Information sheet 4 Overview
At this point, students would have identified many issues in both ecosystem and lifecycle. To suggest appropriate design solutions, can we look into our own lives? Some of our cultures have evolved from old traditions and practices, that was built on the foundations of coexisting with n ature. We can take forward many of these principles, use it in creating products and systems, along with new scientific technologies that can augment our efforts
Summary of main ideas and topics
The big question
Are there strategies to sustainability that we can see in our daily lives?
How can usage of sustainable technology help with sustainable design?
Why do grassroots innovations tend to be sustainable?
Other guiding question Can an entire culture be sustainable? Examples of sustainable cultures Common features of sustainable cultures Sustainability strategies Sustainable technologies Grassroot innovations
Session specific learning objective List sustainable design strategies to be followed while designing products, with examples from their own lives. Describe the various kinds of sustainable technologies and provide an example for their application Elaborate what is meant by grassroot level innovation and explain why grassroot inventors tend to create sustainable solutions Find sustainability solutions inspired by their own context and implement them in the redesign of the product
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