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As we look to the immediate challenges presented by ongoing climate change – as well as broader questions around equity and social justice – sustainability, and sustainable practices, are key to every discipline taught within the Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building. Indeed, given the future focus of all of UTS, sustainability is a challenge to be met across the entire teaching body.
No wonder then that LX labs, UTS's teaching and learning support team, are particularly interested in how sustainability informs the practice of teaching itself.
An informative blog post by the LX labs' Richard Ingold looks at just that, interviewing a number of UTS academics including Professor Sara Wilkinson from our School of Built Environment.
The future, practice and optimism: how sustainability influences UTS academics
Richard Ingold | 16 February 2022
When I first started investigating the concept of sustainability, I was intrigued by the term itself. In my first post, I asked five field-leading UTS academics what the term sustainability meant to them. Their insights gave me a sense of the uniqueness of their disciplinary perspectives and, perhaps more importantly, the kinship their understandings of sustainability share—a concern for the natural environment and the survival of humanity; the need for interdisciplinary and social understandings of sustainability.