LEARNING OUTCOMES
After the completion of the course, students will:
- Understand the principles of sustainability in product, service and system design;
- Be able to approach sufficiency and sustainable consumption and production with design;
- Be able to assess and argue for design solutions for sustainability.
Credits: 6
Schedule: 07.01.2025 - 13.02.2025
Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Tatu Marttila
Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):
CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):
Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):
Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English
CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD
Content
valid for whole curriculum period:
The course introduces the topic areas of design for sustainability and frameworks, including product-service-systems, service design and material circulation. It situates these design strategies in the overall landscape of escalating levels of consumption, and develops design approaches to mitigate these trends. Each topic is approached via lectures, readings and through a group work assignment that continues throughout the course.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
valid for whole curriculum period:
Course contents consist of weekly lectures, readings and related assignments. The course also includes a group exercise. To pass, the students are required to attend the lectures (80%) and perform all the assigned exercises, readings and written tasks given each week.
Assessment methods and criteria:
- Individual writing tasks 30%
- Active presence at the course platforms, activity log 20%
- Group assignments, final and intermediary reports 40%
- Peer evaluation in groups 10%
Workload
valid for whole curriculum period:
Overall workload 6 ECTS = 162 hours. Completion of the course requires 80% participation and project work in groups.
- Lectures, and class-room exercises, 36 hrs
- Project work in groups, 50 hrs
- Reading course literature and related writing tasks (learning diary), 50 hrs
- Feedback and participation outside classroom, 10 hrs
- Personal reflection 16 hrs
DETAILS
Study Material
valid for whole curriculum period:
1. Ceschin, G & Gaziulusoy, I (2019). Design for Sustainability: A Multi-level Framework from Products to Socio-technical Systems. Routledge.
2. Selected other readings
Provided in MyCourses.
Substitutes for Courses
valid for whole curriculum period:
Prerequisites
valid for whole curriculum period:
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals
9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
12 Responsible Production and Consumption
13 Climate Action
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further Information
valid for whole curriculum period:
Teaching Language: English
Teaching Period: 2024-2025 Spring III
2025-2026 Spring IIIRegistration:
Registration in Sisu. Minimum number of students 30, maximum 60.
The order of priority for admitting students:
- Creative Sustainability major students;
- Creative Sustainability minor students;
- Department of Design masters students;
- Students for whom the course is part of his/her major's or programme's alternative studies and has been scheduled in the student's PSP (HOPS) for the current academic year;
- All other master students