Tammy and Jasmine’s City

values:

Education

For education, there is a university in the centre of our city. We decided to make education a value in our city because we believe that it is an important part of developing into a knowledgeable citizen.

Nature

Nature is an important value in our city, as we support a clean and healthy environment. To represent this throughout our city there are scattered flowers and trees. There is also a small stream running through the park with a bridge going across it. This creates a beautiful and peaceful place for people to spend their free time.

Entertainment

We believe entertainment is a big part of what pulls a city together. In our city, there are many activities to do such as watching movies at the movie theatre, playing soccer or other sports at the sports field, using the track, camp at the campsite, and other activities inside the community centre.

Exercise

In our city, there is a soccer field and walking track to demonstrate a safe place to exercise. We believe exercise is important and should be included in an everyday life to keep active and healthy.

Accessibility

Our city focuses on accessibility because we think that is one of the most important things in creating a good city. To incorporate this value, we added a grocery store, hospital and everything else surrounding the houses for easy access.

Colours:

Yellow

The colour yellow is shown a lot in our town because it represents happiness and energy. We believe a city that makes you happy and energetic is something that allows you to love where you live. A few things that are yellow in our city are the flowers, part of the grocery store, part of the movie theatre design and the community centre, as well as a few more structures.

Red

Red is a colour that shows strength, health, and passion. Multiple things in our city use the colour red such as the flowers and buildings like the hospital and the border of the community centre. Strength, health, and passion are important characteristics that make a city feel comforting and safe.

Blue

Blue represents intelligence as well as peace and relaxation. In our city, we used blue to create our university and movie theatre design. The colour blue is also shown in the park as there is a small stream to add more nature.

Green/Brown

Green and brown represent nature. Throughout our city the main colour you’ll see is green; we have lots of trees, grass and flowers surrounding our city as well as in our park. Brown is shown mostly in the ground/dirt/sand and roads throughout our city. It is also part of the trees and bits of a couple of buildings, as well as the bride overlapping the stream in the park.

Communication Reflection

Our city is about creating an accessible and entertaining place, where people also feel safe and at home. To design our city we used a simple notes app with a drawing feature, we felt it would make our city look nicer since we could add lots of detail and different colours. To communicate throughout the process we used Snapchat, alongside using our limited class time to plan who would do what and when. We listened to each others ideas by sharing them when we had class time and showing each other what we’ve done through Snapchat while at home. My responsibilities were writing the values and colour meanings. We both edited and gave ideas to each other. I think we worked pretty efficiently together, especially when planning and getting everything done on time. We made decisions by asking each other what we liked or letting each other edit and make improvements. We faced a problem with the actual designing of the city part because I couldn’t use the same app we used for drawing, meaning I couldn’t take part in drawing. We solved this by Jasmine being assigned to drawing and me assigned to the main writing piece. We both contributed in each others parts by stating our ideas and editing till we both liked each others final product. I liked the final product and I don’t think I would do anything different if I were to do it again.