Creation Care Week
Every year Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) dedicates a week to raising awareness of the school’s sustainability efforts and educating students about sustainability in their own lives. This year the senior class of graphic designers worked closely with the PLNU Office of Sustainability to promote the week on campus. Using a human-centered design approach, we began with the design question: How might we ignite a campus-wide dialogue about Creation Care Week at PLNU? Our answer was to create opportunities for students to learn about the week and PLNU’s sustainability tactics. Working as part of a team, my job was to create installations that stated facts about PLNU’s efforts to be environmentally friendly. Those facts were stenciled step by step onto outdoor staircases across campus in green, orange, and teal, covering solar panels, recycling, water use, and shuttle ridership.