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System Design For Sustainability

Prof. Sharmistha Banerjee · IIT Guwahati

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About

Design for Sustainability is a design thinking process for widening the boundaries of the objective of design so as to contribute positively to sustainable development. It encompasses four approaches: 1. Selection of resources with low environmental impact; 2. Design of products with low environmental impact; 3. Product-Service System Design for eco-efficiency; 4. Design for social equity and cohesion. This course will discuss these Design approaches, methods and tools alongwith case examples

Intended audience: Bdes (final year) and Mdes students

Prerequisites: Prefered courses but not mandatory - System Design

Lectures

Week 1: Basics - What is sustainability, sustainable development and why do we need it?

  1. Lec 1: Sustainability and Sustainable Development - Understanding Un-sustainability and need for Sustainability YouTube
  2. Lec 2: Sustainability and Sustainable Development - Definitions YouTube
  3. Lec 3: Sustainability and Sustainable Development - Pathway YouTube
  4. Lec 4: Systems Approach to Design YouTube

Week 2: Basics - Evolution of sustainability within Design

  1. Lec 1: Evolution of sustainability in design. YouTube
  2. Lec 2: Diverse Approaches to Design for Sustainability (Part A) YouTube
  3. Lec 3: Diverse Approaches to Design for Sustainability (Part B) YouTube

Week 3: Product Life Cycle Design

  1. Lec 1: Relationship between approaches to Design for Sustainability and the application context YouTube
  2. Lec 2: Product Life Cycle Design – Methods & Strategies YouTube
  3. Lec 3: Product Life Cycle Assessment (Part A) YouTube

Week 4: Product Life Cycle Design

  1. Lec 1: Product Life Cycle Assessment (Part B) YouTube
  2. Lec 2: Life Cycle Assessment using Software YouTube
  3. Lec 3: Design for Product Life Cycle YouTube

Week 5: Sustainable Product-Service System Design – Definition, types & Examples

  1. Lec 1: Product-Service System Design – Definition and types YouTube
  2. Lec 2: Sustainable Product-Service System Design – Definition & Examples YouTube
  3. Lec 3: Sustainable Product-Service System Design – Examples YouTube
  4. Lec 4: Khadi Movement as a precursor to PSS thinking YouTube

Week 6: Sustainable Product-Service System – Transition Path and Challenges

  1. Lec 1: Sustainable Product-Service System Design – Transition Paths, Strategy and Challenges YouTube
  2. Lec 2: Sustainable Product-Service System Design – Methods and Tools (Part A) YouTube
  3. Lec 3: Sustainable Product-Service System Design – Methods and Tools (Part B) YouTube

Week 7: Designing for Sustainable Product-Service System – Methods and Tools

  1. Lec 1: Sustainable Product-Service System Design – Methods and Tools (Part C) YouTube
  2. Lec 2: Sustainable Product-Service System Design – Methods and Tools (Part D) YouTube

Week 8: Designing for Sustainable Product-Service System – Methods and Tools

  1. Lec 1: Sustainable Product-Service System Design – Methods and Tools (Part E) YouTube
  2. Lec 2 : Sustainable Product-Service System Design – Methods and Tools (Part F) YouTube

Week 9: Designing for Sustainable Product-Service System – Methods and Tools

  1. Lec 1: Sustainable Product-Service System Design – Methods and Tools (Part G) YouTube
  2. Lec 2: Sustainable Product-Service System Design – Methods and Tools (Summary) YouTube
  3. Lec 3: Sufficiency Economy Philosophy applied to Sustainable PSS Thinking YouTube
  4. Lec 4: LCA of PSS YouTube

Week 10: Other Design for Sustainability Tools and approaches - I

  1. Lec 1: Sustainable Product-Service System Design Applied to Distributed Economy YouTube
  2. Lec 2: Other Design for Sustainability Tools and approaches - Architecture YouTube
  3. Lec 3: Other Design for Sustainability Tools and approaches - Agriculture YouTube

Week 11: Other Design for Sustainability Tools and approaches - II

  1. Lec 1: Other Design for Sustainability Tools and approaches - Cities and communities YouTube
  2. Lec 2: Other Design for Sustainability Tools and approaches - Carbon Footprint YouTube
  3. Lec 3: Co-design Session YouTube

Week 12: Design for Sustainability – Engineering Design Criteria and Guidelines & Summary – Connecting the threads

  1. Lec 1: Design for Sustainability – Engineering Design Criteria and Guidelines YouTube
  2. Lec 2: Design for Sustainability – Engineering Design Criteria and Guidelines (ICS Toolkit) YouTube
  3. Lec 3: Design for Sustainability – Concluding Lecture (Part A) YouTube
  4. Lec 4: Design for Sustainability – Concluding Lecture (Part B) YouTube

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Guwahati
Department
Engineering Design
Teacher
Prof. Sharmistha Banerjee
Level
Graduate
Language
English
Subjects
Engineering, Art, architecture and design
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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