A Lowtech guide for everyone
Discover the Lowtech guide produced as part of the Erasmus + project ‘LT4Sustain (Low-Tech for Sustainability)’.
Grenoble INP - Ense³, UGA took part in the Erasmus + project ‘LT4Sustain (Low-Tech for Sustainability)’, from the beginning of 2022 to the end of 2024. This project brought together an international consortium made up of 4 higher education establishments (engineering, design, management) from 3 countries (TU Dublin, University of Mons, Université Technologique de Troyes, Grenoble INP - Ense³) and an association, the Low-tech Lab Grenoble.
The teams worked together to produce a guide: ‘Lessons in low-tech: a handbook for sustainable education’, which in almost 300 pages presents a proposal for 9 teaching modules based on the concept of low-tech, as well as examples of teaching practices, an inventory of skills, etc.
Below, the 9 modules of the guide:
1. Design for Sustainability
2. Art of Simplicity
3. Open Design
4. Design for Resilience, Repairability, Reliability
5. Trade-offs between design objectives
6. The imperative of Responsibility
7. Low-tech Entrepreneurship
8. Territory
9. How to run a low-tech Hackathon
This guide is intended for :
The guide is available under a free CC BY SA licence by clicking on this link.
Before delving into the details of the contents, you can also consult this ‘Zine’, summarising the contents (in French). You can print it out and fold it to make a beautiful object for distribution.
The teams worked together to produce a guide: ‘Lessons in low-tech: a handbook for sustainable education’, which in almost 300 pages presents a proposal for 9 teaching modules based on the concept of low-tech, as well as examples of teaching practices, an inventory of skills, etc.
Below, the 9 modules of the guide:
1. Design for Sustainability
2. Art of Simplicity
3. Open Design
4. Design for Resilience, Repairability, Reliability
5. Trade-offs between design objectives
6. The imperative of Responsibility
7. Low-tech Entrepreneurship
8. Territory
9. How to run a low-tech Hackathon
This guide is intended for :
- Teachers, to help them gain an overview of the low-tech theme, and to enable them to pick out different concepts and activities to incorporate into their existing teaching, or to build new courses.
- Students, to complement courses that do not deal with these issues, and to support the transformation of teaching methods.
- The general public, to spread the low-tech philosophy, support local initiatives and share knowledge and practices.
The guide is available under a free CC BY SA licence by clicking on this link.
Before delving into the details of the contents, you can also consult this ‘Zine’, summarising the contents (in French). You can print it out and fold it to make a beautiful object for distribution.