LeNS is a worldwide multipolar network for curricula development on Design for Sustainability lead by Carlo Vezzoli and Fabrizio Ceschin at the Politecnico di Milano. It focuses on promoting a new generation of designers (and design educators) who are capable to effectively contribute to a transition towards an ecologically and socially sustainable society. Therefore, the LeNS partner institutions jointly create an open e-learning package including modular teaching materials, tools for design educators and guidelines for courses on Design for Sustainability that could be freely modified, remixed and reused according to specific didactic needs. LeNS also conducts a series of broader diffusion activities targeting the design community worldwide. One example is the international LeNS conference which was titled “Sustainability in Design: NOW!” in 2010 and took place in Bangalore, India. Martina Mara and Harald Gruendl from the IDRV were invited as speakers and presented a paper on Poetry and Aesthetics of Sustainable Design.

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