A LIFE-CENTRED DESIGN WORKSHOP
Do Less Harm &
More Good
With Design
Learn how to transform your projects into healthier and more regenerative parts of their greater ecosystem by using ecosystem mapping and non-human/non-user personas
Overview
You want your business and products to become a healthy part of the planetary ecosystem, one that gives back to what it takes from and regenerates the world.
Join us for a lifecentred.design session in which you’ll learn how to map the ecosystem of your activities to identify the parts of nature and invisible humans impacted.
In this 5-hour workshop, you’ll learn how to create an ecosystem map to identify and leverage points for life-centred change. And we’ll enlist the use of non-human and non-user personas to give nature and invisible humans a voice as you innovate ways to do more good.
The output of these strategies can support ESG commitments and complement existing for-purpose strategies.
Key Features
1.
Map your ecosystem and impacts
2.
Identify non-humans and non-users
3.
Connect and empathise
4.
Innovate and regenerate
Ecosystem mapping
This workshop aims to teach you how to map the greater ecosystem that your projects are a part of, to then identify the environments, animals, and vulnerable humans impacted.
Non-human personas
You’ll get to create and experiment with personas to give your non-humans and non-users a voice in design and decision-making and learn how to innovate for their needs.
Outcomes & takeaways
- Ecosystem Mapping—How to map the ecosystem of products, services, businesses and urban places, and their impacts on the world
- Non-human Personas—How to create non-human and non-user personas
- Use non-human and non-user personas to innovative regenerative and sustainable solutions
- Client method—An ecosystem mapping and non-human persona method to introduce to clients
- Complete toolkit
Foster a safer and fairer world
Benefit from 2 years of knowledge
With exclusive insights from around the world
Giving you a solid point-of-difference
Who is this for?
This workshop spans design and business innovation, and how they are co-dependant, so it is suited for both designers and business decision-makers, of all ages and experience levels.
- Industrial designers, urban designers, architects, and teams—The design strategies include systems thinking and behavioural design to help designers zoom out to see the bigger picture and innovate solutions from new business models, non-human/non-user needs, and enabling supportive user/citizen behaviour
- Product owners, Business Owners, Decision-makers—The innovation strategies include exploring new business models based on giving back to the systems they take from and collaborating with others to shift from being just takers to becoming inspiring caretakers
Meet your facilitator
Damien Lutz
A veteran UX/UI Designer, researcher, and writer, Damien has spent over a decade in design, and since 2017 he’s scouted the fringes of design for ways to fully realise it as a superpower for good.
2021
– Produced the Future Scouting speculative design game, book, and hub to help designers invent things from the future to guide today’s decisions.
2022
– Produced The Life-Centred Design Guide, hub, framework, and toolkit to expand human-centred design to reduce its impact on the world.
– Lectured and workshopped with students at Sydney University about non-human/non-user personas and using data to inform life-centred design innovation
2023
– Damien produced The Non-human Persona Guide, method, and toolkit in 2023 to give nature and vulnerable humans a voice.
– Worked with University Technology Sydney to incorporate non-human personas into curriculums
– Presented and workshopped with climate professionals at AdaptNSW 2023
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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.”
