Sustainability in design education

Narasimhan, Usha; Kumar, Dolly

Sustainability can eliminate negative social and environmental impacts in the design process. Incorporating this in design education can help create development and wealth for and with future generations, in a healthy environment for a healthy society The SCALES core Principles can expand the context of design life and can form one of the new approaches for designers. These principles – the main focus of this paper – can help create change agents and design leaders who can in turn take hold of the sustainability agenda. The focus of the paper is to show the usage of DEEDS core principles in experimental DFS education activities in Design and Fashion education in the Indo-Global context – Indian yet globally relevant. This paper discuses these prin- ciples with reference to a design project as case in example.

September 29, 2010