Our Unconventional Team
Life-centred Design Lab is a small, frugal, living experiment in balancing profit and planetary purpose.
The Lab not only experiments with how life-centred design can be applied to itself, but our model also challenges what a ‘team’ can be, combining nature and technology—how human creativity, ecological responsibility, and AI can work in alignment, and how that alignment can exist in a feedback loop with the design and business communities.
Damien Lutz
Founder, Designer, Teacher
Designer, researcher, and educator applying Life-centred Design across digital, industrial, and urban contexts — demonstrating what one person can build when business and practice are aligned with planetary responsibility.
Nature
Embedded Team Voice
Represented through an active commitment to engagement and a persona reflecting the three Life groups—people, animals, and environments—with planetary boundaries woven directly into decisions, tools, and workflow.
AI
Multidisciplinary Support
Used responsibly to support research, iteration, and innovation — while continually refining efficient, lower-impact ways of working.
Design & Business Community
Interconnected Team Actors
The Lab views the designers, students, and collaborators who apply, challenge, and evolve the framework as part of the team. Your participation creates a feedback loop, shaping the Lab and Academy as much as they support you, turning shared learning into collective momentum to inspire others.
“I’ve always seen design as a superpower for nurturing the planet and each other.
Since first encountering the emerging ideas of life-centred design in 2020, I knew I had found my design ikigai (that which brings value to the world and joy to self).
Through cross-disciplinary research, self-learning, and experimentation, I shaped a life-centred design approach that blends 12 practices. I published it in The Life-Centred Design Guide (2020) and have since evolved it through workshops and courses in Australia, Portugal, Italy, and Germany.
Now, my mission is to empower designers and decision-makers with life-centred superpowers to create sustainable and regenerative futures.”
Damien Lutz
Founder of LCD Lab
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