utopia then and now: the ideal as method   As part of Utopia Then and Now , we explored the shifting boundaries of the ideal world through the lens of architecture, art, technology, and design. By looking back at radical 1960s visions and forward toward lunar colonies and regenerative fabrics, we gathered a collection of insights on what it means to build a better way of being. Across disciplines, the first chapter of our renewed editorial focus reveals a decisive shift away from singular visions of ideal worlds toward something more complex, unstable, and human. Utopia no longer appears as a fixed destination. Instead, it emerges as a tool, a question, and often a contradiction.…