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Building Views on Sustainable Development in Innovation and Design Education. Merel Claes Harbin Engineering University 23 September 2010 [email protected]

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Building Views on Sustainable Development in Innovation and Design Education.

Merel Claes Harbin Engineering University

23 September 2010

[email protected]

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Background…

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The educational system aims to prepare (young) people how to cope with potential problems and how to influence their future.

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Sustainable development covers the activities to counteract the problems facing everyone’s quality of life…

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However, people who most influence un-sustainability are the professionals who graduated from higher education. (Orr, 2001)

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…Questions…

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1: Is there something wrong with the worldviews of higher education?

2: Do graduates lack vision?

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…Clarifications…

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Worldviews on Sustainability

(Claes, 2009)

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Visions on Sustainable Development

(Hopwood et al, 2005)

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Sustainability issues are complex and cannot be understood in isolation.

What is your discipline?

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(Claes, 2009)

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Inter-disciplinarity is a collaboration process beyond the traditional boundaries to solve a question.

Multi-disciplinarity does not consider relatedness of disciplines.

Trans-disciplinarity has a question that reaches across disciplines.

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1: Is there something wrong with the worldviews of higher education?

2: Do graduates lack vision?

3: If we want a different world, do we need to design or to innovate?

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Innovations are ideas that are further developed on a meaningful scale.

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Design is the link between technology and humans.

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1: Is there something wrong with the worldviews of higher education?

2: Do graduates lack vision?

3: If we want a different world, do we need to design or to innovate?

4: How can innovation and design work on sustainable development?

5: How can education contribute?

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…Discussion.

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a shared vision provides the learning organization with focus and energy…

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(Hopwood et al, 2005)

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…correlations between educational discipline and the shared vision…

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…graduates settling into inter-disciplinary and learning organizations for sustainable solutions…

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…misunderstandings, different levels of ambition, frustrations, stress…delays in innovation

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Designers are often the only ones who can speak all the jargon. (Papanek, 1985)

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Diversity offers a huge opportunity for sharing and creation of knowledge, but create challenges of creating a common understanding. (Fisher, 2005)

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Education should teach future designers the Perry scheme

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…?...

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Are design courses the cornerstone for higher education to become change agents in sustainable development?

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Thank you

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