Sustainability in Automotive Design

Build a clearer sustainability mindset for automotive design, learning practical principles, material choices, and decision frameworks that translate into better design outcomes.

Course Goals

This masterclass gives a design studio a shared, practical understanding of sustainability that actually changes day-to-day decisions. We start with a common core so everyone speaks the same language, then we tailor the second half based on what you want to achieve: sustainable product decisions, lifecycle thinking, a CMF-specific workflow, or leading teams with sustainability in mind.

Either way, your studio will develop the capability to make sustainability-led design decisions with confidence, using a clear framework, shared terminology, and a repeatable workflow that fits real automotive timelines and constraints.

Key outcomes

• Understand the core sustainability levers designers can influence, beyond “green storytelling”
• Apply lifecycle thinking to spot the highest impact design decisions early, before tooling and supplier choices
• Build a simple decision framework for trade offs, for example mass, durability, repairability and recyclability