Advance and integrate sustainability into your creative practice. This jam-pack bundle includes Sustainability, Ideation & Prototyping, Sustainable Design & Production, Intro to the Disruptive Design Method, Intro to the Circular Economy + much more!
Discover how to make a change in your design practice and activate a sustainability mindset with this jam-packed knowledge building bundle. You will uncover core concepts of sustainability, unique ideation approaches and sustainable design strategies. Bonuses content will help you start to apply all of this out in the world for positive impacts by design. We recommend this bundle for anyone who is interested in changing the world, designing sustainable solutions, and understanding the beautiful complexity of systems.
Curriculum
What’s inside this pack
Full courses included: Sustainability, Sustainable Design and Production, Ideation & Prototyping
E-Books included: Design Systems Change Handbook, The Disruptive Design Method
Intro courses included: Circular Systems Design, Supply Chain Sustainability, Life Cycle Thinking, Circular Economy, The Disruptive Design Method
Bonus material: Circular Systems Thinking for Designers, Designercise Full Ideation Toolkit, Design Play Cards
Excellent value: This full pack is worth over $600 and you get access for 365 days!
This 5-part course will prepare you to reframe sustainability, think critically about where and how impacts occur, to see past ‘greenwashing’, to start thinking in systems, to map life cycles, and to make more sustainable decisions.
In our 5-part course on creative problem solving and ideation, generate more ideas using our 10 Golden Rules of Ideation and discover how to rapidly prototype for disruptive problem solving. This course goes beyond design thinking.
In this 5-part course, discover how to employ best-practice sustainability and eco-design strategies, learn how to embrace the circular economy, and activate a toolset that enables the development of sustainable products, services, and systems.
All design is powerful in its role in society. It is the all-pervasive social scriptor that influences almost every aspect of our daily lives, shapes our bodies, and influences our minds. At nearly every single moment of our lives, we are in contact with designed things. In this course, you will learn a full suite of circular design strategies and systems dynamics, along with how to apply them to the design process in order to leverage the power that design holds for making positive impacts. You’ll also learn how to manage trade-offs in decision making, along with holistic systems considerations, and engage in a product redesign using your newly-learned sustainable design strategies.
Major environmental and social issues occur throughout the supply chain. Take our introductory class on supply chain sustainability to learn how to map impacts, make change and become a leader in ethical and equitable supply chain management.
Discover how to activate positive social change through creative interventions with this introduction to the Disruptive Design Method. This is a 1-hour introductory class.
Learn the difference between our resource-draining ‘take, make, waste’ linear systems and the progressive circular economy movement that is regenerative and sustainable. This is a short introductory class.
The movement toward a circular and regenerative economy is well underway, and this handbook is here to help anyone discover how they, too, can design systems change for a positive future. The decision to be involved in change, be it in your personal or professional life, starts by discovering how to activate your personal agency, identifying the sphere of influence you uniquely hold and then actioning your creative potential to engage with change. The core content in the handbook offers a practical roadmap for activating a career as a creative changemaker by design.
How do we all contribute to designing a future that works better for all of us? By transitioning our products, businesses, governments, and communities to a circular and regenerative future by design. We can all see the system failures of a reductive and linear approach to meeting human needs, so now is the time to use our creative capacity to challenge the status quo, to design products and services that maintain and increase value over time, to create a post-disposable future, and to activate a positive contribution to this beautiful planet we all share. This handbook defines the key tools of Circular Systems Design, systems thinking, life cycle thinking and product service systems models.
Get a crash course in the Disruptive Design Method for activating and initiating positive social and environmental change by design. This is the perfect starter book for anyone wanting to have a positive impact on the planet!
Discover systems-led design change for participating in the circular economy with our beautifully illustrated downloadable starter pack on Circular Systems Thinking for Designers! Includes intro e-book, conversation cards and studio poster!
Download the Deluxe Designercise toolkit now with our DIY print and play set! With 20+ quick fun ideation games designed to enhance flexible thinking and bust brain-bias. Build your innovation and creative thinking skills, enhance your facilitation.
Great for use in schools, universities and design studios around the world, the award winning Design Play Cards helps players explore & frame creative problem solving through the lens of design for sustainability.
Certification
Looking to advance further?
Consider taking the UnSchool Practitioner Certification. This 6 month program is for anyone interested in making a positive impact on the planet through the practice of systems, sustainability and design. It is a practice based program packed with content, including handbooks, videos, learning challenges, systems thinking, and the circular economy. Includes all 12 modules of the Disruptive Design Method, perfect for anyone looking to enhance their personal practice.
“The UnSchool has had a profound effect on me, not only by redefining the way in which I view the world but also by altering my reflection upon past experiences”
“Everything around us is designed for better or for worse, so I find learning new methods of looking at the systems, the ways in which design interplays with them, and the potential approaches we can take to design more social and sustainable interventions is empowering.”
Anna SchlimmProject Manager, Company
Changed my mindset
“The UnSchool really changed my whole mindset and gave me so much energy and confidence to create positive change and self-belief.”
Souad GhaffariProject Manager, Company
World renowned expert training
Your instructor
Sustainability provocateur, award-winning designer, UNEP Champion of the Earth, and creative changemaker pioneer, Dr. Leyla Acaroglu challenges people to think differently about how the world works. Leyla’s main-stage TED talk on sustainability has been viewed over a million times, she is the founder of the UnSchool and creator of the Disruptive Design Method. As as a renowned international expert on systems thinking and sustainability, she runs workshops around the world and designs unique educational experiences that help equip people with the tools to intervene and change systems to make the status quo obsolete. Leyla is sought after for her unique approach to activating positive social change by design.
You will have access for 365 days from the date of purchase.
We recommend a few hours a week over the course of the year.
If you need more time, please send us an email. There may be a small fee depending on how much more time you need. These are granted on a case by case basis.
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As part of our goal to make our programs equitable, we offer both partial scholarships and payment plans. Our limited number of scholarships are awarded based on demonstrated need to certain select courses and programs. We fund these to promote equitable access to our programs. We are committed to offering our scholarships to community members who would otherwise be unable to access a program at all.
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“Everything around us is designed for better or for worse, so I find learning new methods of looking at the systems, the ways in which design interplays with them, and the potential approaches we can take to design more social and sustainable interventions is empowering.”
Anna SchlimmHead of Sustainable Futures at Holobiont and Lecturer at UAL
