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From August 30 to September 4, the 2nd Sustainable Summer School at the University of Wuppertal will take place at a former monastery in Jüchen near Düsseldorf. This year’s theme will be “Societies, Systems and Swarms”. In four workshops, the students will aim to develop creative ideas on how people can act sustainably in their daily routine. Lecturers from Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Ecosign / Academy of Design in Cologne, the University of Lucerne and the University of Wuppertal will lead the workshops. Design students from both Germany and abroad can register; they will receive two ECTS credits for attending the workshops. The cost amounts to € 390 including board and lodging as well as a round-trip between Düsseldorf and Jüchen.
Brigitte Wolf, Professor of Design Theory at the University of Wuppertal, and Christa Liedtke from the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy are the initiators of the Summer School.

At the project's website you can also download information on the 1st Sustainable Summer School in 2009. Students developed ideas aiming at the reduction of the damaging impact of products and services on the environment by enabling their repeated use or use by many or by making them more easily accessible. The documentation in English encompasses articles by the initiators and guest speakers, among them Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek, the President of the Factor 10 Institute, and Michael Radau, Manager of SuperBioMarkt AG, as well as the organizers of the conference.

To register, please visit: designwalks.org

Image: The Sustainable Summer School (here showing a picture of last year's first edition) takes place in a former monastery.


Source: http://www.form.de

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