Life-centred Design Foundations Live Course
Original price was: $1,499.00.$1,299.00Current price is: $1,299.00.
Learn how to expand your human-centred design to be more sustainable, regenerative, and inclusive with life-centred design
- Live design sessions online
- 6 x 2.5hr sessions over 6 weeks
- Group and Instructor feedback
- Life-centred Design Toolkit
- Certificate
Starts – Coming soon
Description
Learn how to expand your human-centred design to be more sustainable, regenerative, and inclusive
You’ll learn the foundations of life-centred design by redesigning a product of your choice to Do Less Harm and innovating its business to Do More Good.
Course Outline
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| Week 1—Map your ecosystem | A warm welcome and introduction to the course.
An introduction to systems thinking through mind-mapping your project’s ecosystem of interdependencies and impacts. |
| Week 2—Do Less Harm | An introduction to Circular Design, Designing for Animal Welfare, Inclusive Design, Behavioural Design, and Product Lifecycle Mapping.
Activities to guide you through optimising your product and business model to be as circular, sustainable, inclusive, and kind to animals as possible. |
| Week 3—Give Nature A Voice | An introduction to creating non-human and non-user personas to give voice to the underrepresented lifeforms impacted by your project. |
| Week 4—Do More Good | An introduction to using non-human personas and regenerative Design to innovate your project to shift from taking to caretaking for the lifeforms it impacts. |
| Week 5—Give the future a voice | An introduction to Futures Thinking and setting data-based metrics to respect the needs of future life. |
| Week 6—Align with the world | An introduction to Sustainable Development Goals and Pluriversal Values and how to use them to innovate your project to support them. |
| Week 7—Forge Ahead | Creating a summary presentation of your project and learning ways to forge ahead in the world with your new learnings to gain buy-in and create a positive impact. |
Course outcomes
Through live design sessions online, you’ll learn how to:
- Map the ecosystem of your product and business
- Redesign your product to be more circular, sustainable, and inclusive
- Identify the environments, animals, and invisible humans impacted
- Apply non-human and non-user personas to regenerate the world you impact
- Connect to Sustainable Development Goals and Pluriversal values and innovate ways to support them
- Use Futures Thinking to explore unseen consequences and set metrics
- Present your life-centred design project as an engaging and inspiring case study
Includes:
- 7 weekly online live sessions
- Miro workspace and Slack channel
- Toolkit and Resources
- Max 8 participants for quality learning
- Certificate on Submitted Completion
- Weekly group and teacher feedback
Who is this for?
For digital, industrial, and urban designers—The inherent systems thinking in non-human personas helps all designers and innovators zoom out to see the bigger picture and innovate business models and user/citizen behaviours. Even digital designers find this learning expands their skills and career opportunities.
For sustainability and climate professionals—Give your environmental and social goals more life to more deeply engage the empathy of the organisation and decision-makers.
For innovators and coaches—Inspire and guide your clients and students to expand their human profit-focused goals to include the needs of all life and develop strategies to support existing regulatory models.
