Mapping with Care as an Outline for Post-neoliberal Architecture Methodologies – Tools of the “Never-Never school”

Modernist planning brought a tradition of producing top-down utopian blueprints of the ideal habitat for the modern man. Decades later, planners still practice this tabula rasa approach, filling ‘empty’ places with their ideas. Yet their ambitions to envision alternatives necessary to address societal challenges are weakened by neoliberalism. This paper explores how critical examination and subversion of Modernism’s theoretical baggage could liberate planning/architecture from their current ties to neoliberalism and enable them to image ‘good places’ for all. Through a critical analysis of Never-Never School, we propose a planning approach based on utopias, situated knowledges and care.