Climate-focused briefs and projects you can use in your classroom today
Project Briefs
Each brief is full of project ideas, relevant resources, articles, links to inspiration, and more; just enough info to modify one of your existing projects.
Briefs by Topic
Briefs by Discipline
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Is there a topic or discipline you want to see here? Want to add to an existing one?
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Complete Design Projects
Looking for a whole new project? Check out our projects which are presented in a Google doc that you can easily copy/paste into your syllabus format and edit where you see fit.
Visualizing Your Impact
Instructor: Eric Benson
College Level: Junior, Senior
Duration: 3 weeks
Category: Data Visualization, Print
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Communicating Climate Change
Instructor: Eric Benson
College Level: Junior, Senior
Duration: 4 weeks
Category: Data Visualization, Information Design
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Medium is the Message
Instructor: Eric Benson
College Level: Junior, Senior
Duration: 6 weeks
Category: Packaging, Branding
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High Tech Meets High Tek (Traditional Ecological Knowledge)
Instructor: Eric Benson
College Level: Junior, Senior
Duration: 5 weeks
Category: Systems Thinking, Branding, UI/UX
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Four Squares
Instructor: Yvette Perullo
College Level: Foundation, Freshmen
Duration: 1–2 Weeks
Category: Foundational
Shifting Paradigms
Instructor: Marc O’Brien
College Level: Junior, Senior
Duration: 6–15 Weeks
Category: Interaction Design, Systems Thinking, UI/UX
The projects showcased are peer-reviewed and are the intellectual property of the design instructor.
If you use a project, please let us know and share your student outcomes. If you've substantially adapted or edited a project for your own needs, please resubmit your project for review and sharing.
Submit your climate-focused assignment
We’re looking to grow our Complete Design Projects section. Submit a project that you think would be a great addition to this page. We’ll review and get in touch with you as soon as we can.
Questions? Email us at hello@climatedesigners.org
Climify Assignments
At the end of each Climify episode, we ask our guests what their ideal climate design project would be. They have four weeks with a class full of design students. We translated their response into a project brief that you can use for your class.
FAQ
Do I still own my project submission?
The CD EDU Projects are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. In other words, you can use it in any way you wish, if you attribute it to the instructor listed on the project and share any alterations or use of these projects to hello@climatedesigners.org.
Can I include a submission on my CV/Dossier?
Yes, you can. We double-blind peer-review the submissions, so a faculty member can list an accepted project here on your dossier. Every college and university have different formats and language for their promotion and tenure documents, so please check with your university for guidance on where on your CV/dossier you can put this. (If you volunteer as a reviewer, you can also include that function on your CV/dossier under a category like "Service to the Profession."
What is our peer-review process?
We use a double-blind peer-review process which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. After you submit your project on your Google Doc, we will identify a minimum of two reviewers, and give them your proposal without your name and affiliation attached. The reviewers will either accept, accept with changes, or deny a project.
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