Welcome to your monthly inspiration of tools, tips, and resources to start life-centring your design practice. Choose just one tool or approach every New Moon and experiment with it for the following month to slowly expand your design to be more life-centred. This month's life-centred design mindset Welcome to our final newsletter for the year! I'll be taking a break from some LCD Lab activities to reflect on the busy year so far and to plan ahead. So I thought it would be appropriate to make...
7 months ago • 4 min read
Welcome to your monthly inspiration of tools, tips, and resources to start life-centring your design practice. Choose just one tool or approach every New Moon and experiment with it for the following month, as an easy, no-pressure way of slowly expanding your design to be more life-centred. This month's life-centred design mindset Sustainability is about having enough for each season, but being regenerative is about giving back to what we take from to ensure we don't just have enough, but...
8 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to your monthly inspiration of tools, tips, and resources to start life-centring your design practice. Choose just one tool or approach every New Moon and experiment with it for the following month, as an easy, no-pressure way of slowly expanding your design to be more life-centred. This month's life-centred design mindset Sustainability is about having enough for each season, but being regenerative is about giving back to what we take from to ensure we don't just have enough, but...
8 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to your monthly inspiration of tools, tips, and resources to start life-centring your design practice. Choose just one tool or approach every New Moon and experiment with it for the following month, as an easy, no-pressure way of slowly expanding your design to be more life-centred. This month's life-centred design mindset When it comes to sustainability and inclusivity, designers and businesses are constantly hearing about what they should and shouldn't to do less planetary harm and...
9 months ago • 4 min read
Welcome to your monthly inspiration of tools, tips, and resources to start life-centring your design practice. Choose just one tool every newsletter and experiment with it for the following month, as an easy way of slowly expanding your design to be more life-centred. Redesigning our co-existence with wilderness Firstly, apologies for this newsletter being a little late this month—I've just got back from working with students in Italy exploring how to redesign their university's relationship...
10 months ago • 5 min read
Welcome to your monthly inspiration of tools, tips, and resources to start life-centring your design practice. Choose just one tool every newsletter and experiment with it for the following month, as an easy way of slowly expanding your design to be more life-centred. This month's life-centred design mindset Having just got back from teaching ecosystem mapping at NOVA School Of Business and Economics in Lisbon, I thought this should be this month's mindset: "Own your ecosystem and give all...
11 months ago • 2 min read
Why is life-centred design important? While human-centred design has made some really wonderful differences for many humans, it was always meant to be sustainably-minded and fully inclusive. But it got hijacked by unrestrained capitalism that created a destructive business-focused way of living that dominated the world. 3 ways your everyday design and business actions may be contributing to the climate crisis and social injustice: Designing solely for human needs and profit, without...
11 months ago • 1 min read
If you missed the course tour webinar, join the next one on Monday 6th May Due to requests, I'm hosting another Course Tour webinar to dive deeper into what you can expect from the Life-centred Design Foundations Online Course. Join me for: 🌏 A brief introduction to life-centred design 🗺 Walkthrough of course modules and learning approach 🎉 Q&A session Webinar details 📅 Date: Monday, 6th May ⏰ Time: 6:30pm AEST 🌐 Where: Online/Zoom ⏱ Duration: 30 minutes Register for webinar See you there!...
11 months ago • 1 min read
Welcome to your monthly inspiration of tools, tips, and resources to start life-centring your design practice. Each issue is timed with the New Moon, symbolizing fresh starts and new opportunities: 🧠 A new life-centred design mindset ✏️ Tools and methods to apply the mindset 📚 A few good things to read or watch 📣 Updates about what I've been doing Choose just one tool every New Moon and experiment with it for the following month, as an easy, no-pressure way of slowly expanding your design to...
12 months ago • 4 min read