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ARE WE ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS? Rethinking Post-Graduate Design Education Towards Sustainable Visions for the Future
Clare Brass & Francesco Mazzarella E&PDE ‘15, Loughborough, 03/09/15
A GREAT DISRUPTION
Complex Sustainability Challenges
Great Expectations?
New Drivers for Design
ARE WE ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
?
A New Ecology of Design Culture
Rawles, 2010
SustainRCA, 2013
Chicken-centred design for welfare poultry industry
CHICKEN RUN
EDUCATING THE “O-SHAPED” DESIGNER
Brass, 2015
DISCLOSED
Ferrec and Wakely, 2014
Transparency certification system providing customised shopping information
Mazzarella and Engler, 2014
Bennett, 2014
CORAL3
Social enterprise with multiple stakeholders using 3D printing to tackle ocean acidification
Yee et al., 2008
Designer’s Roles
• Deeply understanding a project’s economic, social and environmental drivers, that consider viability, sustainability and scalability.
• Nurturing entrepreneurial skill sets to ensure entire design process challenges current economic models.
• Pitching ideas through mapping and systematic visualisation of the implications of all design decisions.
• Managing innovation through new tools (open data, data visualisation, PSS, PD, scenario prototyping...).
EXAMPLES OF BEST PRACTICE FROM SUSTAINRCA
SustainRCA Show & Awards, 2014
SustainRCA supports students across the College to address sustainability challenges
in innovative and entrepreneurial ways
Embedding sustainability as core learning objective and holistic assessment criterion
Sustainability Workflow
OOHO!
Open source, DIY, Cradle2Cradle, biomimetic water “packaging”
Couche, Garcia Gonzalez and Paslier, 2014
• Blurred boundaries of the design discipline. • Great expectations for design to respond to new challenges. • Growing student awareness of social and environmental issues. • Increasing interest from new stakeholders in the design process. • Emerging design practice outstripping research capacity.
• Building cross-disciplinary collaborations towards a rigorous research agenda.
• Triggering design-led biocentrism. • Exploring solutions to wicked problems through new tools, assessed according to sustainability criteria. • Asking the right questions to drive creation of a sustainable future.
Challenges
Opportunities
