You try it! create your Utopia.

Imagine a good place where everyone is happy, there's lots of delicious food to eat and no one is fighting. Where is this place? The answer is 'utopia'. Utopia is an imaginary and ideal place. Many people from history through today--artists, writers and thinkers of every type--have asked themselves, can a utopia exist?

In China, an ancient poem called "The Peach Blossom Spring", written by Tao Qian during 376-397 CE, describes the journey of a fisherman who discovers a utopia by passing through a cave into the land of immortals. This poem inspires us to seek peace and enlightenment--our personal utopia--just beyond the surface of everyday life.

In mid -19th century America, a group of American writers and artists known as the Transcendentalists believed they had discovered paradise. As the author Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Nature is to be seen as the ultimate expression of God's will". The Transcendentalists felt that the beauty and peace of the North American wilderness was heaven on earth, and humanity is the smallest piece in this utopia.

Emerson stressed that in order to create utopia--a social utopia--people needed to find a balance between civilization and nature.

In the 20th century, people thought of utopia from a political perspective. Thinkers developed communism, facism and socialism as models of a perfect society--a political utopia.

Religions also have their descriptions of utopia, such as jannat (Islam), tengoku (Shinto), heaven (Christianity), Gan Eden (Judaism), moksha (Hinduism) and nirvana (Buddhism)--each of these words describe a beautiful place of perfection, peace and happiness, a paradise.

In our digital age people imagine a new concept of utopia, where machines do the heavy, hard or unpleasant work while people relax and enjoy life--a technological utopia.

As you can see, there are many ways to think about utopia. Now let's see what your utopia looks like!

1. Think about the future. What will the world look like? How will we live? What will be happening?

2. Describe your vision of the future. Use anything you like--photographs, text, collage, computer graphics, drawing, paint.