LCD FOR SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES, & COLLEGES
Expand your human-centred curriculums with life-centred and more-than-human methodologies to future-ready your students
Introductory Lecture
Introductory Lecture
Book a dynamic lecture for your course to introduce life-centred, more-than-human, and regenerative design and how to include nature and vulnerable communities in projects.
- Introduction to life-centred design
- Introduction to non-human personas
- Case studies
Online—45 mins, Free
Onsite—1 hr, $550
Introducing LCD for RCA & Design For Good Academy
Global workshop | November, 2023
I was honoured to be invited to the Design For Good Academy to present life-centred design and non-human personas as a toolkit for innovating solutions in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with other speakers like Don Norman, and Daniel Christian Wahl.
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Introducing LCD to students of business
Sydney, Workshop | November, 2023
I was honoured to be invited as a Guest Speaker by RMIT to speak to Business Innovation students who had just completed a human-centred module, to introduce them to how life-centred design expands human-centred design, with a focus on ESG commitments and digital strategies.
Introducing LCD to students of responsible innovation
Sydney, Australia | October 2022
Invited as a Guest Lecturer by The Responsible Design for Innovation course at The University of Sydney, with Phil Gough, my on-site lecture introduced students to strategies for tackling complex problems with responsible, regenerative, and inclusive innovation for products, services and processes by fostering inclusion and regenerative design practices. The students created non-human and non-user personas, and explored how to use data to life-centre their designs.
Introducing values-driven design to futurist students
Sydney, Australia | 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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Judging student innovation
Sydney, Student Awards | Oct 2022
Hosted by the Innovation Hub, the Student Innovation Awards recognise University of Sydney students’ innovative solutions for real-world impact. I had the honour of helping judge the Planetary Impact submissions, projects that blew my mind with the potential to help the planet and society!
Introductory Workshop
Introductory Lecture
Half or full-day interactive sessions giving students a practical introduction to life-centred and more-than-human design and hands-on experience with innovative tools and approaches.
- Introduction to life-centred design and non-human personas, plus case studies
- Activities to choose from:
- Map a product’s more-than-human ecosystem
- Create a non-human persona
- More-than-human innovations
1/2 day—4 hrs
1 day—7.5 hrs
Online or Onsite
Introducing non-human personas and biomimicry to students in a forest classroom
Milan, Italy | Jun 2024
I was honoured to be invited by the Politecnico di Milano University in Milan, Italy, to support a week-long student assignment to redesign the relationship between the University and the neighbouring forest by teaching non-human personas and biomimicry.
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Introducing LCD and Ecosystem mapping to students and sponsors in Portugal
Lisbon, Portugal | April 2024
I was honoured to be invited to the NOVA School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, Portugal, to present life-centred design, and then to run a workshop with 44 participants to use ecosystem mapping to explore the environmental and social impacts of everyday and luxury products.
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Curriculum Consultation
Curriculum Consultation
Incorporate LCD elements into your courses to develop student capacity for practical, holistic, and regenerative ways of thinking, designing, and governing projects to address complex issues and contribute to systemic transformation.
- Curriculum Adaptation
- Teacher Training
Customised
Online or Onsite
Incorporating non-human personas into two curriculums
Sydney, Australia | 2023
I was invited to work with The University of Technology Sydney to incorporate Non-human personas in both the Centre for Compassionate Conservation and the Transdisciplinary Design School
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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.”
