Week 01 // Dystopian Future Visions

Quotes from 1984 by George Orwell

Future Vision and Architecture Fiction.  An intriguing juxtaposition of concepts and ideas.  The meeting of the architectural with the literary perhaps? Immediately George Orwell's iconic literary work Nineteen Eighty-Four comes to mind.  A dystopian view of a dark future by all means.

A Dystopian society is the idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian.

Dystopian societies feature different kinds of repressive social control systems, and various forms of active and passive coercion. Ideas and works about dystopian societies often explore the concept of humans abusing technology and humans individually and collectively coping, or not being able to properly cope with technology that has progressed far more rapidly than humanity's spiritual evolution. Dystopian societies are often imagined as police state with unlimited power over the citizens.