Design Thinking for Sustainability: Leveraging Design-Led Approaches to Achieve Sustainability Goals
Date: To be confirmed
Duration: 8 Hours
Mode Of Delivery: Face to Face
Tuition Fees: S$1100.00 (Before GST)
What You Will Learn
This Program is ideal for professionals and leaders building strategies to move the needle on sustainability efforts within their organisations or industries. The Program is less about the theory of sustainability, but introduces actionable strategies to help teams leverage design to create impact for sustainability for and within organisations.
Sustainability has moved from being a regulatory burden to becoming vital to an organization's future vision and a necessity for remaining competitive in a fast-changing global market. As the goalposts of environmental, social and financial issues move, the course will equip participants with new and creative ways to research, identify and create opportunities for sustainable action that is aligned with participants' organisation goals. The methods taught in the course will help participant to come out better plan, frame and scope new sustainable initiatives, as well as foster collaboration to develop new sustainable ideas with teams within participants' organisation.
This one-day course is packed with hands-on activities to experience and experiment with design-led strategies on participants' own organisation's sustainability challenges. Participants will finish the day with new ideas, tools and strategies to run back in their own organisations.
Who Will Benefit
Sustainability manager/director, Program manager/director, Corporate responsibility manager/director, Diversity, equity and inclusion manager/director
Instructor
Lee Tze Ming
Lee Tze Ming is an adjunct lecturer at the Division of Industrial Design, National University of Singapore. By bringing business perspective coupled with broad domain knowledge via active innovation consulting practice, Tze fluidly bridges conceptual innovation with market pragmatism. His teaching emphasises doing in order to think, experiencing in order to discern and make better design decisions yourself. Wynton Marsalis said it better: “Don’t adopt my prejudices; develop your own.”
Entry Requirements
English language proficient
Available Discounts and Benefits
Notes
Course Code: CDE-CET-DTS
*Learners must fulfill at least 75% attendance and pass all assessment components, to be eligible for SSG funding.
**Please note that the mode of delivery is subject to change in light of the COVID-19 situation.
Courses marked ‘online’ may have compulsory face-to-face sessions such as laboratory or hands-on components and details should be sought from the schools or departments before learners register for them.