EDT708 - Ethical and Sustainable Design in Local and Global Contexts
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Online with intensive seminars |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in E522 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | 4 x 2-hour online seminars per trimester in mid-July, mid-September, mid-October, and mid-November 4 x 6.5-hour on-campus intensive (seminars) per trimester in weeks 5 and 14 (Monday - Thursday 9.00am-3.00pm) Approximately 2-hours of online learning tasks and mentoring groups per week |
Content
Ethical and sustainable design in local and global context implements a futures-oriented approach to critically analyse how design and technology flexibly responds to diverse end-user needs and the broader sustainability impact, and to evaluate how these designed solutions evolve as technology and society needs change. We will take a human- and multispecies-centred approach to evaluate preferred futures relevant to individuals, local, national, regional and global communities, that address ethical, legal, social, economic, sustainability-based considerations. The unit will challenge teachers to envisage how taking a worldview of technology’s ever-evolving impact on society can lead to creating preferred futures that empower subjects to overcome power imbalance and inequities, emphasising the potential emancipatory role of technology. The unit culminates in participants collaborating to design, assemble evaluate and communicate a design- and problem-based learning project addressing an authentic real-world context in an ethical and sustainable manner.
Unit Fee Information
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Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
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