NEW THIS TERM
The Role of the Designer in a Sustainable World
X411.7 (2 semester units in Architecture)
Throughout the last two centuries, designers have pioneered new modes of production that sparked massive sociocultural change. How can today's designers lead the sustainability revolution? With case studies and visiting practitioners, we'll examine the political and economic obstacles to implementing cradle-to-cradle production and articulate a vision for social responsibility in the design profession. We'll also examine how sustainability is influencing the institutions and practices of contemporary design, focusing on leadership opportunities available to students.
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Mon. June 23, San Francisco
JESSICA CAREW KRAFT, M.A., M.Res., is a writer, designer, and activist focusing on sustainable lifestyle change. She has taught cultural studies and design history at Central Saint Martins Academy of Art and Design, Parsons the New School for Design, and art history at the City University of New York. An anthropologist by training, she has written for several contemporary art and lifestyle magazines and has worked with architects and planners on sustainable development projects in the Middle East and in Latin America.
- 10 meetings
- June 23 to Aug. 25: Mon., 6:30-9:30 pm
- San Francisco: Room 216, South of Market Center, 95 Third St.
- $600 (EDP 014142)
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Textbook(s) for this course:
Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility
Author: Steven Heller
Publisher: Allworth Press
Publication Year: 2003
ISBN: 1581152655
AND
The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture
Author: Victor Papanek
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500278466
Courses begin every month. A new edition of our catalog is published
three times a year in early April, July and December.