My son is working on a project with his friends. They are building a "future city" with a design emphasis on waste. This is part of the 8th grade G&T curriculum in Keyport Public Schools. When he told me this and asked me if I had any thoughts about it, I put together a concept and a few questions for them.
Welcome to "Para mee seeus", the city designed after a paramecium.
Cities are layers of multiple systems that have characteristics similar with other systems. What if we modeled a city after an organ-ism not an actual human city? What systems could we model? What goals could we achieve?
Some questions for exploration:
How do resources flow in (food, raw materials) and out (waste, byproducts)?
What about external threats? What are defenses like (de fences)?
Governance?
Place in the larger context? What contributions are made to the whole, to other cities?
We'll see if they pick up the concept. Regardless, my next post will begin to explore the parallels and possibilities for organ-izing a city.
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