1. What is a community?
2. What makes up a community？
3. How do communities differ?

Please read/view the following resources to formulate your understanding of the questions above. Share your own thoughts to these questions HERE.

• "What community means to me: 17 Teenage Perspectives"
• "What is Community Anyway?"

Examine some of the resources below in order to answer the following questions. Please submit your group responses HERE. You may respond using paragraph text, mind maps, video, drawings etc...

1. What role does science and technology play in sustaining a community?
2. To what extent can a community be sustained without science and technology?

Readings

• 《一个住满了骗子的荷兰小镇，却拥有全世界最美的人性》
• 《世界幼儿园》
• Why do development projects fail?
• What will the pigs eat?
• "How artificial wombs will change our ideas of gender, family and equality"
• Sustainable technologies at home
• "Sustainable community development: from what's wrong to what's strong | Cormac Russell | TEDxExeter"

Additional resources (Optional)

• "Building sustainable communities and their worldwide network | Hiroyuki Sato | TEDxKyoto"
• "Old Ideas, New Knowledge, Sustainable Communities | Nels Paulson | TEDxUWStout"
• "Sustainable community designs for social impact: Carol Naughton at TEDxAtlanta"
• "The art of possibilizing: Ronald Ligtenberg at TEDxDamlaan"
• "Soul of the community"
• "The Power of Community: Pete Pelberg at TEDxLMSD"
• "The Power of Community inspired by Nature: Saskia van den Muijsenberg at TEDxDamlaan"
• 《盛港托儿所设在社区里》

How can you improve the sustainability of the environment and/or community for the organisation you are attached to?

• Students prepare, on butchers paper, some practical ideas or suggestions.
  • Include details about:
    • what the ideas or suggestions will be like
    • the objectives
    • a rationale
• The Butchers Paper ideas will be collected by the teachers. Please include your Class and IDS group number in the form CLASS/NUMBER (eg: 208/1) clearly on the bottom of the page.
• Students carry out a gallery walk through other groups' paper presentations.
• Submit your individual vote for the most interesting/promising idea from your gallery walk.
  • HERE for 201-203
  • HERE for 204-206
  • HERE for 207-209
  • HERE for 210-212

Use the Compass points thinking routine to reflect on one idea from the gallery walk (could be your own or another group's idea)

Write your responses HERE

E = Excited

What excites you about this idea or proposition? What’s the upside?

W = Worrisome

What do you find worrisome about this idea or proposition? What’s the downside?

N = Need to Know

What else do you need to know or find out about this idea or proposition? What additional information would help you to evaluate things?

S = Stance or Suggestion for Moving Forward

What is your current stance or opinion on the idea or proposition? How might you move forward in your evaluation of this idea or proposition?

Based on your understanding of the intricate relationship between sustainability, community and environment, express your thoughts as a drawing/concept map.

Submit your response HERE.