The elective course "Rethinking Development and Sustainable Design" is a reading course that takes a critical stance by scrutinizing both "Development" and "Sustainability", as public discourses typically seem to understand these two interrelated concepts today. The goal is to reveal and discuss what kind of developmental paradigm these discourses typically try to sustain and if there are other alternatives to be found that also could be promoted and acted on. Systems thinking might also, whenever appropriate, be used to both analyze and underpin the discussions held. The final deliverable will typically be some sort of a reader containing reviews of literature read and discussions held.