Skillnet in Sustainable Design Practice for design professionals

Curriculum Co-design workshop for Skillsnet in Sustainable Design Pratctice for Design Professionals.


As you may know Design Ireland Skillsnet has secured funding to run a Skillsnet in Sustainable Design Practice for Design Professionals.

The working group developing the course invites you to participate in a half day workshop at the Institute of Technology Carlow on the morning of Tuesday 15th April to develop the curriculum.
The course is intended to be multidisciplinary in nature but we would also seek to give specific workshops that are discipline specific and so we are keen to get the opinion of practicing design professionals with respect to what they would like to see in the course.

The workshop will be facilitated by Alastair Fuad Luke, Designer, Facilitator, Author and Maker who has a long standing expertise in the field of sustainable design.

The intention is that this course will be a fully accredited CPD (Continued Professional Development) course under the NFQ (National Framework for Qualifications. The course is being co-ordinated by IT Carlow, Design Ireland and Cultivate Living and Learning Center.

We are keen to have involvement from all design disciplines as sustainable design practice is both current and topical for all and offers significant opportunity to those designers who are well versed in its application.

Final Details on the workshop will be posted in due course.




For further details and to be involved in the workshop please contact:

Deirdre Doherty in Design Ireland info@designireland.ie
or
Adam de Eyto in IT Carlow deeytoa@itcarlow.ie

To act or not to act?

I came across this very simplified but effective theory on how to line up your thoughts (in this case on climate change) but it could be used for many of the difficult decisions we face as designers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDsIFspVzfI
Adam

Cradle to Cradle on You Tube

There is a 20 minute clip of William Mc Donnagh the Co-Author of Cradle to Cradle on You Tube at the moment. Its well worth the look if you have time to spare.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoRjz8iTVoo

The Book Cradle to Cradle is also a must read for anyone serious about Sustainable design Thinking.(Amazon do it)

We are starting to look at ideas for Reform 08 so if anyone has ideas please get in touch, speakers,venues workshops etc.

Also if any of you are good at building websites we need a hand to get the 02ireland sustainable design network off the ground. volunteers would be welcomed with open arms.
Just give Adam a shout

Hope all are keeping the faith!

Sustainable design course UK: Designing for sustainability: Systems, ethics and beauty

A one, two or three week course at Schumacher College
February 4 - 22, 2008

This course will look at how nature's design process can influence human-made design, what constitutes form and function, how beauty relates to sustainable design and how co-design processes can lead to innovative solutions. The final week will provide an introduction to cradle-to-cradle design, a methodology for intelligent product design which takes into account
the entire life-cycle of the product.

EZIO MANZINI is Professor of Industrial Design at Milan Polytechnic and co-author of Sustainable Everyday: Scenarios of Urban Life.
ALASTAIR FUAD-LUKE is a facilitator, lecturer, and author of The Eco-Design Handbook, with a special interest in "slow design".
MICHAEL BRAUNGART is a chemist and founder of the Environmental Protection
Encouragement Agency (EPEA) in Hamburg.

For more information check out…
http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/designing-for-sustainability-systems-ethics-and-beauty