Course Outline & Schedule
Class begins the week of May 13
- Week 1: Introduction + Context for Sustainability: What is sustainable design and a brief historical context of human development and long-term thinking
- Week 2: Environmental Literacy: Basic review of Air, Water, Earth, Energy, Life, Climate Change, and the Built Environment’s Role
- Week 3: Motivations for Sustainability: Define sustainability values and examine Cognitive Empathy as the way forward.
- Week 4: Integral Sustainable Design: Synthesize sustainability values into holistic frameworks for sustainable design
- Week 5: Bio-inspired Design: Identify emerging sustainable design influences of Biophilia and Biomimicry in sustainable design
- Week 6: Resilience + Adaptability: Identify emerging sustainable design influences of resilience and adaptation in sustainable design
- Week 7: Health + Wellbeing: Identify emerging sustainable design influences of health and well-being in sustainable design
- Week 8: Integrative Design: Discover integrative design practices that are influencing and promoting collaborative work environments and change management strategies
- Week 9: Global + Urban Scale Sustainable Design: Identify strategies for applying sustainable design principles at the global + urban scales
- Week 10: Site + Building Scale Sustainable Design: Identify strategies for applying sustainable design principles at the site + building scales
- Week 11: Human Scale Sustainable Design + How to be a agent for change: Identify strategies for applying sustainable design principles at the human scale + how to make an impact in your sphere of influence
- Week 12: Final Project Due
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