Webinar: Sustainable Design From Vision to Action

This webinar describes the new textbook by the same name, and how it might be useful to attendees.  While there are many books on the concepts of sustainable design, this book describes how to actually implement them.  It both explains the high-level concepts and connects each one to a step-by-step actionable “how to”. It focuses primarily on physical product development, but also applies to services, systems, and digital products.  It includes a thorough range of quantitative and qualitative methods across the whole product life cycle, including materials, energy, systems thinking, durability and repair, recycling, user behavior change, business models, equity and inclusion, and more.  This talk describes the book, showing some details you will not find in other resources, and how you could use them yourself or to train others. 

Dr. Faludi teaches sustainable design at TU Delft, and has taught at Stanford, Dartmouth, and elsewhere. His Autodesk Sustainability Workshop videos have had over 5 million views from 140 countries, and he has contributed to six other books, including Worldchanging: a User’s Guide to the 21st Century.  He designed the first version of the biomimicry database Asknature.org, and a bicycle he helped design was in the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt museum.  Over 30 companies have used his Whole System Mapping method, and he wrote the OECD’s recommendations to governments on green 3D printing.