About the Group

Dystopia Manifesto

The utopian idea is to strive for perfection; yet, utopias (which means “no place”) continuously fail due to the human inability to ever achieve perfection. On many an occasion, striving utopias fall short of perfection due to the uncontrollable nature of a community. When the utopias fail, many times the communities either turn into dystopias or completely die off. History also shows that attempts to create utopias beginning through a dystopia, such as a dictatorship, always fail. Keeping in mind the unattainable nature of a utopian society, Gocciole has decided to approach the project from the point of view of a dystopia. A dystopia will allow us to put in place controlled variables in the experiment such as human population containment. Our experimental dystopian society centers on one goal for survival: the ability to recycle. By recycling our community encourages innovation in the reuse of materials such as shipping containers for housing, all the while learning the value of to “waste not, want not.” Our intentions in creating a dystopian society are not to aim for the unattainable utopia, but rather to analyze the failures to better understand the complexities of society’s problems.

Group Members

Jessica Correll

John Giliberto

Elizabeth Miller