DESIGNING LIFE-CENTRED FUTURES
Learn futuring strategies as you design more sustainable, inclusive, and regenerative futures
Services
LCD Presentation + Q&A
Online—1 hr, $250 | Onsite—1 hr, $550
An introduction to designing for the future with foresight and speculative design, with a more-than-human lens to give all life a voice in the future.
1/2 Day Workshop—”Introduction to More Than Human Futures”
4 hrs | Online or onsite
A practical, hands-on introduction to designing for the future with foresight and speculative design, with a more-than-human lens to give all life a voice in the future.
Future Scouting Game
2 hrs | Online or onsite
Let me facilitate the fun and fast Future Scouting design activity game with your team to design products from the future that foster common social values, like education, justice, etc.
Examples
Exploring future governments that might include more than human ministers
Sydney, Workshop | August, 2024
What would a government that considers entities beyond humans look like? A fun critical thinking futures game with Speculative Futures Sydney.
A more-than-human future Sydney to help biodiversity with climate adaptation
Sydney, Talk & Workshop | November, 2023
I was honoured to be invited to the AdaptNSW 2023 Forum to present life-centred design as a toolkit to assist with adapting to climate change by exploring how human spaces could be redesigned to also nurture urban wildlife to support world biodiversity.
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Designing life-centred products in the future with non-human personas
Sydney, Panel Discussion | May, 2023
In May 2023, I ran a Life-centred Futures Workshop with Speculative Futures Sydney. The workshop was set in 2030, where participants designed with future tech, life-centred design, and a non-human persona to speculate a future life-centred version of an everyday product. In four teams, we explored a future where the world prioritises repairing and reusing over making new things by designing a future, life-centred version of an everyday, ubiquitous product that uses a lot of resources and creates a lot of landfill—mattresses.
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Adding a LCD lens to the “Futuring in Real Life” panel discussion
Sydney, Panel Discussion | November, 2023
Speaking on the Speculative Futures Sydney panel.
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Designing life-centred products for future needs with futurist students
Sydney, Course module workshop | 2021
Guest lecturing a class for the ECHOs Designing Futures course, I had a lot of fun guiding students through my Future Scouting Rapid Future Product Design method to design future values-driven products based on advanced technology. The method incorporates speculative design and life-centred design.
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Future Scouting—Playing the design activity game with futurists from around the world
Global Workshop | March 2020
In 2021 I was invited to facilitate Future Scouting® for the Speculative Futures Sydney Meetup with players from around the world. Future Scouting has since been played in the Netherlands, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Australia, and it received a Notable Design Education Initiative Award in the Core 77 Design Awards 2021.
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Take the lead
Lead the way by redesigning your products and business to reduce environmental and social harm and regenerate the people and environments your system relies on.
#2 Amazon Best Seller in Engineering Design, Dec ’22 (The Life-centred Design Guide)
“Super helpful tools for designers… I’ll be sharing them with the students.”
