Urban Village School Edition

The EOY  is our end of the year project is a project that we do school wide just like the charity fair. This project is planned by the teachers every year. This year we did it on Urban Villllages. An Urban Village is a village that has everything you need in one area. It's three components are Work, Live and Play. This end of the year project had three phases. Phase one was to choose a part of the school and redesign it. Then we made our company and mission state ment. Then we got paired with anouther group and they were our clients and we were theirs. So we presented our ideas to each other. Then we started to build each others ideas. We had two weeks to make a model of their redesigned space. Our last and second phase was where we thought about what our school would look like if we turned it into a urban village our school being work play and we did not need live because we are a school. Then we had to find how much our school would cost if we built and furnished it. We had a Budget of $15 million and we had to make a Blue Print to show our layout. Then we had to learn about Urban Villages that could be made in the near future and do they have the seven qualities of life. Then we had to figure out does our Urban Village have the seven qualities of life. Then we had to make a pitch to present our clients idea for redesigning their part of campus. Lastly in science we made a presentation of one clean/green city in the world and what action the took in from a list of 21 actions that make it a clean city. Then we had to find 3 action that our Urban Village was going to have and how we were going to make sure that it would do that.

Backward-looking

I did not know much about Urban villages before this project. In fact I didn't know a thing about them, I hadn't even heard of them. Basically all that I knew is that their were places that had almost everything you need in them. I actually went to an Urban Village almost every week. I went to a place on Cottle road. It had appartments, was right next to Kaiser Permanente, had millions of shops and restaurants and parking. 

Inward-Looking

I got most frustrated and feel most frustrated about the people in my group. Because one of them was always getting off task, one of the was doing things the team didn't want and doing things without asking, and the other person in my group got frustrated with whatever we did, deleted peoples work because he didn't like it, and had times where he didn't talk to the group because he was mad.

Outward-Looking

I don't think that we did our work like other groups because their were many groups who were doing the library and they made it just a giant rectangle like square and filled that when we did ours a "L" shape and made the walls, so that it was built up.

Forward-Looking

One think that I want to improve on is probably giving people in my group more to do so that they had more to do and did not get off task. Also I would probably communicate with my team members more. That would help me make sure that everything was going well and done so that I wouldn't have to get stressed out about it.