utopian Thinking

• Main Author: Mao, Yue (author)
• Other Authors: Vanstiphout, Wouter (mentor), Calabrese, Luisa (graduation committee), Kuzniecow Bacchin, Taneha (graduation committee), Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Utopian thinking; indigenous studies; artistic creation; Kiruna; sami
• Online Access: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8f585562-3013-4b60-8fd9-b0a4a0ae0013

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).