Sustainable Product Design Education: Current Practice

Watkins, Matthew; Casamayor, Jose L.; Ramirez, Mariano; Moreno, Mariale; Faludi, Jeremy; Pigosso, Daniela Cristina Antelmi

doi:10.1016/j.sheji.2021.11.003

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“…A sustainable product design course will ask its students to design products, sustainably. Watkins et al discuss such attempts to introduce sustainability to product design courses [11]. The MA Sustainable Design course focuses on the values that can underpin the pursuit of sustainability.…”

Section: Sustainability Derives From Mindsets and Worldviews Not Just...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Design Masters: Increasing the Sustainability Literacy of Designers

Micklethwaite

2022

Sustainability

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This paper examines student learning in the Master of Arts in Sustainable Design course at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London. It considers what designers learn, how they learn and where they learn, in a postgraduate course that seeks to enable them to direct their practice towards sustainability by increasing their sustainability literacy. The paper reviews the learning experiences of students, and the curriculum structures and approaches used to serve those experiences. The story of the course is told here by the course leader of ten years, using student outputs to illustrate the argument made for a sustainable design pedagogy. The key principles of this pedagogy are (1) sustainability is a social, not just an environmental, agenda; (2) sustainability presents us with ‘wicked problems’, which have no right or wrong answers; (3) sustainability-directed design practice arises from the sustainability literacy of the designer; (4) sustainability derives from mindsets and worldviews, not just methods and materials; and (5) sustainability is an emergent property of systems, not a quality of products. This combination has generated a distinctive model of postgraduate sustainable design education, which seeks to equip students with a ‘mastery’ of how to put into practice their own visions of sustainable design.

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Section: Sustainability Derives From Mindsets and Worldviews Not Just...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Design Masters: Increasing the Sustainability Literacy of Designers

Micklethwaite

2022

Sustainability

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“…This product development is also improving in parallel with new technologies nowadays [ 23 ]. However, global production will continue wreaking havoc on society and the environment if these tendencies are not promptly addressed [ 24 ]. Hence, in the long run, packaging designers should consider designs that are sustainable and environmentally friendly to reduce pollution, prioritize environmental protection in design, and provide a design concept that adheres to ecological ethics [ 23 ].…”

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Sustainable Packaging Design for Molded Expanded Polystyrene Cushion

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A molded expanded polystyrene (EPS) cushion is a flexible, closed-cell foam that can be molded to fit any packing application and is effective at absorbing shock. However, the packaging waste of EPS cushions causes pollution to landfills and the environment. Despite being known to cause pollution, this sustainable packaging actually has the potential to reduce this environmental pollution because of its reusability. Therefore, the objective of this study is to identify the accurate design parameter that can be emphasized in producing a sustainable design of EPS cushion packaging. An experimental method of drop testing and design simulation analysis was conducted. The effectiveness of the design parameters was also verified. Based on the results, there are four main elements that necessitate careful consideration: rib positioning, EPS cushion thickness, package layout, and packing size. These parameter findings make a significant contribution to sustainable design, where these elements were integrated directly to reduce and reuse packaging material. Thus, it has been concluded that 48 percent of the development cost of the cushion was decreased, 25 percent of mold modification time was significantly saved, and 27 percent of carbon dioxide (CO₂) reduction was identified. The findings also aided in the development of productive packaging design, in which these design elements were beneficial to reduce environmental impact. These findings had a significant impact on the manufacturing industry in terms of the economics and time of the molded expanded polystyrene packaging development.

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“…The exponential growth of the global economy and production has had an irreparable social and environmental impact [1,2]. Indeed, sustainability is considered one of the greatest challenges for humanity in this century [3,4].…”

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“…However, such skills cannot simply be taught by introducing new modules or adding content to a pre-existing curriculum, but they must be embedded throughout the degree programme [12]. A significant barrier to the adoption of a holistic approach toward sustainability is the use of modular curricula and the consequent tendency for students to compartmentalize knowledge and skills, failing to apply these outside of the context in which they were introduced [2,13]. This raises an interesting question: to what extent can ESD be integrated into the curriculum outside of specific ESD modules.…”

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Embedding Sustainability in the Engineering Curriculum: A Complimentary Approach to Performance Engineering and Sustainable Design

Butt¹,

Causton²,

Watkins³

2022

DS 117: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2022), London S

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To address the UN Sustainable Development Goals, future engineers must effectively integrate sustainability into multiple areas of engineering throughout the lifecycle encompassing the design of products, development for manufacturing and end of life considerations. The impact of the quality of manufactured goods on product performance and sustainability is well documented. Furthermore, statistical methods commonly used to monitor and control product quality may be adapted to evaluate environmental performance. This paper details how sustainability is considered within the curriculum of two 3 rd year modules of the Engineering courses at Nottingham Trent University, UK. The modules presented here are Performance Engineering and Sustainability in Engineering Design. Through a systematic analysis of the content, the authors have identified synergies in approaches to sustainability in the modules. It is anticipated that, through careful scaffolding and reinforcement of learning, budding engineers will be encouraged to adopt a holistic approach, in which sustainability is embedded throughout their practice.

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Sustainable Product Design Education: Current Practice

Cited by 22 publications

References 10 publications

Sustainable Design Masters: Increasing the Sustainability Literacy of Designers

Sustainable Design Masters: Increasing the Sustainability Literacy of Designers

Sustainable Packaging Design for Molded Expanded Polystyrene Cushion

Embedding Sustainability in the Engineering Curriculum: A Complimentary Approach to Performance Engineering and Sustainable Design

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