Design Education for a Sustainable Future

Fleming argues that real sustainability demands a new kind of designer — collaborative, ethically grounded, empathic and technically able — and rebuilds design education to produce one. It ties the SDF's Sustainability motto to the profession's institutional facet: what we teach shapes who practises at the Frontier. Published by Routledge, Rob Fleming argues that real sustainability requires a new kind of design professional: collaborative, ethically grounded, empathic and technically capable. The book sets out to move design education away from an individualistic, competitive model focused narrowly on 'greening' and toward one built on cooperation and inclusivity, offering methods such as ethically infused design briefs, co-creative processes, value engineering, design simulation, and integrated learning and rating systems.