Imperatives for a Sustainable Future provides you with a critical understanding of the theoretical and practical implications of design as a professional activity and the impacts it can have on a local, regional and global scale. It aims to develop an understanding of how to deal with complexity and wicked problems using a design thinking framework informed by an understanding of the four pillars of sustainability. You will use foresight tools for developing sustainable strategies as well as methods for measuring and monitoring successful implementation.

Key themes will include the four pillars of sustainability, futurist philosophies, wicked problems, sticky solutions, complexity, interdependency, products, services and systems, localism, manufacturing methods, responsibility in leadership and cross disciplinary collaboration.