This document discusses strategic questions for design education for sustainability. It notes that sustainability is a dynamic process rather than a problem with a solution. It also discusses the need to educate designers for sustainability at multiple levels - policy, social, institutional, and individual. The document outlines a feasibility study conducted in Sweden to understand how sustainable design research and education are currently approached and how they could be strengthened going forward. It recognizes that designing for sustainability and driving educational change is a complicated, complex issue that requires action at different levels through approaches like capacity building, overarching strategies, relevance to industry/society, interdisciplinary collaboration, and changing mindsets.

2. STRATEGIC QUESTIONS FOR DESIGN EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITYMerel CLAES, Simon O’RAFFERTY and Dr Frank O’CONNOREcodesign Centre, Cardiff, UKContext / Research / Proposition

4. sustainability is not ‘a problem’ waiting for ‘a solution’

5. it is a dynamic process of environmental and social phenomena

6. UNIVERSITIES AND HIGHER EDUCATION

7. Knowledge ProductionAdvanced Learning

9. “ feasibility study on sustainable design research and postgraduate education in Sweden” & Professor Tim McAloone

10. How to make sustainable design research and postgraduate education happen?Desk researchWhat is good sustainable design ?Where is it educated and researched?Expert interviewsWhat is good sustainable design ?How is it educated or researched? How will it be educated or researched?Where are the gaps? Field researchWhat is good sustainable design ?How is it educated or researched in Sweden? How will it be educated or researched in Sweden?Where are the gaps in Sweden?

14. it is complicated?

15. it is complex

16. SUSTAINABLE DESIGNDESIGNING FOR SUSTAINABILITY

17. }DESIGNING FOR SUSTAINABILITYEDUCATIONAL CHANGE? => propositions

18. Policy levelDesign education and research needs:Capacity buildingOverarching strategies

19. Social levelDesign education and research needs:To be relevant to industry and societyTo be future oriented

20. Institutional levelDesign education and research needs:CollaborationInterdisciplinary Diversity Innovative teaching methodsInnovation in an organisation

21. Individual levelDesign education and research needs:A change in mindsetTo build literacy in sustainability

22. }DESIGNING FOR SUSTAINABILITYEDUCATIONAL CHANGE? => actions