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

The Ecodesign Centre in Cardiff is seeking to recruit an ecodesign researcher for a 6 month fixed term contract.

The successful candidate will be involved in the day-to-day implementation of research projects within the Centre, as well as providing support in liaison with clients and project partners.

 The closing date for applications is 7th Aug 2009.

Job description here (pdf).

TEPUI´s vision of creating ´Sustainability Partnerships with Nature´ is based on the belief that we have to work together with nature in order to address contemporary environmental problems we are facing.This is the reason that we want to promote Living Technologies, a mix of timeless biological processes and current innovations inspired by nature´s technologies, as solutions to environmental repair and restoration.

TEPUI has co-developed with IT Carlow and the Design Ireland Skillnet a certificate in Sustainable Design. This module is proposed as an ECTS 10 credit Level 9 module.

It is a 15-week course starting mid October, and likely students on this programme would typically be designers, design managers, marketing managers and other business managers with responsibility for new product development (NPD), company strategy and design.

The program consists of: