Radical Design for Sustainability at TedXBrum
“A look at the huge global changes that have happened over the last few centuries and how to get back on track. Professor Stuart Walker is Director of Design and Co-Director…
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01.03.Approaches to Design for Sustainability
Biomimicry DesignLens
“The Biomimicry DesignLens is a collection of diagrams that visually represent the foundations of our design approach. It includes the core components of this approach: Essential Elements, Life’s Principles, and…
Cradle-2-Cradle
As a radical approach to life-cycle assessment, Cradle to Cradle was brought forward with the book of the same name by McDonough & Braungart in 2010. It takes nature as a…
Circular Economy: An Introduction Course
“Our global society is not sustainable. We all know about the challenges we’re facing: waste, climate change, resource scarcity, loss of biodiversity. At the same time, we want to sustain…
Pause, reflect, activate, impact: Co-designing Consensus and Dissensus for Positive Societal Impacts
“Societies are in transition, trying to balance the forces of globalisation with creating a meaningful (local) life. Our natural world is simultaneously in transition, forced to change by unprecedented levels…
Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation
“In a changing world, everyone designs. Each individual person and each collective subject – from enterprises to institutions, from communities to cities and regions – must define and enhance a…
Product-Service Systems and Sustainability: Opportunities for Sustainable Solutions
“This publication examines the potential of sustainability in product-service systems, particularly in term of life-cycle approaches. It includes case studies of companies offering product-service systems, such as Auto Share of…
The Pearl Diver: The Designer as Storyteller
“Presently, we encounter a wide variety of ways in which designers tell stories of social innovation. This encouraged us to start a reflection on the idea of storytelling emerging from…
Ethics for Design Interactive Documentary
“Every day we use objects, services and applications designed by all kinds of designers. But does this mean that everything a designer conceives is done in our interest? Some interfaces are…
