Life-centred design education for digital, industrial, and urban designers
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For Digital Professionals
What is Life-centred Digital Design?
Learn how Sustainable UX and Regenerative Digital Business reduce planetary harm and do more good.
What is Sustainable UX?
Learn a full suite of Sustainable UX Design strategies to fight climate change and inequality.
What is Low-carbon UX?
Learn this core aspect of Sustainable UX to design low-energy digital experiences that produce less carbon emissions.
For Industrial Professionals
What is Life-centred Industrial Design?
Learn the basics of Life-centred Design, Sustainable and Circular Design, and Regenerative Business.
How do I apply Life-centred Industrial Design?
Learn a full suite of circular, inclusive, and regenerative product and business design strategies.
How do I apply Life-centred Industrial Design?
Live classes for learning a full suite of circular, inclusive, and regenerative product and business design strategies.
“My goal was new tools for service portfolio – I got that but feel I learned so much more… A lot of inspiration for changing my business”
Manuela Risch, Product Discovery and Innovation Consultant
“I enjoyed the activities and deep dive into product design and material life cycles, considering the impacts on the natural world”
Rebecca Dawson, Sustainability and Adaptation Worker
“The approach brilliantly adopts language that marketers and service designers already use”
Colin Jowell, Principal at Good Behaviour
What is life-centred Design?
Life-centred design expands human-centred design to include the wellbeing of all life—all people, animals, environments, and the living systems that support us.
The planetary problems with design
Most design still prioritises human convenience and short-term value, while ignoring its wider impacts. This contributes to ecological breakdown, growing inequality, and the ongoing overshoot of Earth’s limits.
The problems with design education
Design is often taught in isolation from the systems it affects. Speed, growth, and optimisation are rewarded, while environmental limits, non-human life, and long-term consequences are treated as secondary or out of scope.
Why life-centred design is important
Life-centred design brings nature, vulnerable communities, and planetary limits into everyday design decisions. Design shifts from minimising harm to actively supporting regenerative outcomes, reconnecting human activity with the living systems that sustain it.
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Design Branches
What are non-human personas?
Just like personas created for target customers, non-human and non-user personas give voice to impacted environments, animals, and communities
What is Interspecies Design?
How to consider the needs and engagement of animals in design, to champion a multi-species way of living on the planet
What is Biomimicry?
Design that draws from nature’s 3.8 billion years of evolving life to discover forms, function, and systems as sustainable design solutions
What is Futuring?
Designing research-based future scenarios to shape the futures we want
