Sustainable Product Design Online Short Course

How do you create physical products and businesses that are more sustainable? How do you go beyond simply working with sustainable materials, to make more fundamental changes to your design processes and methodologies? How can you design products that fit into larger sustainable systems? These are some of the questions we will explore in this four-week online course.

Topics Covered

• Sustainability overview
• Design for longevity
• Designing products with purpose
• Research and ethnographic studies
• Design for systems
• Designing products as part of a service
• Sketching out business models
• Design for disassembly
• Maintenance and fixing products
• Products to re-use, refurbish, recycle
• Design interventions for sustainability