“…Although these initiatives were undergirded by laudable ideals such as collective living, gender equality and the collapsing of the producer/consumer divide, these goals were oftentimes advanced by prioritising rationalism and functional zoning, resulting in reduced richness of social and spatial fabrics and absolutist totalities with formal and stylistic rules. Other works expressed discomfort with the complicity between utopian projects and the imposition of reason, order, surveillance and control, which gave rise to elitist veneer rather than mass empowerment (Coleman, 2005; Datta, 2015; Miles, 2007; Pinder, 2002, 2005; Wilson and Bayón, 2018). While these lessons in history must be learned, it does not entail the dismissal of the point that architecture is part of the “continual elaboration and invention of social action” (Coleman, 2005: 5).…”