Innovation and Design for Industrial Sustainability Transformation – Project Course, 6 credits

The purpose of this project course is for the student to: (1) gain experience in applying, to a chosen case, methods, tools, and design strategies for sustainable product development with varying potential for industrial sustainability transformation. The student will also gain experience in: (2) developing, designing, building, and evaluating prototypes based on sustainability criteria and other requirements using different design strategies for sustainability, (3) techniques for identifying and managing risks and opportunities across different design strategies and solution concepts, and (4) learning how to use this to address needs in a broad socio economic context. The course includes practical exploration of the interaction between strategic, tactical and operational management levels in sustainability related decision making and implications for sustainable product development (for example, what constitutes a criterion, an indicator, a requirement, a risk, etcetera), application of a selection of methods and tools for sustainable product development, as well as application of innovation and design techniques for incremental and radical innovation.