Climate change is threatening our future
Transforming Higher Education
Rob Fleming, A.I.A, LEED AP
Rob Fleming, AIA, LEED AP, is the Co-creator and Director of the award-winning Master of Science in Sustainable Design Program at Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University). The program has received national awards from the United States Green Building Council and from the National Institute for Building Sciences. Rob is also the author of Design Education for a Sustainable Future, published by Routledge in 2013. He is also a Sustainability Fellow at Re:Vision Architecture in Philadelphia where he consults and facilitates integrated design charrettes. My Guiding Principles are:
Advocate for social equity in the built environment
Create a regenerative built environment
Make place-making a critical part of sustaianble design
Bring economic vialbility to design education
Visualizing a Sustainable Future
These images will be helpful sorting out the complexities of sustainable design
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My Books
Check out the MS in Sustainable Design Program at Thomas Jefferson University
Sustainable Design for the Built Environment
A top 100 Sustainability book!
I am so excited that my book has consistently broken the top 100 for sustainability books. A new version is coming out in February with the typos corrected and some other fixes as well. The book also comes with a fully develoed course that should be ready for this summer. Let me know if you Read more about A top 100 Sustainability book![…]
A Conversation with Planet Earth – 2020
Check out my annual “State of Sustainability” conversation with the Planet Earth Each year, I check in and see how things are going with the home planet. I provide a transcript of our conversation below: Me: Well Earth, It’s been a year now, how are things? Earth: I am still fine, but I can’t Read more about A Conversation with Planet Earth – 2020[…]
What is your “+1” for 2020
A lot of folks will talk about sustainability as a +1. They see it as an added benefit to a product or project. For example, you might hear people say “That’s a great design project, and its green as well.” In this quote “green” is a bonus or an added benefit, but the priority is Read more about What is your “+1” for 2020[…]
“The ‘O’ shaped student, preparing the next professional for the 21st century”
Title: “The ‘O’ shaped student, preparing the next professional for the 21st century” Abstract Synopsis: The “T” shaped professional has been identified by Tim Brown of Ideo as the desired profile for 21st-century professionals.[i] Breadth and depth of knowledge is an accepted framework for thinking about the professional student. In the 21st-century , a new Read more about “The ‘O’ shaped student, preparing the next professional for the 21st century”[…]