Artists, designers and educators of today and the future have the particular challenge to create for a fragile world
where politics, economics and ecosystems are placed at the tipping point of culture, ethics and the tradition of the
artisan. The sustainability crisis is not merely one of the biophysical environment and its extreme degradation but
also a severe crisis of the social, cultural and individual environment. These crises are not just outcomes of global
demands in technology, production and volume but rather complex behavioural issues and the paradigms that sustain
them. With all these existential and philosophical issues at stake today, Universities offering Design education
programmes have the challenge of creating programs that embrace sustainability through transdisciplinary viewpoints.
In this paper, we are offering two transdisciplinary units - ‘Sustainable Institute’ and ‘All of a sudden!- Time
as paradox’ as case studies to exemplify Sustainability curriculum design and its outcomes.

Authors: Srisrividhiya Kalyanasundaram, Sandhiya Kalyanasundaram