*‘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. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.’* What Wilde understood, and what Cook was also suggesting, is that utopia is not a place that exists somewhere beyond reality. It is a way of thinking about the present. A tool for dismantling what already exists to make room for what might be. As Frederic R.…