PROTOPIA is an exhibition proposal that highlights the creative process, based on the idea of housing as a utopia.
The exhibition presents a series of exercises carried out by different professionals, all starting from the same point of departure. The various outcomes reflect the interpretative plurality of each discipline and the nature of the creative process itself—unconventional and non-competitive.
Each participant receives an empty cardboard box by regular post, along with the following set of sequential and structured instructions:

1. Create a drawing based on a text: an adaptation of the short story Casa Tomada by Julio Cortázar.
2. Construct an object based on the drawing and the text.
3. Contextualize the object using the box itself as a frame and a curated selection of printed images.

The images address forced displacement from housing in various contexts: humanitarian crises, evictions, real estate speculation, the fragmentation and reduction of habitable space, spaces filled with memories, spaces emptied out... all pointing to the idea of access to housing as a contemporary utopia. The cardboard boxes used to frame the works symbolically represent moving boxes that carry objects and memories—and, in some cases, become the actual homes of those who have none.

PROTOPIA is both process and utopia. It is a revisionist approach to the creative process that invites reflection and debate. It challenges a shared social issue—housing—by setting utopian ideals against material realism, individualism against collectivity, and dislocation against contextualization.