System Design for Sustainability
Course URL: https://swayam.gov.in/nd1_noc19_de03/...

Concept covered:
Sustainability as a Concept
•The concept of Sustainability is not a static goal.
•It is a dynamic and moving target responding to our ever increasing understanding of interdependencies between social and ecological systems.
•Sustainability is a system property and not a property of individual elements of systems.
•Therefore, achieving sustainability requires a process-based, multi-scale and systemic approach to planning for sustainability guided by a target/vision.
•Approaches solely aiming to generate technological solutions for sustainability problems tend to generate techno-fixes. These techno-fixes target issues in
isolation, disregard systemic intervention opportunities, and while seemingly solving a problem at a point in a system, only transferring that problem to another point.
•On the other hand, a sole focus on social innovation is not likely to achieve the levels of change required in large socio-technical systems meeting society’s energy, mobility or housing/infrastructure needs

Playlist link:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwdnzlV3ogoXD4NBvgyZJhsDUgaEB1nV3

Ms Sharmistha Banerjee
Department of Design
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati