The Learning Network on Sustainability: an e-mechanism for the development and diffusion of teaching materials and tools on Design for Sustainability in an open-source and copy left ethos.

This paper presents the intermediate results of the Learning Network on Sustainability (LeNS) project, Asian-European multi-polar network for curricula development on Design for Sustainability (DfS). LeNS is a mechanism to develop and diffuse system DfS in design schools with a transcultural perspective. The main output of the project is the Open Learning E-Package (OLEP), an open web-platform that allows a decentralised and collaborative production and fruition of knowledge. Apart from the contents, the same LeNS web-platform is realised in an open-source and copy left ethos, allowing its download and reconfiguration in relation to specific needs, interests and geographical representation.