Learning Design for Sustainability

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

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