On our February project day, we, the tenth-grade students from Szentes, continued the Maker’s Red Box: The City of the Future project. This time, Uncle Géza Tisza also participated in the session on behalf of the company, who worked with our teachers and thus became our “joint mentor”.
Before we started the main activity of the day, 3D design and printing, we reviewed how far we had come last time. Specific people are responsible for the different segments of our planned city (e.g. housing, energy, industry, agriculture, transport, sustainability), but we need to develop an effective plan with future-oriented innovations in our own field of expertise so that it can be integrated into the operation and model of the city as a whole.
The process therefore requires a lot of cooperation and joint communication, since the areas of responsibility are different, but they have an impact on the entire settlement. Throughout the entire project implementation, continuous consultation through problem propositions and possible answers, as well as advocacy and conflict of interest, is of paramount importance.
We must determine the priorities of our city ourselves. Is the development of industry and thus the creation of jobs more important or environmental protection? Or can these two be solved together? How? Can transport between residential areas and centrally located service centers be made efficient or must the entire city be decentralized? How will we solve the energy supply in the future, with a fusion reactor or through renewable energies? These are just a few of the many questions that, even upon first reading, arouse a lot of thoughts in all of us.
While it is important to get acquainted with 21st century techniques and use them during construction during the joint work, it is perhaps even more important and forward-looking that we can think about these topics together and then perhaps, even if this project is over, it could also mean the beginning of a much longer one that will last throughout our lives through the perspectives we have become aware of.
Szentes 1st and 2nd group recipients and mentor Sándor Kovács.