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Learning Design for Sustainability

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Our future depends on sustainable solutions. Learn why social, economic, and ecological sustainability is important to design and to our world.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. What Is Sustainability?
  • Understanding the basics of sustainability
  • A diversity of sustainable design approaches
  • The sustainable development goals
  • Unleashing sustainability in all its forms
2. Perceptual Innovation
  • Life cycle thinking and natural capital
  • Nurturing life by design through closed-loop thinking
  • Biomimicry: Nature as a design mentor
  • The stages of learning for sustainable business
  • Behavior change through design
3. Technical Innovation
  • Measuring impacts in the supply chain
  • SSWOTS: From impacts to strategies
  • Service design and the sharing economy
  • The circular economy
  • How certifications can build business competencies
4. Social Innovation
  • Reframing design opportunities through social
  • Social design pathways
  • Designing with people, not for them
  • Facilitating change through design
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Scott Boylston

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