98: Transscalar Utopias: Analysis of Utopian Practices Divided Into Three Architectural Scales

This work investigates utopian thought as a tool for social change and analyzes the role of technology in constructing new realities. Utopia is understood as a critical analysis of the present and a transformative instrument, contrasting with its popular notion as an unattainable ideal. The study proposes architecture and design as catalysts for imagination, employing queer strategies to challenge normative boundaries and dichotomies such as man-woman, urban-wild, public-private, and real-impossible. Technologies like biotechnology, architecture, and design are considered capable of reconfiguring human relations with the environment, others, and the body, when detached from market constraints. Methodologically, the research combines qualitative bibliographic analysis on utopia and speculative design with an architectural experiment titled Transscalar Utopias. This project explores three architectural scales through speculative visual works that act as design provocations. The findings indicate that speculative practices can generate critical reflections and open pathways for imagining alternative futures within architectural discourse.