As I'm posting all of my "homework" on this blog,  here goes with my vision of Utopia - Utopia being something that has a connection with Modernists, who got all excited about art becoming an organising force in society through such things as architecture.

Utopia

Non art related ideas  

Radically expand opportunities for people to do suitable community work and incentivise them to do it.

 Expand opportunities: 

•          Introduce a working week of 4 days working for yourself and 1 day working for the community
•          Reorganise a lot of community services to accommodate volunteers
•          Get volunteers to run training courses.

 Incentivise people to volunteer:

•         Volunteers earn “credits”
•          Credits can be used to reduce Council Tax
•         Win the right to vote once you’ve earned a minimum amount of credits
•          Entry to further education requires a minimum amount of credits
•         Old age pension increased once you’ve earned a minimum amount of credits

 Goals:

•          Make volunteering an expected activity for all ages
•         Tackle loneliness of old people       
•       Harness skills of retired people.
•            Encourage helping your neighbour
•          Address child-minding.
•          Encourage participation in community affairs

Put tax “carrots and sticks” in place so that cooperatives become the predominant way of setting up and running businesses.

      So everybody is incentivised to work for the best interests of the business they own, and everybody is rewarded appropriately for success.

Impose 100% tax on earnings of more than £1 million a year and use it to raise the tax threshold for hard-up families.

      Try to reduce the difference between the haves and have-nots

Utopia

Art related ideas  

Impose  20% tax on sales of art worth more than £1 million.

Use the revenues from to fund a revolution in galleries and museums (see below).

Make art much more public

• Put a system in place where advertisers have to match whatever they do to promote products etc with an equal amount of “space” for popular art (see below).
• Put a system in place where art can be submitted for public viewing and can be voted for by the public.
• Move collections out of galleries and museums and disperse them among large numbers of public buildings.
• Turn the empty galleries and museums into places where everybody can experiment with making art.  Use the tax revenue from expensive art sales (see above) to fund this.

Recognise gardens as “living” works of art

• Encourage artists to realise that a garden is a giant canvas in which they can immerse themselves.
• Use public gardens to house some of the artwork moved out of galleries and museums.
• Include garden design as a subject at art college.