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  • Tehtävät

    Course work (as well as evaluation) consists of session-related independent assignments (30% of grade evaluation), group work on conceptual design (30%), and a personal learning diary (40%) which needs to cover the topics assigned in the course schedule. The assignments are listed below and in the course schedule.


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      Calculate carbon footprint with SITRA's lifestyle calculator (before session 2) Verkko-osoite

      • Test your own carbon footprint with SITRA's lifestyle calculator at https://lifestyletest.sitra.fi/
      • You do not need to submit anything else than the your score at the  at https://flinga.fi/s/FQH5S2W . The whiteboard prompts also a question of whether you think your footprint is big or small. Please use this option to think that how do and can we think of entitlement and a fair share of carbon emission budget.
      • DL 21.4. 9:00

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      Find labels and product standards for sustainability (before session 3) Tehtävä
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      • Search for and select two labels for sustainability,  preferably from different areas / of different type.
      • Find out who has created and issues the label, and what criteria it has.
      • Upload as a single file with two label images / logos and the explanation texts to MyCourses by 26.4. at 09:00.


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      Sustainability - meanings and messages (before session 4) Tehtävä
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      Products and services communicate sustainability with different means. Labels and product standards are formalized and often quantified 'proofs' of sustainability. However, visual and textual means can also indicate sustainability in less formalized ways. For this exercise you should search for representations of sustainability that are interesting, surprising, unconventional and perhaps also controversial.

      Semiotics is a study of meanings, language and communication. You can find inspiration for this exercise from reading Susan Vihma's text in the reading list. She e.g. distinguishes iconic, indexical and symbolic meanings attached to products.  

      Exercise: Select one product/service that communicates sustainability effectively, interestingly or in a contraversial way. Submit a single file by 29.4. with needed images and short paragraph (appr 200words)  of what you think is going on in terms of communication and meanings related to sustainability.


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      Assessment and redesign exercise (sessions 5-7) Tehtävä
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      Part 1 (session 5): Select a topic for the exercise and begin research on its sustainability impacts

      • Pick a topic for exercise (product/material/service-system; See session 5 slides)
      • Identify main materials, processes, stakeholders
      • Identify major sustainability issues and impacts along the life phases

      Part 2 (session 6): Redesign ideation – suggest improvements

      • Redesign your focus product/system/material use
      • Reflect on improvements (materials, processes, system)

      Produce a poster (for session 7): Communicate sustainability improvements

      • Produce a poster (PDF) to communicate results, and upload here: Landscape layout with images and text, existing case on left, redesign on right (see session 6 slides for example). Deadline on Tuesday 10.5. at 8 am.
      • Prepare and present a 3-4 min pitch on session 7 (10.5.), introducing the selected topic and itse justifications, main sustainability concerns, and suggested redesign with sustainability improvements.
      NOTE: Assignment box reopened for late submissions!

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      Groupwork - conceptual design case:

      The course includes a small conceptual design case around novel or recycled materials, focusing on the sustainability aspects. Case work is conducted during sessions 8-10. Groups and topic will be assigned on 12.5.

      • Groups perform research on selected material
      • Groups produce a design concept idea with selected material/context
      • Interim presentation on 24.5.in zoom
      • Final presentations on Tuesday 31st May


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      Groupwork interim presentations 24th May in zoom Tehtävä

      The aim of the interim presentation is to share your project idea and work-in-progress with course tutors, and to receive feedback to develop it further. 

      As a group, prepare a presentation (pdf, pp, max. size 50MB) including max. 5 slides and download it here by Monday 23rd 8 pm.  

      Name your file: group number_project name

      The session will be in zoom 9.15 -12. Each group will have 5 min to explain their project (max. 5 slides) and 5 min to get some feedback from tutors and peers. Book your time slot.


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      Solutions for Nontox project - concept presentations on 31st of May Tehtävä

      The task is to develop a design, service or communication concept to support recycling of waste streams researched in Nontox project. Groups need to prepare a presentation of their design concept (pp, pdf), and present it (7 min. presentation + 5 min. discussion / group) in the joint event at the campus.

      Name your file: group number_project name_final
      Upload your presentation here by Monday       30th May evening 8 pm.

      Presentation has to include: Name of the concept, team members, selected waste stream, selected approach, target group/users, arguments for the sustainability, proposed solution(s). Don't include too much text, and keep your message clear. And the presentation time is strict. You are supposed to follow the whole session.

      Schedule:

      9:15 Team 10 

      9:28 Team 1

      9:40 Team 2 

      9:53 Team 3 

      Short break

      10:15 Team 4 

      10:28Team 5

      10:40Team 6 

      10:53 Team 7 

      Short break

      11:15 Team 8

      11:28 Team 9

      11:40 Team 11

      Short wrap-up

      12 The course ends



      Evaluation: clarity (communication), idea and informativeness (concept development), argumentation (sustainability).


    • Learning diary:

      The assignments also include a personal learning diary, that consists of roughly week-based reflections that are each around one page long texts plus possible images and sketch . Altogether the learning diary should be 5-7 pages in length. It will be submitted at the end of the course, but each entry should be made on weekly basis.


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      Writing your learning diary Tehtävä
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      Learning diary is an edited compilation of texts (Word or PDF) that revisit topics that are discussed during sessions, or related to exercises and groupwork. It consists of several roughly one-page long entries, and it should altogether be about 5-7 pages, or around 2000-3000 words in length.

      In your learning diary, go through the weekly topics, and revisit at least the following:

      • What level in sustainable design action is most important? How are levels connected? [week 1]
      • Pick a product/service that communicates sustainability interestingly: reflect what/how and how effectively does it communicate. [week 2]
      • How comprehensive is the understanding on sustainability challenges? Reflect on controversies and contradictions from a design perspective. [week 3]
      • Reflect on your assessment and redesign exercise (sessions 5-7). [week 4]
      • Reflect on the process and results of your groupwork (sessions 8-10). [weeks 5-7]
      • You can also add reflection and ideas of development and future topics for the course as a whole.

      Upload by the end of the course. Official deadline is June 6th.


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