Architects of a Future we want
Future Digital Wellness Village is an immersive creative project where Year 5 pupils from St Hatcham Free School in the lewisham area of south london step into the role of Architects of the Future, exploring how humans and technology might live well together.
Over three creative sessions, pupils explored five key areas of digital wellbeing through research, imagination, collaboration, and artmaking. Together, they became Architects of the Future, considering how humans and technology might coexist in healthier, more balanced ways.
Inspired by Lawrence Lek’s dystopian worlds of surveillance and automation exhibited at Goldsmiths CCA and Rob Hopkins’ From What Is to What If, pupils moved from examining the challenges of digital life to imagining hopeful alternatives.
Through a collaborative 3D Mind Map Game, pupils explored the positive and negative impacts of technology and possible solutions. They sorted colour-coded digital wellbeing clues and connected ideas with string, turning abstract concepts into a physical floor-based mind map.
Pupils then took part in a guided future visualisation, imagining a world where technology supports creativity, empathy, connection, and balance. They translated these visions through drawing, writing, and collage onto triangular panels.
Working in groups, pupils used their research and future visions to build geodesic Digital Wellness Pods, which came together in the final session to form a collective Future Digital Wellness Village.
