Sustainability in practice
Coursera training, MOOC (2015). Given online by The School of Design (PennDesign) of the University of Pennsylvania (US), this training provides an introduction to the ideas and practices that people are using to understand and change connections, including connections across time, that create systems that are greater than the simple sums of their parts, with consequences that are often unexpected. The objective is to pursue more sustainable processes and communities.
Week 1: Connections
Main topics:
- Climate change;
- Brundtland Report;
- Systems thinking;
- Design thinking;
- Sketching.
Week 2: Allocation
Main topics:
- Efficiency;
- Natural capital;
- Externality;
- Lifecycle accounting.
Week 3: Resilience
Main topics:
- Climate change;
- Adaptability, transformability and diversity;
- Collaboration.
Week 4: Emergence
Main topics:
- Complex systems;
- Informal settlements;
- Computational models;
- Innovation.
Week 5: Jurisdiction
Main topics:
- Carbon Tracker;
- Confirmation bias;
- Product-service system.
Week 6: Performance
Main topics:
- Benchmarking;
- Energy efficiency;
- Awareness raising;
- Big data.
Week 7: Disruption
Main topics:
- Disruptive innovation;
- Integrated design;
- Triple bottom line.
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