Sustainable Design - Objectives

Fundamental to sustainable design is the principle that designers should create new designs that can be supported indefinitely in terms of their economic, social and ecological impact on the well-being of humans.

You will explore sustainable design opportunities and look at how designers identify design opportunities without working from a brief provided by stakeholders. You will explore how stakeholders are encouraged to accept a designed solution they did not realise they needed prior to its development. You will see how designers influence and are influenced by sustainability and identify and investigate opportunities to redesign products, services or environments to improve their sustainability.

You will use a redesigning approach to develop ideas and design concepts in response to opportunities you identify. This includes applying circular design methods to improve the sustainability of your designs. You will communicate the sustainable attributes of design concepts to stakeholders and the opportunities that they represent.

You will learn to:

	describe the features that define redesign problems and design criteria.
	represent ideas, design concepts and sustainability information using schematic sketching and ideation sketching and/or low-fidelity prototyping in the explore and develop phases.
	analyse redesign opportunities using data about existing designed solutions and sustainability information.
	devise ideas using divergent thinking strategies and circular design methods in response to redesign problems in the develop phase.
	synthesise ideas and sustainability information to propose sustainable design concepts in the develop phase.
	evaluate ideas the strengths, limitations and implications of ideas and design concepts against design criteria to make refinements.
	make decisions about and use visual, written and spoken communication for stakeholders.
The objectives correspond to the Design Process model we have been using throughout this course.