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The area was named Utopia in the s by early pastoralists, after they discovered rabbits so prolific and tame they could catch them by hand.

The population of between and 1, people live in some 16 small camps, dotted across an area of 2, square kilometres. The community is structured on extended family groups whose camps are generally situated on their clan lands. There are about working artists in the community. In September Margo Neale and the Ronin Productions team made an official trip up north as part of ongoing consultations with the Utopia community.

I would like to acknowledge the invaluable assistance given by members of the Utopia community to this exhibition. In particular Barbara Weir who generously and freely offered her time and assistance once she knew I was heading to Utopia with the Ronin Films crew by invitation from other community members.

She hopped on board to pave the way in a number of ways. Most notably she took us to all the right people in all the right places, no matter how hard it was or how long it took.

Being a language speaker was a great asset. It was important that we all understood each other. Her respect for culture, for the custodians of Alhalkere and observance of protocols was both dogged and inspirational.

Permission was given for the Boundary Bore mob to take us to Alhalkere, September Photo: Ronin Productions. A mob of people from Canberra with cameras during the first weeks of the Northern Territory intervention was not a good look and Barbara did a lot of explaining on our behalf. She took us to a very special camp of Emily's close female relatives and relatives of hers — a camp that is rarely visited by 'outsiders'. Their respect for Barbara and her family was clearly demonstrated in a number of ways and in particular by the way the women honoured us with a special series of songs about Alhalkere for the education film that goes in the exhibition's Utopia Room.

They also wanted us to film their stories about their family lineage and connection to Alhalkere, which was indeed a great privilege. We camped together in swags on the red earth and Barbara kept us supplied with bush tucker as well as lots of information about her early years with Emily and her family. She was a deadly goanna hunter, constantly stopping to chase yet another one over the sand hills that no one else could see for looking.

Barbara and Gloria Petyarre along with Barbara's son Fred Torres braved the depths of winter with snow to attend the opening in Osaka.

The community remains a construction site the design is only about 3 percent complete , run by the nonprofit Cosanti Foundation. Though an industrial complex, the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans was designed to be a utopia nonetheless, a place of life, work and worship for employees of the facility and their families. Ledoux was known for creating utopian designs that supported human activities and interaction, though many were never constructed. Salt production at the site began in and continued until production officially stopped in While it was in use, it was far from the utopia Ledoux planned.

Workers struggled under harsh conditions and the communal housing reportedly aggravated personal conflicts. Today, what remains of the complex has been restored and has Unesco World Heritage status. Christiania , the autonomous neighborhood in Copenhagen formed in , was founded by a journalist deep into the free love movement. Jacob Ludvigsen envisioned a self-sustaining society built from scratch—though using preexisting buildings, since the site had abandoned army barracks already—with a goal of maintaining the psychological and physical health of a group over that of an individual.

In practice, things quickly fell apart. Drugs and crime are still a problem in Christiania, but the commune continues to thrive.

The neighborhood today runs on tourism dollars from shops, restaurants and local events. Houses are beautifully painted and the entrance to the neighborhood takes visitors through a sculpture park made from reclaimed and recycled items. This town may be a fortress, but Palmanova was also created to be a utopia by the superintendents of the Republin of Venice—a self-sustaining community where everyone was equal and had a purpose, in a city that also just happened to be a death machine.

It was built in to protect the Venetian Empire from invasions by the Austrian and Turkish militaries. The fortress is a nine-pointed star with three rings expanding out from a hexagonal center.

It was a geometrically perfect city, but alas, no one wanted to live there. So instead, the military stayed and in , a large number of pardoned prisoners moved in to government-deeded properties—though it's unsure if they lived by the utopian ideals the city was founded on. Now, the soldiers and prisoners have moved out of Palmanova, and the residents Italy tried so desperately to attract have officially entered.

About 5, people live inside the walls. In , a group of Finnish settlers moved from Finland to Brazil, founding the colony of Penedo under the tutelage of pastor Toivo Uuskallio, who was convinced god wanted him to start a Finnish utopia in the tropics. According to the community rules, everyone was vegan, no one smoked or drank, and everyone worked together on a farm with no income. Tourism took over shortly after Penedo began to fall apart, and now the area is known as a Finnish enclave in Brazil.

Even Santa has a house in the town, where he will welcome guests all year. Jennifer Billock is an award-winning writer, bestselling author, and editor.