SUSTAINABLE DESIGN. Ecology, Culture & Human Built Worlds 2016

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1 SUSTAINABLE DESIGN Ecology, Culture & Human Built Worlds 2016 Course Reader Spring 2016

2 Course Reader Sustainable Design: Ecology, Culture & Human Built Worlds CEMUS Centre for Environment and Development Studies Spring Semester 2016 Wed 20 Jan Course Introduction (Video) Welcome to the Anthropocene (2012, 3min38). Available at: (Video) Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigms (2010, 11min40). Available at: Chick, Anne & Micklethwaite, Paul, Chapter 1: Design is to Design a Design to Produce a Design, in Design for Sustainable Change: How Design and Designers Can Drive the Sustainability Agenda. Switzerland: Ava Pub. Margolin, Victor, Design for a Sustainable World, Design Issues Vol. 14 no. 2, MIT Press. Brown, Tim and Wyatt, Jocelyn, Design Thinking for Social Innovation: IDEO. Wed 27 Jan Introduction to Sustainability and Design Heleen de Goey, Designer and Researcher at Sweria, Göteborg Buchanan, Richard, Wicked Problems in Design Thinking, Design Issues Vol. 8 no. 2, MIT Press. Margolin, Victor, Global Expansion or Global Equilibrium? Design and the World Situation, Design Issues Vol. 12 no. 2, MIT Press. Wed 03 Feb Humans Are Nature: Biophilic Design Hans Liljenström, Professor at Dep. of Energy and Technology at SLU, Uppsala Kellert, Stephen, Chapter 1: Dimensions, Elements, and Attributes of Biophilic Design, in Kellert, S. et al, Biophilic Design. Wiley and Sons. Heerwagen, J. H. and Gregory B., Chapter 13: Biophilia and Sensory Aesthetics, in Kellert, S. et al, Biophilic Design. Wiley and Sons. Tyson, Peter (Editor), A conversation with E.O.Wilson, NOVA, PBS Online.

3 Wed 10 Feb Seminar I: Spaceship Earth Arrives Kelley, Tom and Kelley, David, [ebook] Chapter 2: Dare - From Fear to Courage, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All. Crown Business. Wed 17 Feb Cradle to Cradle Design and the Circular Economy Stuart Pledger, Sustainable Leadership Lab, Chairman of Cradle Net Sweden McDonough, William, The Hannover Principles: Design for Sustainability, prepared for Expo 2000 The World s Fair, Hannover, Germany. (Video) The Story of Stuff, available at: (Video) Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy, available at: McDonough, William and Braungart, Michael, A World of Abundance, Interfaces Vol. 30 no. 3. May, Shannon, Ecological Modernism and the Making of a New Working Class, Ch 5 in Parr and Zaretsky New Directions In Sustainable Design. London: Routledge. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Life Cycle Assessment, Chapter 1 in Life Cycle Assessment: Principles and Practice. US EPA. Wed 24 Feb Participatory Design Camilo Calderon, PhD, Architect and Urban Planner, SLU Chick, Anne and Micklethwaite, Paul, Participatory Design: from designing for to designing with, in Design for Sustainable Change: How Design and Designers Can Drive the Sustainability Agenda. Switzerland: Ava Pub. Calderon, Camilo, Social Urbanism Integrated and participatory urban upgrading in Medellin, Colombia. Chapter in Requalifying the Built Environment: Challenges and Responses. Hou, Jeffrey, Citizen Design: Participation and Beyond. Chapter in Banerjee, and Loukaitou-Sideris Companion To Urban Design. London: Routledge. Suggested video from Lecturer: (Video) TED Talk: Dare to disagree, available at:

4 Wed 02 Mar The Artist and the Designer Paula von Seth, Artist and Editor, Moderna Museet and Beckmans College of Design Potter, Norman, Is a designer an artist? Chapter 2 in What is a designer: education and practice, London: Studio-Vista. Webpage for lecturer s project: Imago Mundi Artworks at Wed 09 Mar Biomimicry Anna Maria Orru, Architect, PhD Candidate at KTH Benyus, Janine, Echoing Nature, Chapter 1 in Biomimicry Innovation Inspired by Nature. New York: Harper Perennial Volstad, Nina Louise and Boks, Casper, On the Use of Biomimicry as a Useful Tool for the Industrial Designer, Sustainable Development Vol. 20. Walker, Alissa, Biomimicry Challenge: IDEO Taps Octopi and Flamingos to Reorganize the USGBC, FastCompany. Interview with Tim Brown and Janine Benyus, The world s best creative director - Nature. Ideas.TED.com. Wed 16 Mar Seminar II: Design for the Real World + Forming A Design Group Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek must be read before this seminar as we will use it as an input for discussion. Any other reading materials will be distributed by course coordinators before this class. Sun 20 Mar The Weekend Workshop: Human-Centered Design Under Pressure (Video) Tim Brown, A call for "design thinking", Available at (Video) ABC Nightline inside IDEO s design thinking. Available at Brown, Tim, Design Thinking. Harvard Business Review, 85 92, June IDEO, 2010, Why Do Human Centered Design? Page 4-9 from the introduction in the Human Centered Design Toolkit.

5 Wed 23 Mar Why Sustainabilty Needs Fiction: Design, Fiction and the Future Lakin Anderson, CEMUS, Uppsala University Bleeker, Julian (2009) Part 1: Design Fiction, from A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction, Near Future Laboratory. Ilstedt, Sara and Wangel, Josefin, Designing Sustainable Futures, Nordic Design Research Conference. Sterling, Bruce, Patently untrue: fleshy defibrillators and synchronised baseball are changing the future, essay by the author published in Wired. Wed 30 March Workshop II: Who, What and Why of your Design Delft Design Guide, WWWWWH: Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How, Part 2: Design Methods from the Delft Design Guide. Seelig, Tina, How Reframing A Problem Unlocks Innovation, From ingenius - A Crash course on Creativity, Harper One, adapted for Fast Company. Thackara, J. (2006). Introduction. In In the Bubble. Designing in a Complex World (pp. 2 8). Cambridge: MIT Press. IDEO. (2014). How to Frame a Design Challenge. Page 3-7 from Frame Your Own Desgn Challenge in the Human-Centered Design Design Kit. Wed 06 April Time to read the 2 nd book. Other literature for this session will be given by the Course Coordinators if required. Wed 13 April At the Heart of Art and Earth / Looking Into the Abyss (TBC) Jan von Boeckel, Artist and Associate Professor at Estonian Academy of Arts Literature for this session will be given by the Course Coordinators if required.