Autotopia is a critical and speculative design project that explores the potential futures brought about by a massive paradigm shift in the way we understand work and employment. In a world where mass human unemployment has been brought about by technology, Autotopia presents objects that may exist in our not too distant future.  Through the use of storytelling, Autotopia's objects each exist to tell a fragment of a story: one of a changed employment landscape and the adaptations created to sustain a way of life. The implications and periphery information attached to each object are left to the interpretations of a viewer.

Automation is when machinery and computers take over the means of labour and/or production. Automation increases production without increasing human-based labour and avoids many risks associated with human labour. As moving over to automation becomes cheaper and cheaper for companies, the companies will reduce their human workforce in favour of an increased robotic labour force. This phenomena is known as technological unemployment and is predicted to impact the workforce greatly in the years to come.