Session 4 & 5 | Sustainability strategies & technologies Session overview
Students 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 nature. 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.
Session-specific learning objectives 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
Preparatio Teacher must go through Information sheet 4, and is advised to visit the supplementary links given Ensure students have task books During the discussion session, students can sit with their groups and teacher can go around and meet each group and clear doubts. Teacher can also grade students during these discussions
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