UQ02.

The Physical

  1. What would be the architecture of your utopia? What materials and techniques would be used in building construction? What would be the underlying philosophical or ecological reasons for the use of these materials and techniques?
  2. Would your utopia have high population density or low population density? Why?
  3. Would your utopia be urban, rural, or have elements of both? Why? If both, what would their relationship be?
  4. What kind(s) of transportation would it use?
  5. Would any kinds of transportation be encouraged or discouraged? If so, which ones? How? And why?
  6. How would your utopia deal with sewage and other waste products?
  7. What would be the relationship between public space and private space?
  8. Would your utopia have private, self-contained dwellings (as at present—detached houses and self-contained apartments)?
  9. Would it have private, but non-self-contained individual living spaces (without kitchens and laundry facilities, and perhaps without private bathrooms or living rooms)? What kind of buildings would these living spaces be in?
  10. Would your utopia have private or communal dining facilities, or a combination of the two? If a combination, what would it be?
  11. Would it have a closed or nearly closed ecosystem, as in Soleri’s arcology?
  12. How would your utopia deal with noise pollution?

Children & Education

  1. Would the number of children per parent be limited in your utopia? If so, to how many children? Why?
  2. Would children live with their parents? If not, what would be their living arrangements?
  3. What rights would children have?
  4. Would restrictions be placed on children’s activities? If so, what restrictions?
  5. How would children be educated? Who would be the educators? What rights would children have in deciding what they learned?
  6. Would your utopia feature sex education of children? If so, who would conduct it?
  7. Would the traditional higher education system be retained, modified, or discarded? If modified, how? If discarded, how would your utopia conduct higher education?

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