Building Views on Sustainable Development in Innovation and Design Education.MerelClaesHarbin Engineering University 23 September 2010merelclaes@gmail.com
   Background…
The educational system aims to prepare (young) people how to cope with potential problems and how to influence their future.
Sustainable development covers the activities to counteract the problems facing everyone’s quality of life…
However, people who most influence un-sustainability are the professionals who graduated from higher education. (Orr, 2001)
…Questions…
1: Is there something wrong with the worldviews of higher education?2: Do graduates lack vision?
…Clarifications…
Worldviews on Sustainability  (Claes, 2009)
Visions on Sustainable Development  (Hopwood et al, 2005)
Sustainability issues are complex and cannot be understood in isolation. What is your discipline?
(Claes, 2009)
Inter-disciplinarityis a collaboration process beyond the traditional boundaries to solve a question.Multi-disciplinaritydoes not consider relatedness of disciplines.Trans-disciplinarityhas a question that reaches across disciplines.
1: Is there something wrong with the worldviews of higher education?2: Do graduates lack vision?3: If we want a different world, do we need to design or to innovate?
Innovations are ideas that are further developed on a meaningful scale.
Design is the link between technology and humans.
1: Is there something wrong with the worldviews of higher education?2: Do graduates lack vision?3: If we want a different world, do we need to design or to innovate? 4: How can innovation and design work on sustainable development? 5: How can education contribute?
…Discussion.
a shared vision provides the learning organization with focus and energy…
(Hopwood et al, 2005)
…correlations between educational discipline and the shared vision…
…graduates settling into inter-disciplinary and learning organizations for sustainable solutions…
…misunderstandings, different levels of ambition, frustrations, stress…delays in innovation
Designers are often the only ones who can speak all the jargon. (Papanek, 1985)
Diversity offers a huge opportunity for sharing and creation of knowledge, but create challenges of creating a common understanding. (Fisher, 2005)
Education should teach futuredesigners the Perry scheme
…?...
Are design courses the cornerstone for higher education to become change agents in sustainable development?
Thank youmerelclaes@gmail.com

Harbin presentation

Editor's Notes

  • #5 Building capacities and vision.Builds on assumed needs  operates in the industrial age Drivers for students = Learning processes  come back to this later.Formal and informal activities.
  • #6 Activities of knowledge production and implementation => higher education
  • #7 Statement in the context of Western worldGraduated = Not yet you guys! Context of china ~ don’t make same mistakes Change agent
  • #8 Micro level
  • #9 Worldviews = concentration of the world:How does the world work? How can we solve problems (capabilities and strategies) Vision = What the want in the future (subjective)
  • #13 Sustainability challenges reductionists
  • #14 Do you focus one aspect?Does it goes beyond?
  • #15 Sustainability challenges reductionists
  • #16 Questions are not valid any moreInnovate or ex-novateWhat do you think innovation is?What do you think design means?
  • #17 What is the meaninful scale? Tacit Knowledge Indivitual learning  team learning
  • #18 Design is the humanizer of new green technologies. Creativity and dealing with uncertainty Difference Innovation  design = quantities and qualities af ideas
  • #19 Innovate or ex-novate
  • #21 People get creative and exited about the vision they want to accomplishTeam learning => students motivation to go to educational system
  • #23 Build on the assumed needs
  • #27 Creating a shared vision is not static process
  • #31 Design thinkingGestaltungskompetenzDo we need more trans disciplinary
  • #32 Design thinking