AIGA Design Educators Special Edition: Teaching Ecological Sustainable Design
Season 3: Episode 11
The AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC) seeks to enhance the abilities of design educators and educational institutions to prepare future designers for excellence in design practice, design theory, and design writing at the undergraduate and graduate levels while supporting the fundamental mission of AIGA.
Listen to this episode on: Spotify, Apple, Google and other places you get your podcastsMeet our Panelist and AIGA Design Educators Spotlight
Rebeca Méndez, Founder and Director of CounterForcelab and Chair of the Design Media Arts program at UCLA, works with vulnerable environments and communities in the Arctic to threatened ecologies in the eastern Pacific Ocean. In her ecological sustainable design philosophy and practice, she examines reciprocal relationships and environmental justice in a multi-species world in the midst of climate change, mass extinction, and a ravaging extractivist society.
Holly Robbins, MCAD Adjunct Faculty and partner and creative director of This Is Folly, has collaborated with AIGA/MN, GreenBlue’s Sustainable Packaging Coalition, and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design on promoting sustainability, developing design guidelines and award criteria, and advancing professional sustainable design education.
On the web
This is Folly (Holly Robbins)
Resources from the episode
MCAD Masters of Arts in Sustainable Design
New Conceptual Framework for Sustainability - Helen Foley, Joe Bogue, and Stephen Onakuse
Ways of Being Alive - Baptiste Morizot
Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Drawdown solution(s):
Episode topic tags:
education, ecological literacy, sustainable design, sustainability
Find more about how to teach climate design in your classroom at www.climatedesigners.org/edu
Music in this episode
Nature sound effect by bbc.co.uk – ©2023 BBC
Theme music by Casual Motive
Design Team
Consulting
Climate Design Assignments
At the end of each episode, we ask our guests what their ideal climate design project would be. They have four weeks with a class full of design students. We translated their response into a project brief that you can use for your class.
