In 2015, the United Nations compiled 17 goals which were aimed to foster sustainable development moving towards 2030. These goals, known as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are extremely impressive, far-reaching and admirable goals for our world as we grow to 8 billion people using more resources than ever. To many, these goals may seem out of reach, or even ‘not our problem’, but in this studio, students will explore how specific sustainability goals apply to their community in a real and tangible way. In doing so, students will break down these felt limitations and demonstrate methods and tools to engage in sustainable development starting in our own communities.

In this studio, students will address the UN sustainable development goals. The purpose and process will entail designing responses ranging from devices to campaigns which use a selected set of UN sustainable development goals to address a gap or issue originating in the student’s own community. Through highly-specific and locally-rooted concepts of sustainable development, students will demonstrate how a combination of small-scale physical intervention and large-scale conceptual thinking can break down these far-reaching goals into manageable and actionable steps forward. The end product is not the aim of this studio, but rather broadening concepts which seek to address the underlying issues and gaps in students’ communities. For example, for the massive wildfires in California, students would look at how the cause - a combination of tree health and faulty power lines - could be improved, rather than design a device which shields a user from a fire. Their solution could be a device that runs along the power lines and trims back adjacent branches to reduce arcing and eventual fires.

Students will begin with a first phase which entails researching, understanding, and choosing specific aspects of the selected goals which they feel are particularly deficient in their community. These local gaps or challenges will be analyzed and evaluated to begin understanding the nuances of what lies ahead.  Finishing out this phase, students will generate grand-scale conceptual responses to the challenge.

As students enter phase two, they will be tasked with designing small-scale yet distributed, autonomous interventions which are a physical manifestation of the large-scale conceptual response.  And finally, in phase three, students will design campaigns and policies which enact their responses, suggesting how these conceptual and physical responses can be implemented in the real world.

في عام 2015 ، وضعت الأمم المتحدة 17 هدفًا لتعزيز التنمية المستدامة نحو عام 2030. هذه الأهداف، أي أهداف الأمم المتحدة للتنمية المستدامة، مثيرة للإعجاب وبعيدة الأثر ذات أهميّة بالغة بالنسبة لعالمنا مع تقدمنا إلى 8 مليار شخص واستهلاكنا للمزيد من الموارد أكثر من أي وقت مضى. قد يبدو للعديد منكم أنّ هذه الأهداف بعيدة المنال أو حتى "ليست مشكلتنا" ولكن في هذا الاستوديو سوف يستكشف الطلاب كيف تنطبق بعض أهداف التّنمية المستدامة على مجتمعهم بطريقة حقيقية وملموسة. بواسطة ذلك، سيقوم الطلاب بكسر هذه القيود المحسوسة وإظهار الطرق والسّبل للمشاركة في التنمية المستدامة بدءًا من مجتمعاتنا.

في هذا الاستوديو، سيعالج الطلاب أهداف التنمية المستدامة للأمم المتحدة من خلال تصميم استجابات تتراوح من أجهزة إلى حملات التي تستخدم مجموعة مختارة من الأهداف المذكورة لمعالجة فجوة أو قضية ناشئة في مجتمع الطالب. من خلال مفاهيم محلّيّة عالية الدّقة عن التنمية المستدامة، سيوضح الطلاب كيف يمكن لمزيج من التدخل المادّي على نطاق صغير والتفكير النّظري على نطاق كبير أن يحول هذه الأهداف البعيدة إلى خطوات قابلة للإدارة وللتنفيذ. إن المنتج النهائي ليس الهدف من هذا الاستوديو بل سيكون توسيع المفاهيم التي تسعى إلى معالجة القضايا الأساسية والفجوات لدى الطلاب. مثلاً في موضوع الحرائق الهائلة في كاليفورنيا، سيبحث الطلاب في كيفية معالجة السبب، وهو مزيج من صحة الأشجار وخطوط الطاقة المعطلة، بدلاً من تصميم جهاز يحمي المستخدم من الحريق. يمكن أن يكون الحل الخاص بهم عبارة عن جهاز يمتد على طول خطوط الطاقة ويشذّب الفروع المجاورة للحد من الانحناء وبالتّالي الحرائق.

سيبدأ الطلاب في المرحلة الأولى التي تستلزم البحث وفهم واختيار جوانب معينة من الأهداف المختارة والتي يشعروا بأنها ناقصة بشكل خاص في مجتمعهم. سيتم تحليل وتقييم هذه الثغرات أو التحديات المحلية للبدء في فهم الفروق الدقيقة لما ينتظرنا. عند الانتهاء من هذه المرحلة ، سيقوم الطلاب بإنشاء استجابات نظرية واسعة النطاق للتحدي.

عند دخول الطلاب في المرحلة الثانية سيتم تكليفهم بتصميم تدخلات صغيرة الحجم غير أنّها موزعة ومستقلة والتي تمثل تجسيدًا ماديًا للاستجابة النّظريّة واسعة النطاق. وأخيرًا في المرحلة الثالثة سيقوم الطلاب بتصميم حملات وسياسات تسن ردودهم، مما يشير إلى كيفية تنفيذ هذه الاستجابات النّظريّة والمادية في العالم الواقعي.

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