SUSTAINABILITY DESIGN THINKING
(objectives)
To examine some of the major problems of sustainable development (including issues related to food, water, and energy resources, climate change, and protection of ecosystem services) To use design thinking methods to make sustainability compelling, impactful and realizable. To analyze contextual, functional and human-centered design thinking techniques to promote sustainable design of products, services, environments by considering social space, form, environment, energy, economics, and health. To improve human well-being while preserving Earth’s life support systems (air, water, climate, ecosystems) To explore how science and technology can contribute to the solution of some of the most critical problems of the 21st Century To integrate solutions that draw on different disciplines To give a sense to the well-being of people as well as to the environment
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