How cool would it be to graduate the next wave of designers with a degree in Climate Design?
This is our Big Hairy Audacious Goal.
But for now, CD EDU is providing design educators with the resources, projects, support, and additional ways they can bring climate-related content into their classrooms.
Project Briefs
Simple, easy assignments ready for your classroom
New Wave Research Project
Get the 2023/2024 New Wave Report that centers students’ experiences at the intersection of climate change and design education
Resources for Design Educators
Helping you understand the basics of climate science, sustainability, and more
Let us know how
we can help
Get in touch at hello@climatedesigners.org
Need some help?
Send us an email so we can talk through multiple ways to introduce climate into specific projects, provide a lecture for your class, and more.
Want to have us present to your class?
We've already spoken at various schools. Some of them include MassArt, MICA, Notre Dame, UC: Irvine, UM: Flint, UT: Austin, University of Arkansas, University of Wisconsin, University of Florida, and VCU.
Why are we doing this?
Designers create new things every day. The choices educators make in nurturing the design process toward responsible creation is vital to the health and vitality of our society and planet as we face the biggest challenge we’ve ever faced - solving global warming.
Educators already face too many daily challenges keeping up with technology, leading students through a pandemic, and balancing all the work required of us to keep our jobs or work toward promotion and tenure.
Adding an extra parameter of climate action into our already burdensome workload seems unfair. This is why we have put together these resources to help you introduce and discuss climate change in your design classroom effectively and help graduate the next creative leaders in design whose goal it is to solve our climate crisis.
We’re seeking feedback from design educators from around the globe. We want to know what typical projects you teach in all levels of higher education, so we can set a baseline to develop climate science parameters and resources that can be included. Even if you teach typography 101, we want to know!
Calling all Design Educators!
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