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Rethink the City: New approaches to Global and Local Urban Challenges (edX)

How do you plan future cities? Explore alternative theories and innovative solutions for urban challenges in the global south. You’ll learn about today’s urban challenges focusing on developing countries, referred to as the global south.

Introduction to Aerospace Structures and Materials (edX)

Explore the structural and material design of aircraft and spacecraft from the viewpoint of an aerospace engineer. How do you design an aircraft or spacecraft? And in doing so, how do you keep the risk of failure minimal while bearing in mind that they will eventually fail? In this [...]

Visualizing Japan (1850s-1930s): Westernization, Protest, Modernity (edX)

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Visualizing Japan (1850s-1930s): Westernization, Protest, Modernity (edX)
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A MITx/HarvardX collaboration, this course explores Japan’s transition into the modern world through the historical visual record. This MITx course was developed in collaboration with HarvardX and is co-taught by MIT, Harvard, and Duke historians. You will examine Japanese history in a new way—through the images created by those [...]

Introduction to Illustrator (edX)

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Introduction to Illustrator (edX)
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Create your own logos, icons, diagrams and other visual content according to graphic design industry standards with this introductory course to Adobe Illustrator.

Graphic Design Essentials (edX)

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Graphic Design Essentials (edX)
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Acquire the essential skills to become a working Graphic Designer from the basics of color theory to presenting a project to a client. This online course from LaSalle College Vancouver will introduce you to the basics of design, graphic and visual communication, image making, typography and the overall creative [...]

Big History: Connecting Knowledge (Coursera)

We currently face unprecedented challenges on a global scale. These problems do not neatly fall into disciplines. They are complicated, complex, and connected. Join us on this epic journey of 13.8 billion years starting at the Big Bang and travelling through time all the way to the future. Discover [...]

Sustainable Building with Timber (edX)

Innovations in architecture, engineering and manufacturing make it feasible to construct almost any building in timber, including high-rise structures. Discover how this way of building could help solve our climate, resource and housing related challenges.

Circular Economy: An Introduction (edX)

Ready to make a difference? Learn how to contribute to a sustainable economic system by implementing novel business and design approaches! Our global society is not sustainable. We all know about the challenges we’re facing: waste, climate change, resource scarcity, loss of biodiversity. At the same time, we want [...]

Water Works: Activating Heritage for Sustainable Development (edX)

Address contemporary challenges from a socio-spatial and cultural perspective, and activate water heritage for decision-making in water management. Water has served and sustained societies throughout history. Understanding the complex and diverse water systems of the past is key to devising sustainable development for the future with regard to socioeconomic [...]

Urban Design for the Public Good: Dutch Urbanism (edX)

Through a unique Dutch approach learn how to design landscapes and cities in response to social and environmental challenges. Are you an urban planner, designer, policy maker or involved or interested in the creation of good living environments? This course will broaden your scope and diversify your take on [...]