what if utopia was never a destination, but a method? in an era of algorithmic noise, designboom returns to the intersection of imagination and progress. for the first chapter of our new journey, we are examining utopia’s role in the past, present and future, as a way of envisioning a better way of being: with ourselves, with each other, and with the non-human entities that share our planet. ‘I don’t agree with the idea of utopia,’ Sir Peter Cook once told me . Coming from the co-founder of Archigram , the 1960s avant-garde collective that practically defined the architectural imaginary, these words took me by surprise. But Cook, ever the pragmatist among dreamers, clarified: ‘It’s usual to say there is the utopian world, and then there is the real world. But I don’t think there is a dividing line.’ This sentiment reminded me of an Oscar Wilde observation: ‘A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.…