Design
Case studies and similar resources
Product Design with Professional Experience BSc Hons: Design Projects
This module is part of a degree that makes sustainability considerations integral to product design learning. They have five areas of assessment: Human factors, Technicality, Communication, Commercial and Integration. Sustainability is imbedded explicitly into 'Human factors' and Technicality. More...
MDes Textiles with Business Studies: level two project
Sustainability as a Way of Thinking 'It becomes part of the way they think, the same way as they think about designing in a colour range' This unit of study is part of a wider fashion degree in which considerations of ethics, social justice and ecological factors are as automatic as other considerations such as colour range or customer profile. More...
Design Technology PGCE
Dean Hackett runs a project module covering two areas: technical drawing skills and manual workshop skills, using technology such as computer aided design. Students are introduced to these two areas and then given an entire semester to develop relevant skills and competencies. More...
Architecture and Design BA: A lecture from the History and Theory course
Karin Jascke takes a phenomenological approach, looking at architecture 'as a body that is engaged with every other thing that is in the world, and every other being'. More...
Links & further reading
- Toolbox for Sustainable Design Education from Loughborough University
- DEMI is a web-resource based at Goldsmiths College bringing together wide ranging information on design for sustainability.
- Design & Sustainability is a report by Forum for the Future, Design Council, the RSA and the Design Business Association. The Government is also bringing together expertise through a new Sustainable Design Forum to champion eco-design, and promote best practice tools and approaches which can be adopted by designers.