User:SustainabilityThinking

DEEDS (Design Education for Sustainability) is an EU-funded programme through the Leonardo da Vinci programme. The project began in October 2006 and is due to complete its first phase at the end of September 2008.

The Leonardo da Vinci programme is part of the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme, designed to build a skilled workforce through European partnerships.

DEEDS exists to promote communication and expertise between designers working in the sustainability arena, and academics teaching sustainable design throughout Europe. The website www.deedsproject.org carries case studies of best practice in teaching and methodologies and is being added to through 2008.

Partners of DEEDS are: ICIS (the International Centre for Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability, Denmark), with other project partners: Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland; BEDA (the Bureau of European Design Associations); SERI (the Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Germany), and the Faculty of Arts & Architecture, University of Brighton.

The dissemination process for DEEDS in its first phase is being tracked on the DEEDS website and also through a conference at 100% Design, London (Friday 19th Sept), at the University of Brighton (Saturday 20th Sept) and with an informal eco-architecture tour around Kent and Sussex (Sunday 21st Sept).