Teach - in

I visited V&A lecture room for ecological and sustainability literacy in design education by 2012. Speakers included John Thackara, Andrew Simms, Jonthan Crinion, Stephanie Hankey, Richard Hawkins, Ben Gill and Emma Dewberry.
Design education must move quickly to respond to urgent environmental pressures. Climate change is a severe problem that will require a response from all sectors of society. Design education must embrace its unique ability to facilitate change by engaging with the concept of ecological literacy, communicating key concepts of environmental sustainability, and initiating a wide-reaching learning process. This re-focus of priorities within design education will help make design a key player in our collective response to global environmental imperatives.
Ecological literacy is an understanding of ecological systems and an awareness of how society operates within natural imperatives. Informed by an understanding of ecological systems, new concepts and tools can help the design industry become an important player in the transition to a sustainable system. This project is lead by EcoLabs, an ecological literacy initiative in London.