How I will deliver the Sustainability message to my students

Wow! I was amazed at the TED talk by Layla Acaroglu but also found it very overwhelming. It placed such an importance on identifying many different ways of doing things so we can start to innovate.

I enjoyed looking at the Life-cycle thinking that Layla was talking about. I loved how she quoted that "At every stage, there is an interaction with the environment." Through her explanation, it really opened my mind up to the life-cycle process.

Because I got so much more understanding out of the Life-cycle process, it would  be something I would want to teach to my students as well. It is good for them to think about the life expectancy of the materials we use and how they will impact on our environment.




I love how everything she explained could be linked to what we have been taught in this course and that is exactly how I would teach it to my students. I would teach them how to use the Design Process, taking each step one at a time and explaining the benefits of the process.

I would put a high priority on teaching the students how important it is to embed sustainable practices into every design and to use sustainability as a parameter. I would then talk to them about how every decision we make has an impact on future generations.

By reflecting on each design process, we can work out what was beneficial and what wasn't. We can then come up with new strategies to improve designs and come up with innovative solutions.