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Arden UK

MA Design Management

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Arden University

Design for Sustainability Online Short Course

Design for Sustainability is a course for designers and people who work with design, and offers a hands-on introduction to integrating sustainability within the design process. It is multi-disciplinary, and so is applicable to all design disciplines (fashion, product, service, business model, architecture, UX, strategy, etc.).

This four-week course will introduce practical ideas, concepts, and processes through which designers can create more sustainable outcomes at all levels. Design for Sustainability takes you through the basic tools of designing for sustainability: Systems mapping, design thinking for sustainability, circular economy and an understanding of impacts. All aimed at defining and integrating sustainability in your work and you taking ownership of sustainability.

You will learn through a combination of discussions, short lectures, inspirational case studies, introduction to tools, and practical application of tools through hands-on assignment briefs.

This is a course for designers and people who work with design, seeking an introduction and experience in working with sustainability in the design process. Design for Sustainability is suitable both for experienced professionals and for recent graduates wanting to make the sustainability agenda their own, as well as for both sustainability novices and sustainability passionistas, who have already taken the first couple of steps.

Admissions Option 2

Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.

Scholarships and Funding Option 2

Introduction to sustainability in design, why, how and what

Design thinking for design for sustainability

Introduction to design for sustainability tools

Exploration of systems thinking and systems mapping

Introduction to circular economy concepts

Life cycle analysis and impact measurement

Learning from nature: Permaculture principles, biomimicry

Curriculum

Gain an overview of the main drivers of sustainability, internationally and cross-sectoral

Know the main strategies for sustainability

Explore the sustainability potential in your work

Understand the sustainable impact in your own value chain

Have insight into designing processes for sustainability

Understand the tools to advocate sustainable design and create better or more sustainable designs yourself

Work on a live project of your choosing, designing for sustainability

Present your design for sustainability to the group and receive tutor feedback

Program Outcome

Program Tuition Fees Option 2

The same course content and learning outcomes

Program delivery

Summer Course

Master

Design Studies

Design Management

Sustainability Studies

Sustainable Design

University of the Arts London (UAL) is ranked 2nd in the world for Art and Design according to the 2023 QS World University Rankings®, for the fifth year in a row. It has an international reputation in art, design, communication, fashion, media and performing arts. Home to a diverse body of 18,000 students from 130 countries, UAL has over 100 years’ history of teaching across its institutions – Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion, Wimbledon College of Arts and UAL Creative Computing Institute.

Design for Sustainability Online Short Course

Scholarships

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Introduction