Between April and November 2007,
volunteers of all ages and walks of life lived in a small community
in the Scottish Highlands based on three main ideas:
- LEARNING – each member had some area of skill or knowledge that they can teach to the others.
- WORK – everyone had to
contribute by working.
- TIME-LIMITED – this was
not an attempt to found an ongoing community. Volunteers stayed
for up to three months. The
experiment lasted for nine months.
The volunteers pretended they were living in the future, informed
by a detailed scenario.
The utopia experiment was planned and led by Dr Dylan Evans.
It is hoped that the project will stimulate debate about the need for
our society to adopt a more sustainable way of living. Information
about the project will be disseminated by means of various media,
including the internet, and a book that Dr Dylan Evans will write about
the experiment.