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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR ‘PODS’

360o – Charting New Territory in Sustainable Design Education. September 19th, 20th and 21st in London and Brighton.

A conference aimed at international design and architecture educators engaged in sustainable design education; practitioners interested in higher education and continuing professional development (CPD) in sustainable design, and students of design.

360o is convened by DEEDS (Design Education for Sustainability), an international, multi-partner, EU-funded project that aims to integrate sustainability into mainstream design education and practice, and organised and hosted by the Faculty of Arts & Architecture at the University of Brighton.

As part of DEEDS’ ongoing work, 360o aims to track a range of approaches, experiments and results in sustainable design teaching across Europe and beyond, by bringing together design educators and practitioners who are moving to the forefront of the current radical rethinking of production and consumption patterns from the standpoint of sustainability – whether defined as systematic, green, community-oriented, ethical, environmental, or simply “better” design. We ask: where does design education stand in relation to sustainability?

Can design education be a positive change agent, or does it merely follow practice?

• Does it have the power and means to make the tables turn, in radical, inspirational and efficacious ways?
• What are the mindsets, methods and materials that will give rise to a new culture in design education and practice?
• What are the drivers and gains of breaking new ground in sustainable design education?
  

360o offers three days of exciting events and opportunities to share and exchange ideas, knowledge and experiences in sustainable design education and practice:

19th September: 360o @ 100% Design / 100% Sustainable?, Earls Court, London, UK
Workshops, presentations and exhibition visit at the ‘100% Sustainable?’ stand at 100% Design

20th September: 360o @ University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
A one-day academic conference in Brighton, UK

21st September: 360o @ Large
Tour of local eco-architecture sites around Brighton, UK

Speakers include: Anne-Marie Willis, design educator from Sydney, Australia, who was a Founder-Director of the EcoDesign Foundation and now works with Tony Fry at Team D / E / S; Alastair Fuad-Luke, author of the Eco-Design Handbook (Thames & Hudson); Karen Blincoe, Director, Schumacher College, Devon; William Wong, Clore Leadership Programme Fellow, Royal Society of Arts & Manufacture (RSA); Susannah Hagan, author, Taking Shape: A New Contract Between Architecture and Nature (Architectural Press) and Head of the MA Architecture: Sustainability+Design at University of East London (UEL); Jonathan Crinion, Jonathan Crinion Associates; Jonathan Chapman, co-director of the Inheritable Futures Laboratory, If:Lab; Anne Chick, author and Director of the Sustainable Design Research Centre, Kingston University, and Rob Holdway, Director, Giraffe Innovation, currently working with L’Oreal, Sainsbury’s and British Airways.

Tour destinations include: Woodland Enterprise Centre, Flimwell, East Sussex; the Weald and Downland Museum, West Sussex, and the Earthship, Brighton

CALL FOR ‘PODS’

As part of the conference, we call on educators and practitioners to contribute to the ‘Podscape’, a web-based platform to share Teaching & Learning resources (‘pods’) for sustainable design, piloted by DEEDS. Submitted Pods will be presented, displayed and discussed at the conference, and become part of the emerging body of knowledge and resources in sustainable design education.

Pods may address one or more of the following themes:

• Pedagogic research, theories, approaches and experiments in sustainable design education
• Practical implementation of sustainability design education (e.g. project work, case studies, best practice, partnership with industry)
• Political, institutional and philosophical aspects of sustainable design education
  

Pod abstracts: 300 word descriptions of a Pod, or completed Pod form (downloadable here). Email to t.c.ainsworth@bsms.ac.uk by 1st Sept.

CONFERENCE FEES:

(Includes registration to 100% Design and VIP lounge, one-day conference at University of Brighton and optional tour on Sunday 21st September). By 15th August: £80 Conference fee (after 15th August): £120

Click here for the delegate form.

For those travelling from overseas, a small number of bursaries will be available for delegates without institutional funding, to help cover travel expenses and accommodation. Accommodation will be advised on booking.  

Conference contacts:

Tom Ainsworth, School of Architecture and Design & DEEDS Project  t.c.ainsworth@bsms.ac.uk

Karin Jaschke, School of Architecture and Design & DEEDS Project    K.Jaschke@brighton.ac.uk

Jo Moulds, DEEDS Project and Environmental Marketing & PR    
jo@jomoulds.co.uk