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Course syllabus / DBA24A – Design practice, Sustainability & Ethics

 
In this course, emphasis will be put on how you as a becoming designer approach and navigate the complex concepts of sustainability and ethics. You will further develop critical, analytical, and artistic approaches to the subject and the profession of design. You will also meet active practitioners and researchers within the design field.
 
Theoretical learnings from the course ”The lives of objects” will be contextualized and you will process issues in an artistic conceptual practice. Through three modules you will activate your own engagement to develop a design practice that responds to the central concepts of sustainability and ethics. And explore how we can fulfill our fundamental needs via inner methods through design, and how our design can be created in symbiosis with nature.  
 

The first week of the course, also the first module (w. 8, 20–24 Feb) will be mostly individual studies, no lectures since all teachers have planning week. But, we will meet Monday 20th Feb 15:30–20:00 in Stora hörsalen 338. We will have a brief intro to the course and kick-off your processes by watching a movie together. This movie and the below literature will be starting point for your individual studies for the rest of the first week. The other two modules in the course will be built on the knowledge you gain in this first week.

The book by Ann Thorpe is assigned during this week and its bibliography is below. The book can be found in both English and Swedish. We recommend that you invest in buying this book for your home library (you can get both languages via an ebook pretty easily it seems, e.g. 169 kr for the Swedish version). Yet, also, the library has copies in both hardcopy and Ebook (the library has many copies of the English Ebook for instance). Here is a quick link to the GU Library catalog with all 3 versions viewable.

Bibliography:
Thorpe, A. & Marianne Wijkmark, (2008), Design för hållbar utveckling : ekologi, ekonomi, kultur. Raster. Stockholm.

Thorpe, A., (2007), The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability. Island Press. Washington DC..

 

Next time we'll meet is Monday 27th Feb 10:00–16:30. 

You will find the schedule in Timedit for now, but when the course starts we will use Canvas calendar.

 

 

Kursplan / Course plan 

Se kursplan på svenska här.

See course plan in English here.

 

Litteraturlista / Literature

Thorpe, A. & Marianne Wijkmark, (2008), Design för hållbar utveckling : ekologi, ekonomi, kultur. Raster. Stockholm.

Thorpe, A., (2007), The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability. Island Press. Washington DC.

 

Annan litteratur och artiklar kommer delas ut inför seminarium inom kursen.

Other literature will be handed out for embedded seminars, later part of the course.

 

Studentportalen

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Registrera dig på dina kurser

För att komma åt allt kursmaterial i Canvas behöver du vara registrerad. Detta gör du tidigast en vecka innan kursstart i Ladoktjänster. 

Vid frågor om din registrering och dina studier, vänligen kontakta utbildningsadministrationen: admission@hdk-valand.gu.se. 

Schema

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Tänk på att kursens schema är preliminärt fram till två veckor innan kursstart. 

Sen under kursen kommer vi använda Canvaskalendern.

When the course have started we will use the Canvas calendar.

 

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