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We take you from uncertainty to sustainability!
We take you from uncertainty to sustainability!
We help designers to ethically transition from isolated, linear and conventional practices into systemic, dynamic and sustainable ones. Reducing their environmental impact and achieving their social and economical goals on target .
Design and Sustainability... taken seriously!
Here, at the Symbiotic Design Academy you will learn critical thinking & problem solving skills to create genuinely sustainable design outcomes.
At the Academy we offer more that just online courses. Explore our Live Experience possibilities such as Workshops and Speeches.
Our approach towards Design.
Here at SDA we believe design is a complex systemic discipline where designers, good designers, do the right questions. And if you pay deep attention, you will find the answers to these questions embedded in them. Design is a shared compromise where petitioners and designers work on a one-to-one basis, putting emphasis in the relations between all components and the ecological niche in which the project will evolve. Research from an autopoetic perspective - which is the main tool to achieve a conscious decision-making process - will enable us to achieve a SYMBIOTIC DESIGN. Symbiosis is the only possible and feasible way to integrate design into a biotic environment. If this relation doesn’t exist, we will always be producing asymbiotic entities that will continue collapsing our ecosystems.
Students Testimonials
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Thanks to this introductory course I've received the basic understanding of the Symbiotic Design Framework. Though this is totally new concept for me, I feel great sympathy and emotional connection to it. In my previous career I preferred to involve in sustainable projects and in all of them I seemed to move more intuitively. Now I have a great chance to try more systemic and mindful process of SDF in my next project. It was a pleasure to meet Gonzalo Raineri as an instructor and mentor. Thank you.
Dmytro Bielopolskyi
Designer, Art Director, Professor
Ukraine -
“The course encourages critical reflection on design, "from and for design with the context", with society, with traditions and customs, with economics, with politics, without limitations...”
Rebeca Isadora Lozano Castro
Ph.D. in Design
Professor & Researcher
Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas.
Tampico, Tamaulipas. México. -
This is an excellent course! There is truly fresh and much needed original content and substance! A breath of fresh air! Highly recommended!!!
Lefteris Heretakis
Designer | Lecturer | Podcaster
Buckinghamshire, UK