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Essay

Augmenting Design Education for Sustainability through Field Exploration: An Experience of Learning from DIY Practices in a Rural Community

by
Alexandra Raeva
1,
Svetlana Usenyuk-Kravchuk
1,*,
Anton Raev
1,2,
Irina Surina
2 and
Marina Fionova
2
1
Siberian Design Centre, Tomsk State University, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
2
Industrial Design Department, Ural State University of Architecture and Art, 620075 Ekaterinburg, Russia
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2021, 13(23), 13017; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132313017
Submission received: 30 September 2021 / Revised: 16 November 2021 / Accepted: 17 November 2021 / Published: 24 November 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Design Education and Implementation)
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This article (visual essay) provides a glimpse of a field trip ventured by design students as part of a larger study of developing a localised version of design education for sustainability, focusing on the wants and needs of non-urban populations in vast Russian hinterlands. The central goal is to introduce would-be designers to the concepts of locally appropriate technology and sustainable/circular living by real-life examples and, eventually, teach them to recognise the sustainable potential of place-based technologies and practices of their making, using and maintaining. The primary data came from the trip to Pozhva, a village in Permskiy Krai, Russia, that gained popularity among DIY activists and users of off-road vehicles in Russia in the early 2000s because of its unique, community-centred manufacture of lightweight ATVs on low-pressure tires, nicknamed “jeeps”. This article presents the students’ journey in a comic strip portraying a composite character of technologies and their user-designers as experts in local conditions and (subconsciously) agents of circularity. The article closes with a discussion on the expedition’s discoveries and learning outcomes, correlating them with broader implications for design education.
Keywords: sustainable design education; student experience; situated learning; transport design; remanufacturing; circular economy sustainable design education; student experience; situated learning; transport design; remanufacturing; circular economy

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Raeva, A.; Usenyuk-Kravchuk, S.; Raev, A.; Surina, I.; Fionova, M. Augmenting Design Education for Sustainability through Field Exploration: An Experience of Learning from DIY Practices in a Rural Community. Sustainability 2021, 13, 13017. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132313017

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Raeva A, Usenyuk-Kravchuk S, Raev A, Surina I, Fionova M. Augmenting Design Education for Sustainability through Field Exploration: An Experience of Learning from DIY Practices in a Rural Community. Sustainability. 2021; 13(23):13017. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132313017

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Raeva, Alexandra, Svetlana Usenyuk-Kravchuk, Anton Raev, Irina Surina, and Marina Fionova. 2021. "Augmenting Design Education for Sustainability through Field Exploration: An Experience of Learning from DIY Practices in a Rural Community" Sustainability 13, no. 23: 13017. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132313017

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Raeva, A., Usenyuk-Kravchuk, S., Raev, A., Surina, I., & Fionova, M. (2021). Augmenting Design Education for Sustainability through Field Exploration: An Experience of Learning from DIY Practices in a Rural Community. Sustainability, 13(23), 13017. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132313017

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