Season 2: Episode 11 – Sadeen Alhalabi & Adam Dziaba

How well are we preparing our design students for a career? Do we talk about climate and sustainability enough or effectively? What are our design students thinking and feeling about their education and future? Eric learns from two University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign design students Sadeen Alhalabi & Adam Dziaba about their insights into those questions and ideas to improve design education in part one of this two-part series called Climate Design in the Big World.

This podcast is sponsored by Dreamhost.

Sadeen Al Halabi is a Sustainable Designer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She believes in the power of empathy and learning from nature to create spaces, experiences, and products for people today and 100 years from now. Her aim is to be part of the movement that decouples economic and societal growth from environmental degradation. Sadeen wants to implement her digital and practical design skills/experience to help create built environments that restore nature and bring communities together.

Adam believes in designing with nature to create a better world, both for humans and for nature. He maintains that it is essential to understand the world differently in order to make the necessary change and that sustainable design should be inherent in every aspect of life. He is interested in revealing ways that we can still do the things we love without hurting the planet that still somehow loves us. Adam is interested in utilizing digital design and practical, hands-on work to present and actualize his ideas.

linkedin.com/in/sadeen-alhalabi

linkedin.com/in/adam-dziaba

Theme music by Casual Motive

At the end of each episode, we ask our guests what their ideal climate design project would be. They have four weeks with a class full of design students. We translated their response into a project brief that you can use for your class.

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