Become life-centered & regenerative in the work you love.
Life-Centered Design School
Life-centered design (LCD) is an actionable design approach that gives designers and other creatives the mindset, opportunity, and ability to include all life forms in their work and advocate for biological ecosystems and invisible communities. LCD transitions from creating value for the end user and shareholders to adding value for nature, communities, and the economy.
Our programs are available online, in nature, in the wild, and in hybrid formats.
Our mission is to promote a new design mindset and skill set that prioritises nature and underrepresented communities alongside traditional stakeholders in the design process.
“When we discovered Life-Centered Design in 2020, it transformed our lives, and we knew we had to share it with the world. After years of research, interviews, and deep exploration of the methodology and nature, we created this beautiful space where our growing community of passionate professionals learn together and share their experiences”
- Jeroen Spoelstra & Marce Xirinachs
Key blogs
The Designers’ Trail
October 16 - 18, 2025 Aínsa, Spain
After your visit to Barcelona Design Week and Service Design Disrupted, we take you to the Spanish Pyrenees for The Designer's Trail. Here, nature slows you down and gives clarity to think about your next moves as a designer.
Design is being disrupted, and so is the designer's career.
The Designer's Trail brings together designers reflecting on their design careers during two days of workshops, campfires, and silent walks. Mountain air, forest and rock become your co-designers for the weekend. We bring you back to Barcelona with a fresh new perspective on design and your work.
Paricipants & Clients
Over 1000 people joined our courses, workshops and retreats or used our tools and methods to create impact for nature, communities & organisations
What do participants think about our courses
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" I highly recommend this course to anyone wanting to make a positive impact in the world. It is transformative, enlightening, and highly collaborative. 100% worth it. I was part of the 2024 Cohort, and here, I found my people. " -
Maria del Pillar Porras Villareal - Freelance Sustainability Consultant
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"Completing the course really helped me broaden my perspective of design and provided the right tools to start applying this to the design thinking process. It's perfect timing to adopt this mindset in the current state of the world"
Lovisa Boberg - UX Researcher | Service Designer at Klarna
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“I haven't felt so excited in such a long time. This course is giving me challenges, giving me a new perspective and making me re-think my approach to my surroundings! Super happy to be part of this.”
Tatiana Chajin Cian - Service Design Manager at Fjord, Part of Accenture Song
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“I'm personally finding my path from human-centered design to life-centered design (HCD 👉 LCD), and I couldn't be more grateful to Jeroen Spoelstra for helping guide my way.”
Stu Monk - Lead Designer at Scotia Bank
Non-Human Personas
Together with our community we created more then
250 Non-human personas
Non-human personas are a way to foster an emotional connection with nature and non-human entities through scientific research, creativity, and imagination. They help us understand the needs and perspectives of non-human actants and create designs that reflect their realities.
Impact Mapping Strategies
We help you make positive impact for nature, communities & organisations.
The better you understand your ecosystem, the better you understand the impact your new product, service, and value proposition can have. Our impact mapping method is a key element of our Life-Centered Design approach.
Curious what we can do with your team and organization? Check out what we do at Unbeaten Studio, our parent company
Less design sprints, more design walks
With life-centered design, immersion, observation & conversation are crucial to establishing relationships with our natural environment and communities. We wish you more time for your design work with the Guide (PDF), which includes the following:
14 exercises to help you be more intentional with your design work
Access the LCD School WhatsApp Community for inspiration & connection
A framework to design with purpose
The Life-Centred Design Guide to Slow Down is an online PDF.
Discover our Life-Centered Design Guide to Slow Down.
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Slowing down allows you to reflect on what you are doing? And it opens up windows to design in another way
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We developed and collected 14 exercises to help you be more intentional with your design work.
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Did you know you can escape the double diamond and be more creative?
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Find your way! By slowing down you see things differently. You get a clear understanding of how you want to design