Lecture Notes:
Defining a place from a non place - a place implies an indication of stability, a place has been defined by someone at some point to have rules, it has it's own history and a sense of identity.
Urban - sinister, yet familiar - disconnected, but catering for all, a city of strangers, socially interactive, yet darker and violent
Non-place - a motorway, a hotel room, an airport or a supermarket. A place with a definition but holding no meaning, no identity other than to provide.
Utopia - perfection - a rational effort to create perfection - a better society - a total environment - Stepford Wives - regimented
Problem with utopia - 'someone' has to control it, 'someone' names it a utopia, THEIR utopia
Reminds me of the film Disturbia - utopian environment - is it the perfect cover up for something more sinister? Relevant for Stepford Wives, also.
Utopian architecture - designing for concentrating on following the pattern that has been set out
Historical referencing of dictatorship?
Dystopia - 'images of worlds worse than our own' - how the future may become, in fear - propaganda.
Hotel rooms - supermarkets - creature comforts, with none of the personality or identity. Hotel rooms also link back to tourism, consumerism and globalisation.
Airports will become cities of the 21st century - everything that you need under one roof but with none of the commitment - airports being the first experience on arrival
Conceptual ideas - dystopia is a warning, utopia is an ideal - both comment on society.
Fight Club quotes?
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