800 acres mostly likely in the inexpensive flatlands of Saskatchewan. Big enough that you can drive around and feel like you are driving around a real suburb with stores and parks, strip malls and cinemas, a campsite and small lake (even if man-made). Recreate Ontario Place ?

There is a museum with a really good rock and fossil collection and those old tin clips you used to have to put on your lapel to prove you paid admission. Brown architecture not grey. There are wooden playground with tire swings. There’s a Blockbuster and also a few independent video stores, stocked only with movies released before ‘95. There’s a big Cineplex with a magnificent arcade and a few small independent theatres. McDonald’s playrooms all over the place.

Population is hand-picked — document the whole thing to allow accessible repatterining for the general population

Oh and the portals >>>> they will be tunnels opening from various hidden points: in the playrooms, in basement crawlspaces, under beds. They lead to the upside-down shadowlands, liminal spaces that are eerie and sexually charged, some as infinite and recursive as the backrooms — these help regain access to closed off corridors of the original human psyche

INCLUDES

Biosphere with indoor parks and activities providing free communal space in the winter

Yours ever-interestingly,

Robin Richardson

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