The design of Eco Board Games as an umbrella approach to sustainable product design education

Year: 2009
Editor: Clarke, A, Ion, W, McMahon, C and Hogarth, P
Author: Boks, Casper; McAloone, Tim
Section: SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
Page(s): 390-395

Abstract

The multidisciplinarity and quickly broadening scope of sustainable product design education provide incentives for experimentation with different pedagogical techniques. One of these, involving the development of eco board games, has been used at both the Technical University Denmark and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. This paper aims to reflect on the experiences, in terms of ratonales, learning goals, possible variations of the exercise, delivered course work, and future ambitions.

Keywords: Game-based learning, sustainable product design education, course development