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Sustainable design: a new paradigm for engineering education

This essay rejects the notion that we understand sustainability well enough to talk about ‘sustaining sustainable design’. The wide-ranging literature is surveyed to explore the contested meaning of sustainability. What emerges is an evolution of the meaning, withenlarging scope and philosophical basis, from an environmental emphasis to a focus on human flourishing and caring. A definitionconsistent with the most evolved view is that: ‘Sustainability is the possibility that humans and other life will flourish on the Earthforever.’ Ideas are presented about how flourishing can guide design.

Andrew Lau

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