Designing the sustainable city of tomorrow

A POSITIVE HUMAN FUTURE: Designing the sustainable city of tomorrow

Length: 4x sessions, 4 hours total, but you can pick out activities that interest you the most!
Age: 9+. Older students should spend more time on sessions 2 and 3
Group size: This workshop would work best for 10-25 students

This workshop was sponsored by PA Consulting, an innovation and transformation consultancy. The workshop is designed to support PA’s Raspberry Pi competition 2020, an annual contest which challenges school and college students nationwide to put their innovation and programming skills to the test. It can be used by schools taking part in the competition as a way to generate ideas for competition entries.

However, this resource can also be used by schools that are not taking part in the competition. We hope lots of schools will enjoy using it to facilitate inspiring discussions in their classrooms about the future of cities! It’s a great subject to stimulate creative thinking and debate about real world issues, from social mobility to healthcare.

In this workshop, students will:

• Build knowledge around the history of cities
• Explore and debate the opportunities and challenges of modern city living
• Unpick the data informing us about cities
• Research and evaluate case studies of technological innovation in cities
• Generate ideas of their own for future cities

This resource helps to develop the following skills:
SCEPTICISM: Questioning information to find the truth
REASONING: Justifying a viewpoint
SPEAKING UP: Confidently communicating a viewpoint
OPEN-MINDEDNESS: Listening to other viewpoints

These resources were produced by The Economist Educational Foundation, an independent charity that was set up by The Economist magazine. Combining
the Economist’s journalistic know-how with teaching expertise, we specialise in supporting teachers to facilitate high-quality classroom discussions about the news.