The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s second biennale conference and expo will be held in Raleigh, NC in November. More than 1,000 participants are expected with more than 400 presentations and we will be among them!
Check out: http://aashe.org/conf2008/
“Breaking Sustainability Ground in Art and Design”
Is the title of the presentation I will be giving at the upcoming conference. I will have exactly 10 minutes (including Q&A) to talk about the sustainability related work we are doing here at SCAD. Due to the time constraint the focus will be on the Sustainability and Eco-Practices Council, its accomplishments during the first year of existence and the plans for the time ahead, such as the next Teach-In coming up February 5th, 2009.
The second topic will be the new graduate program and undergraduate minor, Design for Sustainability, including new courses, which I proposed to the Curriculum Council in Spring and Summer Quarter 2008. It is looking good so far, the first classes could be offered as early as Fall 2009, BUT the final word is not spoken yet. We made it over the first hurdles, the final approval is anxiously awaited.
So fall will be an exciting quarter. If you are a student and want to get involved in sustainability join one of the student groups, e.g. ‘ECOlogic’ at the Gulfstream Center for Design, or ‘Project Green’ at Eichberg Hall, or enroll into IDUS 384, Design for Sustainability. If you are staff or faculty and want to actively participate in the council, contact our new staff liaison John Bennett or myself.
Keep up the green work and have a great quarter!
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