Designer's Atlas of Sustainability, Ann Thorpe
This guide is set to help university educators deliver education in sustainable design. The author treats sustainable design in its broadest sense encompassing social, environmental, economic and well-being ideas. The guide has been produced to cater to a range of design disciplines, including fashion. It contains 28 design briefs and exercises, and more than 20 additional resources and tips (such as ideas for films, essay topics and field trips).
Activities include quizzes, estimation, hands-on experiment, debate and role play, among others. It can be downloaded for free from the Designer's Atlas website.
Themes include:
• biomimicry
• ethical and fair trade issues
• slow design
• happiness
• economics
• new models of practice that enable design activism
The guide is suitable for both under-graduate and graduate teaching and also offers valuable information on setting up sustainable design programs, as well as other resources on teaching sustainable design. The publication is edited by Ann Thorpe who is a teaching fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London and conducts research at the Open University on design activism . She also led an undergraduate product design program focused on sustainability.
Ann Thorpe, (July 2007), Designer's Atlas of Sustainability, 57 pages.
| 1. Level | Pre-16, FE, UG, PG |
| 2. Pre-requisite knowledge required by educators | C. Some knowledge of discipline required.
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| 3. Pre-requisite knowledge required by students | A. No background knowledge required.
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| 4. Number of students | Any number |
| 5. Length of time required | Adjustable |
| 6. Type of activity | Individual work, Group work, Student presentations, Interactive activities, Ideas for projects, assignments and briefs, Discussion and debate, Practical |
| 7. Discipline | Design, Interactive |
| 8. Topics covered | All |
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