Special Topics in Entrepreneurship: At The Root: Radical Sustainability and Design

This course explores the connections between design, socio-technical systems, and diverse worldviews in working towards more sustainable societies. The course will be of value to students across disciplines interested in contemporary sustainability issues and bold responses to those issues. We will take an expansive view of sustainability and design in this course, examining issues and possibilities spanning scales and technologies. This includes how to mitigate the environmental costs of AI, how cooperatives and community economies can transform traditional markets, and how decomposition and decay offer novel approaches to product design.