Let’s Build Utopia
What's Utopia?
A utopia is an ideal place or happy place, where everything is better. We want you to imagine what your ideal world would be like.
There are hundreds of dystopian films and TV series; from The Hunger Games to Mad Max, from The Matrix to Stranger Things, in which the world has become a very bad and scary place indeed. And while we can't always make everything absolutely perfect, thinking about what your ideal would be, can help us all think about how we could make things fairer for everyone.
Let's Get Creative!
This is a ‘create a zine’ activity that you can complete with pens, paper and glue but there are also lots of fun digital tools on the website to use if you prefer. Or you can do both!
What you will need:
Colouring pens or pencils
Design utopia and create a zine (PDF 
, 3,384kb)
Health and Safety
- Non-toxic colouring pens should be used
- Scissors may be sharp and young children should be supervised when using them.
You can find out more and submit your work to the online gallery here.
This activity is from the Teaching and Learning Team, University of York.
Staying safe online
Please remember to warn other members of your household that you are taking a photo or creating a video to post online, and check what background is going to be visible. Under 18s should be supervised, and we would recommend that you use first names only and don’t include anything that identifies you (including your face) or your home address.
About the presenters
The Teaching and Learning team are: Tom Smith, Susan Halfpenny, Steph Jesper, Siobhan Dunlop, Alice Bennett, Arielle Redman, Phil Bainbridge and Sam Hazeldine. We all do our best to help people do fun and interesting things with computers at the University of York.