TEPUI, with IT Carlow, Cultivate, Design Core and the Design Ireland Skillsnet are once again offering an Irish certificate in Sustainable Design Innovation.
This module is an ECTS 10 credit Level 9 module.
Introduction:
This course offers an opportunity for practicing design professionals to "up-skill" themselves in the rapidly evolving area of Sustainable Design Practice (SDP).
Students on this programme typically come from a range of backgrounds:
Industrial and Product Designers, Architects, Landscape Architects, Materials specialists, Graphic Designers, Fashion and Textile Designers, design managers, marketing managers and other business managers with responsibility for new product development (NPD), and company strategy.
Duration:
14 weeks; Alternate Saturdays 10:00 –13:00
12 x 3 hour workshop/lectures/ mentoring sessions and independent applied research project (with remote mentoring).
Starting Date:31 October 2009
Programme
- Introduction to Sustainable Design and cross-disciplinary learning
- Designing the Designer: habits, perspectives, practice
- Biomimicry, Lifecycle Thinking , Cradle To Cradle Strategies
- Social Design, Design Activism, Design Ethics
- Development of the SD Brief and SD Strategy, Mapping Impacts, Interactions, Needs and Opportunities.
- Practical Sustainable Design Innovation Strategies
- The Big Three: Carbon, Energy and Water and their footprints.
- Materials Selection, Procurement and Supply Chains
- Environmental Design
- LCA and Assessment Tools
- Sustainable Product Service Systems
- Packaging & Waste / Incentives, Support and Environmental Legislative Considerations
- Sustainable Design for Competitive Advantage: Marketing, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Certification and Branding
- Applied Research Project
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