Radical Utopia: Digital Catalogue
RMIT Design Archives Journal Vol 13, No 1, 2023 Published to accompany the exhibition ‘Radical Utopia: An Archaeology of a Creative City,’…
Radical Utopia
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 caption: Rennie Ellis, Marietta in Clarence Chai jumpsuit, 1978. © Rennie Ellis SLV
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