94665 Designing and Evaluating Sustainable Innovations

Description

This subject introduces complexity and systems thinking with a focus on real-world sustainability issues. Students probe the nature and characteristics of complex systems and design interventions that move these systems towards sustainable futures. They explore a variety of mapping, modelling and intervention strategies and apply them to a current and complex sustainability challenge. Students engage with Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Impact Assessment, Life Cycle Costing and other frameworks and standards utilised by professionals to understand and evaluate the sustainability of products and systems. Through this process, students creatively and rigorously test key qualities they have identified in a complex system and put forward proposals that initiate change for sustainable futures.