A LIFE-CENTRED DESIGN PROJECT

How might urban forests and human spaces coexist?

The LCD Lab was invited to Politecnico University in Milan to provide tools and guidance to students designing coexistence between their university and a neighbouring forest

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A LIFE-CENTRED DESIGN PROJECT

How might urban forests and human spaces coexist?

The LCD Lab was invited to Politecnico University in Milan to provide tools and guidance to students designing coexistence between their university and a neighbouring forest

Redesigning The Line

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About the project

Forest La Goccia is a spontaneous urban forest in Milan reclaiming an abandoned industrial site, and now absorbs more carbon than London’s Hyde Park.

The Forest’s neighbour, Politecnico University needs more space for more students and is expanding.

Fabio Di Liberto, a professor of Politecnico for 17 years, invited the Life-centred Design Lab to support a 5-day design workshop with the students from within the forest and the classroom to explore how the university’s expansion could be redesigned to respect the needs of both the university and the young forest.

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Design in Nature for Coexistence Workshop Kit on a table

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	This site's hosting is green	Energy used by the web hosting servers is offset by 3 times as much renewable energy returned to the grid
	We're planting trees! The number in the site's top bar shows how many we've planted	To regenerate trees used to make our books, we donate a percentage of printed book sales to onetreeplanted.org
	Page CO2 emissions Shown for high-traffic pages only	Sustainable web strategies are used to reduce page load emissions. The current industry standard is 0.8g/page view—all lifecentred.design pages aim to be less than the standard
	Page accessibility rating Shown for high-traffic pages only	Pages are designed for accessible use and rated out of 100

	This site's hosting is green	Energy used by the web hosting servers is offset by 3 times as much renewable energy returned to the grid
	We're planting trees! The number in the site's top bar shows how many we've planted	To regenerate trees used to make our books, we donate a percentage of printed book sales to onetreeplanted.org
	Page CO2 emissions Shown for high-traffic pages only	Sustainable web strategies are used to reduce page load emissions. The current industry standard is 0.8g/page view—all lifecentred.design pages aim to be less than the standard
	Page accessibility rating Shown for high-traffic pages only	Pages are designed for accessible use and rated out of 100

A LIFE-CENTRED DESIGN PROJECT

How might urban forests and human spaces coexist?

A LIFE-CENTRED DESIGN PROJECT

How might urban forests and human spaces coexist?

Redesigning The Line

About the project

Facilitate your own life-centred design workshop in nature

Power Ups

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Books

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