SCOUTING SUSTAINABLE FUTURES
21.11.2023 – 24.11.2023

This course addresses current practices in business design and challenges existing developments to creatively and practically explore the aspect of sustainability. We will look at concepts and techniques with a view to thinking about the design and development of sustainable products and services for the future.

Learning goals

After completing the course, participants will understand the basic requirements for corporate design and development with a focus on sustainability. They will be familiar with the concepts and benefits of design thinking for the design and development of products and services. Participants will be able to introduce and implement design thinking in the areas of empathy, definition, ideation and prototyping for practical, user-centered products and services.

Content

Potential of sustainable solutions
Key tools for the identification of problems and challenges in companies and industries
Scenario-based exercises for sustainable design and development in professional and business environments

Target group

Professionals in business management and marketing, as well as designers who develop scalable products and services and oversee design and development processes.

Prerequisites

English level of at least B1 (according to the European Framework)
Own laptop (the course will utilize Miro, an application for brainstorming and presentation)

Dates

November 21 – 24, 2023 (on-site in Berlin).

LECTURER

Dipl.-Ing. Stefanie Holzheu, Dr. Sang Lee

Dipl.-Ing. Stefanie Holzheu is a media architect, creative technologist and lab manager of Prototype Showcase of the Futurium Lab and the Open Lab Night, an informal learning program at Futurium Berlin. She explores the boundaries between design and material environment with a focus on functional aspects of intelligent spaces, new interactivity in space and innovative information systems. She develops and offers bespoke workshops and courses for various companies, organisations and groups, such as ReDI and Cisco Systems. She taught architectural design and media at Technische Universität Berlin, Bergen School of Architecture, and Bauhaus University Weimar.

Dr. Sang Lee is an architect with a Ph.D. in architecture. He is a tenured University Docent at TU Delft, Netherlands, where he teaches architecture and sustainable design. He has also taught and given lectures on architecture and sustainability at several universities in the EU and the US. Dr. Lee has contributed numerous papers and chapters to international conferences, journals, and books, including the widely cited “Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture” (2011). For more than a decade, Dr. Lee has expanded his research on the concepts and practices of sustainability to include a wider range of applications beyond architecture. He believes that architecture is the fundamental basis for sustainability since the majority of our material world is concentrated in buildings and cities with complex user experiences. Based on his expertise as an architect, Dr. Lee's courses offer effective topics and applications that are highly relevant to the development of products and services in general.

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