Radical Utopia: An Archaeology of a Creative City

Melbourne in the 1980s was the site for new ideas to emerge, bend and transform the city, making its mark in post-modern design and media. Radical Utopia: an archaeology of a creative city explores the ways design and activism shaped the innovative cultural city we know today. 

Radical Utopia focuses on the studios, places, and spectacles of Melbourne where design was fiercely debated and produced. Surveying nightclubs, fashion parades, architecture media, gaming labs, graphic design collectives and everything in-between, Radical Utopia provides a map of the cultural infrastructure of the city and inner suburbs.  

Curators: Harriet Edquist and Helen Stuckey

Image: Marietta in Clarence Chai jumpsuit. Photo courtesy of Rennie Ellis

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