Seeing: Utopia/Dystopia Utopia/Dystopia Hieronymus Bosch 'Garden of earthly delights' 1503 -1504 A Utopia is an idealised world - a perfect community or society. Eden, Heaven, Nirvana , Shangri-La etc. However, one persons idea of Heaven could be another persons Hell. The opposite of a Utopia is a Dystopia . A Dystopia