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CCHU9001 Designs on the Future (21-22 Summer)


HKU
Enrollment in this course is by invitation only

About This Course

This course is intended to inspire thinking about the way we construct our living environments in order to find a sustainable balance. It examines a broad range of sustainability issues, and examines how they are related at Global, Territorial and Local / Personal scales:

- population and urbanization;
- resources - water; energy; and food;
- systems – transportation; technology and communicational health and environment; and community and governance.

The ideas raised in the on-line videos are discussed, researched and examined in weekly classroom sessions. The early assignments build technical knowledge and skills in: critical thinking; developing a position; and a advocacy within complex situations, and across different written, oral, and visual media. These allow students to complete a self-selected, individual sustainability project which is developed in later classroom sessions.

Gigantic Work