The course aiming at the graduate level will help graduate students:
- have a better understanding of both systems thinking and design-based approaches (e.g. Social Innovation, Integrated Scales, Enduring Design, Half-way design and Personalization, Open Design, Biomimicry, etc.).
- provide a medium for critical discussion and creative reflection on these approaches.
- develop and assess current design considerations for sustainability
- blending scales of design and production;
- aesthetically adaptable and tailored to local/regional materials and manufacturing capabilities for post-use services at the local batch-production scale such as repair, re-use, upgrade;
- transparency and authenticity through facilitating user comprehension and engagement;
- continuously evolving products generating variety and diversity.