Teaching sustainability and design in Higher Education: lessons from consumerism and waste in the developing world.

Lambert, Ian

Abstract

The research collected and presented in this paper is based on the author’s first-hand account of the experiences and lifestyles of people living in and around Dodoma, the capital city of Tanzania. This paper examines the contrasting attitudes of different cultures, especially the cultural differences that exist between Western-European and Tanzanian models of consumption and sustainability.

• Conference Name: Enhancing the Curricula: Contributing to the Future, meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century in the Disciplines of Art, Design and Communication.
• Start Date: Apr 6, 2006
• End Date: Apr 7, 2006
• Publication Date: 2006
• Deposit Date: May 29, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: May 29, 2015
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 247-257
• ISBN: 0-954139-5-7
• Keywords: Design; Consumersim; Sustainability; Developing World
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8316
• Contract Date: May 29, 2015