By: Doreen Donovan (University of South Australia)
Session type: Multiple sessions, Undergraduate level, Small size
Topics:
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Communication design
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Biodiversity
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Personal consumption
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Learning from practitioners
Introduction to the teaching example:
This activity helps students to gain knowledge on how to include sustainability-related themes in design projects while considering possible responsibilities and impacts as a professional working in the design sector.
Greenpeace Asia-Pacific provides advice to students on a number of the organization's main sustainability efforts. After that, the students come up with design concepts for media pieces that promote the issues and encourage collective sustainable efforts. Students create a suite of communication materials for their sustainability action campaign, including print and social media content. The students finish their campaign collateral and complete a paper that explains their approach informed by feedback from the instructor and classmates. One student's work features in a public campaign when Greenpeace Asia-Pacific selects the best submissions.