Injecting "design" into the formula

In today's increasingly interdisciplinary post secondary educational landscape sustainability is the key recurring constant that is appearing in the form of green campuses, greening existing curricula and inventing new majors and hybrid disciplines in which art, design and creativity are taking on new value and cache on campus. In this paper I will discuss strategies and conceptual models for intersecting sustainability, education and engineering with design disciplines by discussing some of the strategies being practiced today. The primary goal of this paper is to advocate for bringing design thinking into numerous disciplines as a catalyst and as a means of addressing the complex needs of our endangered planet in a responsible and innovative way that could also be honest and effective. (author)