The efficient management of our shared resources and the way we dispose of waste and pollutants are crucial to achieving responsible consumption and production. Encouraging industries, businesses, and consumers to recycle and reduce waste is necessary, as is supporting consumers to move towards a more sustainable pattern of consumption.
This forms the basis of SDG12: Responsible consumption and production, which includes the following targets:
- Substantially reducing waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling, and reuse
- Reduce food waste along the supply chains, retail, and consumer levels
- Ensure that people have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development.
Digital Technologies for Environmental Sustainability (in the Singapore context) is a hands-on module that allows students to employ problem-solving and prototyping skills using digital technologies to address the above targets. In addition to case studies of how the issue of Responsible consumption and production is tackled by various Singapore organizations, communities and businesses, they will also be exposed to design thinking, hardware and software prototyping, prototyping tools and technologes (IoT, Microcontrollers, App development, Artificial Intelligence, AR/VR, Metaverse) and will gain first hand experience in using these tools to prototype a solution to address a challenge statement around environmental sustainability
Course Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate understanding of the need for environmental sustainability and how technologies can be used to address sustainability-related challenges
- Investigate and critique tech solutions for sustainability
- Apply design thinking skills to develop solutions to address sustainability-related challenges
- Develop low-fidelity prototypes of a proposed solution
- Apply technologies such as AI, WebApps, IoT, etc to address sustainability challenges
- Develop functional prototypes
