Survival Project 2022

Civilization vs Savagery

• Students had several Philosophy and Ethics workshops around Civilization vs Savagery .

• The then watched 'Lord of the Flies' by William Goulding.

• In Lord of the Flies, the fragile civilisation created by the boys on the island fragments and the boys divide into two camps. Ralph and Piggy remain ‘civilised’, continuing to obey and uphold the rules, despite the threat from violence of Jack’s hunters, who symbolise savagery. Jack’s group don’t just act in a savage manner – they paint their faces in order to look ‘savage’, and to enhance their levels of intimidation. Lord of the Flies is an allegorical tale of the danger when civilisation breaks down, and savagery takes over.

SCENARIO

You have been washed up on a remote tropical island with a group of other people. You need to make rules and organize yourself to make your community survive without it turning into chaos.

Learning Outcome

By the end of the project you will have completed a slide show that will involve you designing and setting rules for a civilization to exist on an Island that you have been washed up on with a group of other people.

You will demonstrate the ability to create and design a device that would help with your survival.

Then complete a model of this device.