Preparing for the Year 3000

10/24/2018

Claire Dixon (‘21)

The Grade 10/11 Green Industries class visited Design Exchange, a museum and learning centre that examines creativity and design across various disciplines including architecture, product design, and technology. Green Industries student Claire Dixon (‘21) wrote about the experience.

For the Green Industries Grade 10/11 class, we went on a field trip to Design Exchange. We learned more about landscaping and architecture, which are concepts we will be learning about later on in the year.

We were split up into groups where we were all given the same challenge: it is the year 3000 and all life is gone except for us. We had to design and make a model of a building that would allow day-to-day things like education and sports to continue. On top of that we had to use the concepts we had learned earlier that day about the actual physical structure of our models and how they would work in the year 3000.

After building and presenting our models to the group, we took a tour of some of the museum’s sculptures and pieces. We looked at objects we use daily, like chairs and music players, and how they evolved over time based on people's needs. After the day of building and touring, we all had a great idea as to how some of our units are going to look later on in the year.

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Students presented their finished models and talked about the concepts that guided their design process.
In teams, students applied what they learned earlier in the day to design innovative buildings.
A proposed plan for a more eco-friendly building.

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