'Planning for Utopia'. Provoking the Architectural Imaginary in the Contemporary Urban Context

这篇文章反映了一个名为“乌托邦规划”的合作项目，参与者包括作家兼艺术和建筑策展人罗宾·威尔逊，艺术家兼建筑师索菲·沃伦和乔纳森·莫斯利。该项目由艺术与人文研究委员会和西英格兰大学共同支持。我们的目的是通过直接的挑衅策略来探索乌托邦想象在建筑环境专业和城市规划中的作用。2007年1月，我们开始为伦敦市中心的一个地点设计一个乌托邦式的方案，包括图像、模型和文本。这最终被设想为一个“垂直公共区域”，并提出了关于保护、所有权和使用规定的问题。我们打算提交规划同意和专家咨询。在这一系列“访谈”的基础上，我们将记录和分析来自不同专业人士和专业团体的回应，评估他们解释、赞同或拒绝我们提出的观点的方式。因此，我们试图将乌托邦想象的产物带入干预和谈判的战略进程，以便与机构建立关键的对话。

This article reflects upon a collaborative project called Planning for Utopia, involvingRobin Wilson, a writer and curator of art and architecture, and the artist and architect Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley. The project was co-supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the University of the West of England. Our aim was to explore the role of the utopian imagination in the built environment professions of architecture and urban planning through means of a direct strategy of provocation. In January 2007 we began to devise a utopian scheme for a central London site in images, models and text. This was eventually conceived as a 'Vertical Common' and raised questions in comparison to expected development schemes for the site regarding conservation, ownership and prescription of use. This we intended to submit for planning consent and expert consultation. On the basis of this series of 'interviews' we would record and analyse the response from the various professionals and professional bodies, evaluating the terms by which they interpret, endorse or reject the ideas we put forward. We thus sought to bring a product of the utopian imagination into a strategic process of intervention and negotiation, in order to establish a critical dialogue with institutions.