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Is introducing sustainability sustainable?
Associate Professor Glenn Thomas
Associate Professor | School of Design | Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
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Glenn Thomas is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture in the School of Design. He holds qualifications in architecture and landscape architecture and undertook higher degree research in the area of strategic planning for land care. A diversified career spanning four decades in both private practice and tertiary education has given him a wide range of interest and expertise including sustainable site planning, urban design and landscape construction technology. He is the author of Australia’s only text on landscape construction theory and practice. He has also written monograph on sustainable site planning together and published a wide range of other works.
An invitation as a Visiting Academic to the University of Pretoria, South Africa, in 2000 led to two further visits to South Africa. There he worked with QUT students and members of the small community of Morija in Lesotho. This has led to his increasing interest in the issues of sustainable development in third world countries. Glenn has a long history of leadership within the profession of landscape architecture and is a past president of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects at both state and national level. |
Project Summary
The Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering has a Curriculum Development Project. This project involves two faculty-wide units (BEB100 Introducing Professional Learning and BEB 200 Introducing Sustainability) that will be embedded as first majors within 19 disciplines for three new undergraduate degrees.
My project involves developing appropriate teaching resources for assessment tasks that support these units by:
- effectively incorporating CRA principles
- enhancing the learning experience for students in BEB200 Introducing Sustainability
- establishing faculty-focussed curriculum design strategies for wider application in the implementation and monitoring of the new courses.
The project will deal with aspects of QUT’s strategic teaching and learning directions.
Specific emphasis is given to facilitating students’ development of knowledge and skills that will equip them for a world characterised by increasing globalisation and economic, social and environmental change.
Download the project presentation.
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