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DESGN-6720-4: Context: Sustainability and Systems Thinking

Spring 2020

Subject: Graduate Design
Type: Seminar
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Level: Graduate

Campus: San Francisco
Course Dates: January 21, 2020 — May 08, 2020
Meetings: Tue 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 102 B
Instructor: Bob Adams

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 9/12

Description:

This course explores the related concepts of sustainability and systems thinking in a
contemporary context. Through study, discussion, and criticism of provocative and
visionary viewpoints related to design, ethics, science, and society, students will explore
the precedents, current state, and potential futures of “sustainability” as applied to the
design practice and the design of society at large.  Numerous frameworks for
sustainability will be examined, along with principles from ecology, biology, systems
thinking, and the

Pre-Requisites and Co-Requisites:

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