Schwittay, Anke (2022) Designing back from the future: building scenarios to engage students with global challenges. In: Betts, Tab and Oprandi, Paolo (eds.) 100 Ideas for Active Learning. University of Sussex Library, University of Sussex, UK, pp. 102-107. ISBN 9780995786271

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Abstract

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).

Item Type:	Book Section
Schools and Departments:	School of Global Studies > Anthropology
SWORD Depositor:	Mx Elements Account
Depositing User:	Mx Elements Account
Date Deposited:	09 Aug 2022 14:39
Last Modified:	09 Aug 2022 14:39
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/107332

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