Faculty Focus - Holly Robbins | Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Faculty Focus - Holly Robbins

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Creating Knowledge Workers for the Greener Product Marketplace: Duke, Pratt & MCAD

In a recent webinar hosted by Sustainable Minds, Holly Robbins, faculty in the MA in Sustainable Design Program at MCAD discusses how MASD students apply life cycle thinking to drive innovation and design ideas. She previews examples from The Practice of Sustainable Design, a course that she teaches in the program

Each of the educators will share their learnings and success stories about how they use Sustainable Minds to engage students in the essential conversation about modeling, measuring and interpreting results.

Their stories will demonstrate:

  • Using Sustainable Minds in the classroom, in online programs and in collaborative projects by undergraduate students, graduate students and professionals
  • Using environmental performance to drive product strategy creating breakthrough concepts

Click below for the full webinar and discussion.

WATCH the webinar recording transparencycatalog.com/blog/ccreating-knowledge-workers-for-the-greener-product-marketplace

Source and Image: Sustainable Minds

Categories
Sustainable Design
Life Cycle Thinking
Design Green Products
Eco Design
Published on
March 31, 2025

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