Life-centred Industrial Designer Course
$1,299.00 Original price was: $1,299.00.$999.00Current price is: $999.00.
Expand your human-centred industrial design to be more sustainable, regenerative, and inclusive with life-centred design
- 45 Lessons & 20 Activities
- 15 Instructional Videos
- 16 Unique Design Tools
- 10 Online Strategy Card Decks
- 12 Month Access
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Description
Expand your human-centred product design and business models to be more sustainable, regenerative, and inclusive.
You’ll redesign a product and business model of your choice to Do Less harm and More Good with:
- Circular and inclusive design
- Designing for animal welfare
- Behavioural design
- Non-human personas
- Regenerative design
- Designing for planetary goals
- Future thinking
- Metric setting
- LCD influence
Course Outline
| Module | Description | Lessons |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome | A warm welcome and introduction to the course. | 2 Lessons |
| About Life-centred Design | An introduction to:
|
3 Lessons |
| Prepare for your project | An introduction to the course’s life-centred design method.
With activities to set up the tools for your course project. |
3 Lessons (2 Activities) |
| STEP 1—Mind Map your Ecosystem | An introduction to systems thinking.
With an activity to guide you through mind-mapping your project’s ecosystem of interdependencies and impacts. |
3 Lessons (1 Activity) |
| STEP 2—Do Less Harm | Introductions to:
With 10 activities to guide you through optimising your product and business model to be as circular, sustainable, inclusive, and kind to animals as possible. |
13 Lessons (10 Activities) |
| STEP 3—Do More Good | Introductions to:
With 6 activities to guide you through identifying the more-than-human life your project impacts and innovative ways to support them and the planetary goals. |
11 Lessons (6 Activities) |
| STEP 4—Give the future a voice | Introductions to:
With 2 activities to guide you through exploring and mitigating unintended consequences of your life-centred design innovations, and setting data-based metrics to monitor impacts. |
5 Lessons (2 Activities) |
| STEP 5—Forge ahead | Creating a summary presentation of your project.
Learning ways to forge ahead in the world with your new learnings to develop credibility, gain buy-in, and create a positive impact. |
3 Lessons (1 Activity) |
| Reflect and celebrate | Reflecting on your journey, learnings, and what’s next. | 2 Lessons |
Course outcomes
Through self-paced sessions online, and guided by tutorial videos, 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
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.
