On this online microcredential, you’ll delve into transformative concepts in circular cities to gain an understanding of sustainable practices and solutions.
Learning from the experts at Deakin University, you’ll explore how circular strategies can revolutionise urban living, focusing on ecological preservation, infrastructure sustainability, and cultural enrichment.
Master stakeholder engagement for circular city initiatives
You’ll start by sharpening your community engagement skills through focused projects and comprehensive city strategies.
With this knowledge, you’ll learn to successfully collaborate with stakeholders to implement circular solutions throughout diverse urban systems.
Next, you’ll enhance your understanding of circular economy principles to optimise resource management. Discover advanced techniques for boosting resource efficiency and minimising waste, facilitating a sustainable transformation of urban environments.
Learn how to innovate urban systems
Throughout the microcredential, you’ll gain innovative insights into reimagining urban systems.
Master the integration of natural, human-made, and socio-cultural systems to design resilient, sustainable infrastructures.
Create sustainable solutions with circular urban business models
Next, you’ll develop business models that promote sustainable urban growth. Formulate actionable strategies enabling businesses to integrate circular principles, driving both economic and environmental success.
Then you’ll focus on creating urban infrastructures that integrate biological and ecological systems within circular cities. Learn how to apply these systems to improve urban biodiversity and sustainability, utilising natural processes to build resilient structures.
Understand sustainable urban development
Finally, you’ll explore the intersections between technical, built, and social systems to develop circular solutions that foster sustainable living and adaptability in a rapidly evolving world. Develop specific strategies tailored to city needs that embrace circularity and address urban challenges efficiently.
You’ll also master circular metabolism to achieve long-term resource optimisation as well as the ability to conduct in-depth sustainability analysis to craft integrated urban plans that bolster environmental resilience and health.
How will the skills you learn help in your career?
To fill a sustainable urban development gap, there is a need for the transformation of circular economy and renewable energy concepts/principles into the social and spatial context of cities and the built environment. This microcredential aims to upskill various industry sectors to facilitate national, regional, and local sustainability targets.
By the end, you’ll be equipped with essential skills for thriving fields like sustainability consulting, urban planning, green building design, and resource management. You’ll be prepared to pioneer transformative changes in alignment with regional and global sustainability goals.
How will you be assessed?
Acting as circular city innovators and sustainability consultants, you’ll design and propose a circular city initiative. You’ll create a detailed proposal outlining a strategy for transitioning a specific urban sector or function towards circularity.
Through this exercise, you’ll integrate key concepts, strategies, and implementation methods learned throughout the microcredential, while also undertaking critical reflection tasks at key points. You’ll also complete three quizzes throughout the microcredential.
The final assessment is a 2,500-word written submission.
What will you receive?
Upon successful completion of the written assessment, you’ll be awarded 0.5 Postgraduate Level Credits from Deakin University, and a Credly digital badge. You can build up your credits by completing more microcredentials offered by Deakin University.
