A collaboration between Cedric Price and activist theatre director Joan Littlewood, the Fun Palace was a utopian attempt to create a radically new place for learning and leisure; providing access to the latest discoveries of 'engineering and science' as well as a place to 'meet, stroll, eat and play.' An industrial infrastructure would create an almost totally reconfigurable 'anti-building' to serve the working classes who would soon be freed from Labour by industrial automation. The proposal was explicitly intended to be 'a temporary measure' in the understanding that its emancipatory effect would eventually make it superfluous.