Modern Capitol
Community: We picked community as one of our values as we believe that it’s important to connect with other people and have a sense of belonging in our city. To represent community, we decided to build a community centre to gather people together. In the community centre, people can socialize and do group activities such as fighting/combat classes, gaming rooms, and quizzes. On top of that, spending quality time with each other is important. We do this by creating a concert hall that would involve entertaining such as a wide variety of movies and live television shows, and a park where people can walk and socialize.
Safety: In our city, safety is a priority, so our people remain comfortable and secure. We built a fire station to take care of any fires that would occur along with a police station where people can report issues and crimes. With a sense of protection around the city, people can feel safer and comfortable.
Health: Health is an important value for us as staying healthy leads to a long and happy life. We want our people to be ensured stability. We help ensure our people are healthy in our city by building a hospital as well as a gym where people can get access to medical help and exercise. The hospital and gym can be accessed by anyone. Additionally, there are restaurants around the city that serves food and drinks. Lastly, in the community centre there can be access to groups where people can express their feelings to ensure their mental health is stable.
Nature: Nature is one of our values as we want a city with a lot of greenery. We put a lot of grass and flowers around our buildings as well as including a park where people can go out and enjoy the fresh air. We didn’t want a busy city with no greenery around, therefore, we ensured that any areas flourishing with greenery could be accessed.
Symbolism in colours: We picked a green and blue background for our city to represent our values. The colour green represents health and nature which are two of our values. The colour blue represents stability and serenity which corresponds with the values safety and community.
Communication Reflection
In this project, we had to create our version of an Utopian city that represents the core values we chose as a group. The program my group used to create our design was City Creator. Since we only had two classes to meet up to work on the design, we needed to communicate with each other during the week. We created a Snapchat group chat where we could ask questions as well as check up on each other’s work. We often pitched a bunch of ideas to one another and jotted them all down on a word document. Then we narrowed them down by listening to each other’s opinions about each idea to come to a consensus. My responsibility in my group was writing out the values on a word document and creating a list of buildings that would feature for each value. Each member contributed to the project as we didn’t necessarily assign tasks but rather built onto ideas with suggestions. We worked well as a group as we used our class time efficiently by completing the tasks that would be difficult to do online such as establishing our values and the buildings we wanted to do. During class, we were able to complete a lot which allowed the work to be easy to accomplish during the week. Decisions were made as a group. We would discuss to make sure everyone is confident in the decision. We didn’t face many problems, but if we did we would probably solve them by brainstorming solutions together. I’m satisfied with the final product as I think it represents our values well. Something I would improve next time is maybe staying more organized and communicate with my group members to check whether we’re at the same pace.
