Building a Sustainable Future with Technology
UAL Creative Computing Institute
  • Start Date: 01 Aug, 2022
  • 3 weeks
  • Study Content: Videos


Explore climate equity, technology, and the relationship between organisations and individuals in building a sustainable future.

Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility

Course Description

This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.

Understand the impacts of technology on the environment


The climate crisis is one of the most pressing issues we face, with technologies playing a huge part in the destruction of our natural environment. We need to take action and move towards more sustainable models for technology.


On this three-week course, you’ll discover critical approaches to technology and sustainability, understanding the role that technologies play within our lives and how it affects our natural environment.


By the end, you’ll learn to view technologies as part of a broader ecosystem of organic life – as tools with life cycles of their own that have a direct impact on our environment.


Explore feminist and decolonial practices


You’ll start by defining sustainability as you explore how community, government, and corporations take different approaches to sustainability.


Next, you’ll unpack exploitation and climate equity as you look to feminist and decolonial practices. Hearing from a variety of experts, you’ll gain a critical lens to explore the problems we face.


Investigate which sustainable practices meet your needs


To help implement sustainability in your everyday life, you’ll delve into different sustainability practices to explore which ones meet your needs.


Next, you’ll consider how you live with technology and experiment with a creative repurposing project of your own.


Explore sustainable investing


Finally, you’ll explore how the tech industry can manage production processes to work towards circular economies. You’ll also explore sustainable investing including within indigenous communities and using alternative materials.


Guided by the experts at UAL’s Creative Computing Institute and across industry, you’ll finish the course with the knowledge of the impacts of technology on the environment and how we can work together for a sustainable future.


This course is designed for anyone interested in the impact technologies are having on the planet, and what changes you can make as consumers or creators of technology.


It will be particularly useful for those in the creative industries, architecture and design agencies, the technology sector, small business owners, and students.


Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.

UAL Creative Computing Institute

This university is part of the partnership between eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn.

This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.

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