Every day for the next few weeks, we’ll be taking you on a tour of our Utopia project, examining in a little more detail how some of the individual artists considered their approach to the project, and what they were thinking about when designing their own little part of Utopia. We begin, sensibly, with grid reference A1, which was tackled by Tim Waterfield and Steve Burnett.
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"As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks it up like a sponge and expands. A description of [the city] as it is today should contain all [the city's] past. The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the bags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls."
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Grand Prix winner and Coup de Coeur winner, Académie Charles Cros
