In year seven cohort this year, we are doing a project called project utopia. project utopia is linked to many subjects but mainly linked with English and innovatED There are quite a few projects inside this massive idea of the “perfect” living space, we did a vision board to show off the ideas you have creative within the time given later we also created a co space to show what we would place on Fremantle. a few weeks later we started creating a visual copy of what we were to place onto Fremantle, however we did have very limited resources, we made it work.

Visiting Fremantle

in term two on the seventeenth on a Tuesday we went to visit the land that is being moved. at the start of this project, we went on a bus ride around Fremantle to see in person what we were working with, the bus ride could have been improved as it was quite short and not have enough time to look at everything and under stand scale which was a massive problem, as not many groups understood the scale correctly. However, we still worked with what we were given.

The Start

This is how it started. We started off reading the book ‘the giver’ which is about being forced into a “perfect” environment, this book is when we first started getting the idea of a ‘perfect reality there was a few projects linked to ‘the giver’ but that’s irrelevant to project utopia. after we finishes ‘the giver’ a few weeks later we got introduced the project utopia. We also started to work on listing aspects of the project including sustainability, housing, green spaces and transport. we had to list what we were to include in the project. the aspect of sustainability was used when creating houses or electricity as some houses are created with materials that may create an lasting harm to the ecosystem around it, away to make houses sustainable is by using eco-friendly materials including gravel, steel, geo cloth and plants.

Vision board

After we finished doing a brainstorm on the aspects of this project, we got to work, we made a 2D version of the vision board before we started gluing stuff on. On the vision, we were not just placing random pictures they had to have a meaning that links the over all project. Linking it I found quite hard as you have to find quite specific houses or roads that fit into the style of Fremantle, you also had to limit the number of words, so you had to find meaning in the pictures and explain it in a script instead of on the board. my vision board group focused on housing and making it affordable but not to cheap, We were also trying to make the houses sustainable and made of possibly recycled shipping containers but we were informed that that was not a great idea as the don’t retain heat that well but when they do they can over heat which makes them not the ideal living space.