COURSE DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION
| Course Name | Code | Semester | T+A+L (hour/week) | Type (C / O) | Local Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sustainability in Industrial Design | IND 361 | Fall | 03+00+00 | Elective | 3 | 5 |
| Academic Unit: | Industrial Product Design |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Prerequisites: | None |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Course Unit: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | - - |
| Course Objectives: | The objective of this course is to draw the student’s attention to environmental issues that are directly related to industrial production and products. As one of the most important contemporary issues today, the course aims at investigating the designers’ role within the sustainable design processes and the eco-design projects. The course aims at structuring a theoretical and practical background for the students, introducing economical, social and ecological sustainability principles to be merged with design methodologies as well as fostering an ecologically sensitive designer identity. |
| Course Contents: | Sustainability in design covers the practice of designing physical objects with the principles of economic, social, and ecological sustainability in mind. The course involves reading material, discussion topics and assignments on the major issues of economical, social and ecological sustainability. The course on one hand introduces information on the transformation of technical and theoretical issues on new product development focusing on ecological systems. On the other hand conducts analytical and conceptual readings on project based design approaches from the design literature of the last decade. The students will have to chance to watch documentaries on the contemporary design issues related to eco-sustainability, have discussions in the class and evaluate the role of design on the issue throughout the analysis of strategic projects, approaches and conceptual solutions which will be presented throughout the course as well as in depth research on required eco-design topics. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: | • Lectures, supported by slides • Film screening • Readings • Invited lecturers (max. 3) • Every student will submit a research paper as a midterm exam via blackboard learning unit. The topic and the context will be drawn by the instructor but each student will have his own focal point for his own research. • A final exam will be made at the end of the semester covering all the issues. Students are assigned with readings, site observations and field trip due to the subject of the following week and are expected to be prepared for in-class discussions and critical questions on the material. |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATIONS
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to the course: description of the course, the frame, expectations and suggestions. | |
| 2 | Ecology and the earth | Documentary Film Screening: ‘Home’ |
| 3 | The issue of global warming and its consequences | Documentary Film Screening: ‘An inconvenient truth’ |
| 4 | Earth, ecology and the consumption cycle | Documentary Film Screening: ‘The story of stuff’ |
| 5 | Introduction and the discussion of the concepts ‘Planned Obsolescence’ and ‘Perceived Obsolescence’ | Announcement of the subject, context and the format of the research paper to be submitted as mid-term exam. |
| 6 | The shift to the post-industrial society: introduction and discussion of the terms sustainability, eco-design, green industry etc. | Evaluation of the subject proposal for the mid-term research paper. |
| 7 | Ecology of products | Research: ecology and sustainability criteria for the design competitions |
| 8 | LCA: Life Cycle Assessment | |
| 9 | Mid-term exam: eco-friendly production processes and material selection | Submission of the mid-term research paper via blackboard learning unit |
| 10 | Service design and its reflections on the concepts of ‘im-materialization’ and ‘dematerialization’ | |
| 11 | Innovation inspired from nature: ‘Biomimicry’ | Talk by Janine Benyus: Biomimicry in action |
| 12 | Eco-design case studies #1: Design for the other 90% | |
| 13 | Eco-design case studies #2: carbon foot print in the automotive industry: Renault Z.E. | Discussions on the Kyoto protocol |
| 14 | Eco-design case studies #3. Up-cycling and Freitag |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING
| Design for the other 90%. New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 2007 Giudice, Fabio. 2006. Product design for the environment: a life cycle approach. Boca Raton : CRC/Taylor & Francis. Lewis, Helen. 2001. Design environment: a global guide to designing greener goods. Sheffield: Greenleaf. Manzini, Ezio, Walker, Stuart and Wylant, Barry (Eds.). 2008. Enabling solutions for sustainable living: a workshop. Calgary: University of Calgary Press. |
OTHER COURSE RESOURCES
| Margolin, Victor. 1998. Design for a Sustainable World. Design Issues: Volume 14, Number 2 Summer 1998 Papanek, Victor J. 1995. The green imperative: natural design for the real world. New York: Thames and Hudson. Thorpe, Ann. 2007. The designer's atlas of sustainability. Washington, DC: Island Pres. Vezzoli, Carlo. 2008. Design for environmental sustainability. London: Springer. Benyus, Janine M. 2002. Biomimicry : innovation inspired by nature. New York : Perennial. UN Department for Sustainable Living http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/index.shtml Sustainable Everyday http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/SEPhome/home.html#scenarios IDSA http://www.idsa.org/whatsnew/sections/ecosection/index.html Facing the Future http://www.facingthefuture.org/ |
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
| Semester Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance / Participation | 1 | 5 |
| Extra-Class Activities (reading, individual study etc.) | 5 | 5 |
| Midterms / Oral Exams / Quizes | 1 | 40 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total: | 8 | 100 |
WORKLOAD
| Events | Count | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload (hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Homework Assigments | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| Extra-Class Activities (reading,individiual work, etc.) | 6 | 4 | 24 |
| Midterms / Oral Exams / Quizes | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 24 | 24 |
| Total Workload (hour): | 125 | ||
1 ECTS = 25 Hours Workload
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
| # | PQ1 | PQ2 | PQ3 | PQ4 | PQ5 | PQ6 | PQ7 | PQ8 | PQ9 | PQ10 | PQ11 |
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Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High