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Designing back from the future: building scenarios to engage students with global challenges
How can we move students from critically analysing contemporary challenges – for example urban inequality and unsustainability – to also imagining possible responses to them? In this chapter, which draws on my book Creative Universities: Reimagining Education for Global Challenges and Alternative Futures (Schwittay, 2021), I show how introducing students to design thinking and methods, including scenario building, is an active learning approach that combines critique and creativity in university classrooms. While design methods can be applied in any course that deals with social, economic or ecological challenges, the activity described here is based on a series of exercises I undertake with students in a third-year specialist module on Urban Futures and is informed by my long-term collaboration with design-educator Paul Braund (Braund & Schwittay, 2006).
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University of Sussex LibraryExternal DOI
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102-107Pages
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100 Ideas for Active LearningPlace of publication
University of Sussex, UKISBN
9780995786271Department affiliated with
- Anthropology Publications
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Tab Betts, Paolo OprandiLegacy Posted Date
2022-08-09First Open Access (FOA) Date
2022-08-09First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2022-08-09Usage metrics
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