IDN2120: Designing For Sustainability
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
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Overview
This unit covers a range of design theories and practices that underpin enduring and resilient ways of reducing the negative impacts of the human production of objects and environments and their associated sociological behaviours. Various perspectives of production, consumption and exchange are considered including Life Cycle Analysis tools, Recycling, Re-use, Dematerialisation and Reduction. The outcomes intend to demonstrate knowledge of the core themes of designing objects and environments that are sustainable to society, economy and nature.
Assessment
1 - Project 1 - 30% 2 - Project 2 - 30% 2 - Project 3 - 40% 2 - Project 3 - 40% 1 - Project 1 - 20% 1 - Project 2 - 60% 1 - Project 3 - 20%
Workload
12 hours per week including 4 contact hours plus 8 hours of independent study.
Sustainable development goals
Adopted by the UN Member States in 2015, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. Read more
This unit covers content related to the following SDGs:
9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities 12. Responsible Consumption and Production
