The Sustainable Design Award: supporting 16 plus students in addressing sustainable design issues
Ian Capewell
Eddie Norman
2134/6425
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/The_Sustainable_Design_Award_supporting_16_plus_students_in_addressing_sustainable_design_issues/9348614
This paper outlines a new award scheme
currently being trialled in nine schools in
England and Wales with AS and A2 design
and technology students and discusses some
early feedback. The scheme’s fundamental
aim is to integrate thinking about
sustainability into advanced level work.
Students who show they have thought through
sustainability issues at each stage of their
coursework option will be given an award.
The scheme is designed to provide students
with ideas for devising design briefs and
specifications from genuine, real life contexts
from around the world. It is backed by a
number of different organisations which will
give back-up information and feedback to
students throughout their AS and A2
coursework. Teachers in the pilot schools
have access to a sustainability pack that helps
both them and their students to tackle
fundamental issues of sustainability such as
reducing, recycling and reusing. The scheme
is currently funded by the Department for
International Development (DFID), the
Construction Industry Training Board (CITB)
with in-kind support from other organisations,
including DATA. Over 70 schools have
expressed an interest in becoming involved in
the Sustainable Design Award (SDA) scheme
in 2003/4.
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