Utopiarium
Refugee Week, Margate & Migration Matters Festival, Sheffield
What would your Utopia look like?
Utopiarium is a participatory event where people are invited to sit on beach chairs for around 30 minutes and have a conversation with a stranger about different (and better) versions of the future.
Participants receive a conversation guide and playfully explore the premise of an “ideal society”. Starting with questions such as “what would you bring (or not) to your utopia?” or “what would definetely exist (or not)..." , the conversation later shifts towards bigger topics such as wealth and inequality or educational and criminal systems – confronting our personal dreams with a wider social awareness.
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concept & production: Gustavo Dias-Vallejo
co-producers (Margate): Elinor Seath & Jan Ryan (ARK Cliftonville)
co-producers (Sheffield): Weronika Dvornik & Migration Matters Festival
Refugee Week, Margate & Migration Matters Festival, Sheffield
What would your Utopia look like?
Utopiarium is a participatory event where people are invited to sit on beach chairs for around 30 minutes and have a conversation with a stranger about different (and better) versions of the future.
Participants receive a conversation guide and playfully explore the premise of an “ideal society”. Starting with questions such as “what would you bring (or not) to your utopia?” or “what would definetely exist (or not)..." , the conversation later shifts towards bigger topics such as wealth and inequality or educational and criminal systems – confronting our personal dreams with a wider social awareness.
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"Utopia is on the
horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps, and utopia runs ten steps further away. As much as I may
walk, I never reach it. So, what is the point of utopia? The point is this: it
makes us continually advance."
Eduardo Galeano
***Eduardo Galeano
concept & production: Gustavo Dias-Vallejo
co-producers (Margate): Elinor Seath & Jan Ryan (ARK Cliftonville)
co-producers (Sheffield): Weronika Dvornik & Migration Matters Festival