Wild(life) city: Above Sea Level

Here is Justina's final design thesis looking at the post-apocalyptic world and education place in the future communities. Set in the 2100s, this project explores how architecture can become a catalyst for social change, creating fertile ground for the rise of a civic economy - where communities come together to reimagine and rebuild cities.

The scheme seeks an alternative, small poleis-based city model that responds to the changing environment, actively preserves it, and learns to live with it rather than against it.

As communities start to move into poleis, 22nd-century education follows suit. School is not a learning factory; instead, it is a place to exchange knowledge, form relationships, and respond to the world around. The project particularly focuses on the open-plan Primary School and reimagines what this new education might look like in the future. The new school is based on existing open-plan models and Montessori education systems, which arguably prepare pupils for the challenges facing their generation, where they are meant to heal the planet and learn from the mistakes made by their predecessors.