About the LCD Lab
Do more planetary good and less harm
The Life-centred Design Lab is an independent project by Damien Lutz advancing modern design toward a more regenerative force by including nature and invisible humans in all design projects.
The Life-Centred Design Lab develops tools, approaches, and mindsets to empower designers, businesses, schools, and governments to reduce the environmental and social harm caused by modern design and development-focused ways of living, and to do more planetary good via human activities.
Since 2021, Damien Lutz has been developing life-centred design through research, experimental project work, and workshops, and established the Lab website in 2023.
Our commitments
We walk our talk!
Using our privilege and value to regenerate and heal, we apply LCD to our own products, business, and channels to foster the transition of modern design to be more sustainable, regenerative, and socially just by considering all peoples, all animals, and all planet.
Founder—Damien lutz
“I help designers, teams, and organisations create better futures by amplifying their ability to regenerate the world and reduce their planetary harm.”
A veteran UX/UI Designer, researcher, and writer, Damien has spent over a decade in design and has taught UX, futuring, and life-centred design.
Since 2017, Damien has scouted the fringes of design to develop ways to fully realise it as a superpower for good. He is the founder of two online design hubs—futurescouring.com.au and lifecentred.design—and authored three design guides—Future Scouting, The Life-centred Design Guide, and The Non-human Persona Guide.
Damien also co-foundered The Life-centred Design Collective and shares projects and insights on his Medium blog.
Take the lead
Life-centred design aligns designers and businesses with global goals, and gives them the skills to respond to today’s wicked problems in practical and measurable ways.
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