Marius Conti

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Teaching & PhD

Teaching

Humanities and Social Sciences Program

Courses

Design, futures and society

This course gathers EPFL and UNIL students in a combined approach of foresight and design. In interdisciplinary teams, participants explore our society possible futures and question their relationship to the present time through the creation of an artefact.

Creativity and participatory design

Design for sustainability I

Design for Sustainability takes the participants through practical concepts, tools and processes to propose design solutions that aim to improve the co-existence of humans, preserve biodiversity, and life-supporting systems. It integrates environmental, economic, social and cultural dimensions.

The course explores approaches at different levels (material, product, product-service sys

Design for sustainability II

See the full description in the autumn semester course - HUM-397: Design for sustainability I.

During the spring semester, sessions are devoted to the prototyping of a solution through a project-based approach.

Lecturers provide guidance on semester projects on a regular basis.

Teams will be made up of engineers (EPFL) and industrial designers (ECAL).