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.Student Sustainable Design Competitions
Either you love them or you hate them, but design competitions play a role in most college design courses. As the academic year finishes up, it’s time to think about where a sustainable design competition might fit into the schedule for next year. Here are a few ideas. NATIONAL COMPETITIONS In the UK, the RSA… Continue Reading
Let’s talk local
Many of us have probably assigned a “local materials” brief. I have a couple of these in my teaching guide. One focuses on having students work hyperlocally (10-mile radius) and the other focuses on the balance between local and global components. Global sources for the materials and processes in bluejeans Resources aren’t evenly distributed and… Continue Reading
What’s the future of garages?
The New York Times isn’t alone in reporting on a “silent” revolution of reduced automobile driving. NYT writer John Schwarts reports, in Young Americans Lead Trend to Less Driving, that in previous decades Americans drove more every year, until some point in the middle of the last decade, when they started to drive less. Recently… Continue Reading
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