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Golden Barnyard: Cockaigne of Everyman by Wutopia Lab


"The Past is never dead, it's not even past."

— <Faithful Place> Tana French


Wutopia Lab has transformed the abandoned barnyard in the Dongtanyuan outpost of Bright Food (Group) into the Cockaigne of Everyman.


The heat was scorching, standing on the crumbling base, the rickety barn, equipment storage, and office and the patchy flooring. Mr. Wu asked me, who was wiping sweat, what could be done to this 8,400 square meters, 220m total length of the barnyard. I was a little lost due to the strangeness and the displacement of context.

 

Designer: Wutopia Lab

Photographer: CreatAR Images


Ordinary people


Where did the moments I lived go