Corra
Designing a speculative utopian city from ground up to solve the modern crisis of belonging.
Project Details
Duration : 6 weeks
Location : Utopia, Year 2085
Skills : Ethnographic Research, Speculative Analysis, Foresight Mapping
Tools : Procreate, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe AfterEffects
Overview
This project explores the making of Corra, a speculative utopian city built on shared values, collective systems, and intentional living. It examines how social principles translate into spatial, infrastructural, and experiential frameworks that shape everyday life. Through this city, the project reflects on how communities can function with clarity, balance, and cohesion in an evolving urban world.
Isolation Epidemic
This project began with a simple question: What makes people feel that they belong to that space? It fueled a curiosity about shared spaces and how people inhabit them, leading to exploring belonging as a spatial condition not just a sentiment.
1.Defining Belonging
Belonging is about the invisible
gestures that tie things in place. It is the
construction of relationships rooted in
several networks of exchange which are
constantly forming and evolving. It is the
rhythm of everyday use, the comfort of
familiarity.
2. Primary Research
Observations were collected across book stores, religious spaces, museums and cultural institutions through quick ethnographic sketching, note-taking, and situational mapping that interpret all these spaces as ‘shared spaces’ purely.
3. Secondary Research
Secondary research was conducted to understand the larger frameworks that shape belonging in urban environments. While primary research revealed how people emotionally connect with spaces, secondary research situates these patterns within theoretical and spatial contexts.
4. Urban and Speculative Study
To understand how belonging manifests at the scale of the city, three contrasting urban cities were examined: Brasilia, Bombay, and Guangzhou. Each city represents a different planning ideology, cultural rhythm, and spatial logic.
5. Future Manifested
The Cone of Future Possibilities is a tool that helps to define how cities can unfold from the present. It maps the difference between what is likely, what is possible, and what we choose to imagine. This section positions the utopian city within a believable
future landscape based on the trends and signals gathered.
Defining CORRA
