Dina El-Mogazi, MLADirector, Sustainable Design ProgramBucknell University, Lewisburg PA

Emergence of a Sustainable Design Program at Bucknell UniversityFollow-up to “SEEDing the pedagogical landscape: a design-based approach to sustainability education.”

2000: new courseENST 230 Introduction to Ecological Designdeveloped to fill a gap in the Environmental Studies curriculum, focuses attention on campus

2006-07: Bucknell University Environmental Center (BUEC) is established and recognizes the need to both teach and model sustainability…

Sustainable Energy and Ecological Design (SEED) Projects

• Demonstration Scale

• Maximize Educational Value

• Collaborative• Support

faculty/student research

• Design intensive• Intended to

grow/multiply

SEED Projects

• Solar Installations: 2006 to present

• Native Plants Garden: 2007 to present

• Bucknell Arboretum: 2008 to present

• Sustainable Cooperative: 2009 to 2012

• Green Roof: 2009 to present

• Wind Turbine: 2010 to present

Dana Engineering Green Roof: the SEED that reproduced

2009

•Design and fundraising

2010

•Green roof installed

2011

•Green roof instrumented, second green roof installed

2012

•Honors thesis completed

2013

•Third green roof completed

2014: Sustainable Design Program emerges…

• President’s Sustainability Council initiated.

• Campaign sustainability initiative features Sustainability Studio

• Interest in Maker Movement surges at Bucknell

• BUEC becomes BCSE• CGI becomes

Sustainable Design Program

Sustainable Design Program • Uses campus as living learning laboratory/design

studio• Emphasizes faculty/student/staff collaborations

based on SEED model• Draws upon diverse design disciplines and

traditions to address sustainability challenges • Explores broad range of design concepts, theories,

principles and approaches (for instance, scale linking, upcycling, LCA, waste=food)

Sustainable Design Programemerging themes

Landscape• Designing with

Native Plants• Permaculture

Design• Rain Gardens

and Constructed Wetlands

Built Environment• Green

Buildings• Sustainable

Infrastructure• Biophillic

Design

Sustainability Assessment• Greenhouse

Gas Inventories

• Waste Audits• STARS Survey

Sustainability Symposium• 2013: Envisioning

a Sustainable Campus

• 2014: Reimagining Prosperity

• 2015: Shaping Sustainability

Materials

• Life Cycle Analysis

• Upcycling• Waste

Minimization• Composting

Energy

• Design for Climate Neutrality

• Integrating Renewable Energy Technologies

• Passive Solar Design