Design Education for a Sustainable Future

<p>Sustainability is a powerful force that is fundamentally reshaping humanity’s relationship to the natural world and is ushering in the Age of Integration. The move from well-intentioned environmental friendliness to the higher bar of integral sustainability and regenerative design demands a new type of design professional one that is deeply collaborative ethically grounded empathically connected and technologically empowered. </p><p>As a response this book argues for a great leap forward in design education: from an individualistic and competitive model casually focused on greening; to a new approach defined by an integral consciousness shaped by the values of inclusivity and cooperation and implemented by a series of integrative behaviors including: </p><ul> <li>an ethically infused design brief</li> <li>a co-creative design process</li> <li>on-going value engineering</li> <li>pre-emptive engineering</li> <li>design validation through simulation</li> <li>on-line enabled integrated learning</li> <li>the use of well vetted rating systems. </li> </ul><p>This book contains the integral frameworks whole system change methodologies and intrinsic values that will assist professors and their students in an authentic and effective pursuit of design education for a sustainable future. </p>