| Identifier | Offered | Title | Description | Instructor | |
| Seminar | Sp23 | A brief history of electricity, electricity markets, and the future of the industry | Bonneville power administration and Pacific Northwest National Lab retiree Mike Warwick will share his experiences with the US electric grid and discuss integration of renewables. | Mike Warwick | [email protected] |
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DSGN 199 |
Circular Design Approaches—from C2C to Circular Economy | Explore Circular and cyclic-based design frameworks, such as Circular Economy, Cradle to Cradle, Biomimicry and The Natural Step. Knowledge-based learning to prepare for design application. | Shanna Ruyle | [email protected] | |
| DSGN 199 | Circularity: design systems that work with cycles | Apply specific techniques to a self-selected project to increase the design’s ability to circulate or return responsibly to the biosphere. Use a cyclic design framework as your guide, such as Circular Economy, Cradle to Cradle, Biomimicry and The Natural Step. | Shanna Ruyle | [email protected] | |
| DSGN 199/HC 299 | Circularity: extending the current conversation | Attend a live webinar or conference (e.g. GreenBiz Circularity, Circular Economy World Economic Forum, Circular Economy Events from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation) discussing current considerations for business and design. Use discussion and reflection to connect current understanding with the new information and how it relates to your studies, community and future goals. Build your own point of view and be able to articulate the benefits and drawbacks of a Circular economy and/or design approach. |
Shanna Ruyle |
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HC 407 |
SP22 | Skill-up in Circularity: applying design techniques | Choose your own Circular design adventure! Discover what circular design is, what the world is doing about it and most importantly, what you can do to design in a way that respects life and humanity on this planet…then do it! Gather the knowledge and skills to contribute your expertise and designs to help shape the world while collaborating and inspiring others along the path to a circular design future. | Shanna Ruyle | [email protected] |
| HC 407 | FA22 | The Nature of Design and the Design of Nature—an outdoor adventure | Spend time in nature to discover how nature can help solve your design challenges and how you can find inspiration in what it has to offer. At William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge south of Corvallis, spend the day learning how to collaborate with nature through the Biomimicry design process. Gain skills in how to find opportunities for your toughest (or most interesting) design challenges. After learning in and with nature, complete the course with a design concept based on what you learned or a challenge you seek to solve. | Shanna Ruyle | [email protected] |
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HC 299/DSGN 199 |
? AY23-24 | Regenerative Design: Making it Better | Learn how to apply design frameworks that highlight the benefits of designing to heal and repair ecosystem and/or social systems. Through a design challenge (of their own choosing or identified in the community), students will create a design that they can directly see the benefits from in a local ecosystem, OSU Campus or surrounding community. Based on Permaculture, Design for Social Justice, Design Thinking/Human-Centered Design, and Systems Thinking. | Shanna Ruyle | [email protected] |
| HC 299 | W23 | Expanding Sustainable Design for Society into Secondary Schools | Students will be introduced to current ideas about sustainable design and using design thinking to solve social problems. Students will then work in small groups to develop, teach and reflect on an activity that teaches about sustainable design aimed at either middle school or high school students. | Cory Buxton | [email protected] |
| HC 299 | F 22 | Sustainabilty and behavior change | This course examines the leverage points that can be used to trigger desired changes in behavior. Using design thinking, behavior design, persuasive design, and tactics for effective communication, explore how to identify resistance factors and motivators for change in order to design inspiring experiences that truly inspire action. | Deann Garcia | [email protected] |
| HEST/ANTH 201 |
W 23 |
Innovation for social impact |
Introduces methods for designing solutions to address needs of low-resource or other vulnerable peoples using tools from engineering and social sciences, and investigates techniques to bring ideas to market sustainably through social entrepreneurship. Multidisciplinary teams will step through the design process, including detailed needs assessment and customer discovery, critique and application of theoretical frameworks, exploration of the diffusion process and relevant system/institutions, prototyping, plans for technical and user experience testing, and considering implementation. |
Nordica MacCarty |
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