Teaching climate, etc

UM-Flint’s innovative program in Climate Design (BA, minor, or certificate*) prepares students to be trailblazers in this emerging field. The program takes a multidisciplinary approach, merging art & design, climate science, social science, and urban planning. Utilizing systems thinking and creative problem solving, students are prepared to become professionals in the areas of climate technology, sustainable design, environmental justice, and urban planning, as entrepreneurs, designers, and scholars.

IDEO introduces design thinking, how it came to be, how it is being used, and steps and tools for mastering it.

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What is Sustainable Graphic Design? In Flourishing, John Ehrenfeld writes that “The key to doing something about sustainability is that you first have to say what it is that you want to sustain.” So, to define sustainable graphic design then we first must define what it is we are sustaining. Sustainable graphic design is design in service of what you want to sustain. Ehrenfeld wants to sustain “that all humans and other life should flourish.” Bruce Mau described "Massive Change" similarly: “Our project is the welfare of all life.” Sustainable graphic design is then perhaps best defined as “graphic design in support of all life flourishing.” Sustainable Graphic Design is thus very different than status quo design. "All life flourishing" is not the traditional goal of business, culture, and design. Sustainable graphic design doesn’t solely rely on better materials or more socially conscious manufacturing. If sustainable graphic design is different than regular design, it requires different ways of thinking and making. Sustainable graphic design should also potentially carry with it different styles/aesthetics/outcomes. (All design is ideological, how some looks reflects what ideologies it promotes, etc.)