Introduction to Life-Centered Design
Start your journey as a designer by creating positive change for nature and society. Learn Life-Centered Design to map ecosystems and give voice to nature and invisible communities. This course will empower you to reflect on your design career and gain confidence in becoming sustainable and regenerative in your work.
Why is Life-Centered Design important?
As we prioritize environmental and social issues, we need design frameworks that reconnect us with nature and community. Life-Centered Design fosters innovation with ecological awareness and amplifies the voices of those often overlooked in our design work.
🌿 Design beyond endless growth: Design should prioritise sustainability over endless growth. By using our creative skills to restore nature and communities, we can create a lasting positive impact
🌍 Understanding the Ecosystem: System mapping reveals the overlooked needs of nature and invisible communities, providing a foundation for empathetic and conscientious design.
💡 Designing for Positive Impact: Incorporating nature's voices into your work enables you to create designs and businesses that have a positive environmental impact, tackling climate change, social injustice, and other pressing issues.
🦁 Become a stronger designer: Mastering Life-Centered Design enhances your resilience as a creative professional and connects you with a passionate community. You’ll gain perspective on design methods and become a more confident designer with clear direction.
Introduction to Life-Centered Design
Introduction to Life-Centered Design
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Course Attributes
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A New Mindset
Over the last few decades, design has been about sprinting, agility, and lean approaches for achieving quick business results. LCD is slower; it asks us designers to be more mindful of the various ecosystems involved in our work.
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What is Life-Centered Design?
Life-Centered Design unlocks a new set of principles from which you can design. It allows you to discover and reflect on how we can create a positive climate change and social impact.
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LCD Framework
With the Life-Centered Design Landscape, you can move freely between design phases and methods in a rhythm that suits the project. It helps you understand your ecosystem, co-create and bring your Design to life in a regenerative way.
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Applying LCD Today
Life-Centered Design is practical. And it's gaining momentum. More designers and organizations are adopting regenerative, circular, and life-positive methods to build a better world. You can be part of that shift too, with newly acquired skills you can implement right now.
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Create Your Manifesto
This course provides you with a space to reflect and develop your guiding design principles, which you can start using immediately. Having your own design guidelines helps you explain what you do and how you do it more effectively.
What’s inside
We have crafted four modules for you, each comprising 14 lessons. We curated 5 years of research and conversations with designers, indigenous leaders, change-makers, and educators from all over the world into a package full of knowledge, exercises, reflection, and fun.
1- Change your Mindset
Design is not just fast-paced and single-user oriented. Practising a slower, more considered pace of creating helps you to include multiple actors and their perspectives. You will learn how to adapt your mindset and way of working to design with nature and invisible communities in mind.. 🌿🌟
2- Life-Centered Design
Learn how to create value for all life forms with Life-Centered Design (LCD). In this module, we'll explain what Life-Centred Design is all about. We guide you through our framework, the LCD Landscape, space by space. We help you reflect on how you can apply the elements from the methods and exercises to your daily work. 🌱🌎
3- Our water bottle exercise
You'll learn best with something tangible & relatable. A thing you can experiment with at your kitchen counter or office desk. That is why we created the water bottle exercise for you. You will explore the impact of the water bottle, have a conversation with it and create design questions you might have never asked before. 🌿💡
4- Apply LCD with purpose
In the last module of the course, you will create your own manifesto, which will function as your guiding principles for your work as a designer. You will learn how to, among other things, use the manifesto to apply Life-Centered Design to your work, onboarding your colleagues, leadership and clients step-by-step to this new design approach. 🌱🌍💫
Introduction to Life-Centered Design
Introduction to Life-Centered Design
Get anytime access to our growing collection of classes, workshops, and exclusive content. New items added every month.
✺ Frequently asked questions ✺
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Creating an account on our website is your key to unlocking the course page. Here, you'll discover all the interactive content, in-depth theory, practical methods, tools…Everything you need for your learning journey. Your account also serves as your gateway to upcoming courses, guides, and exciting content that we have in store for you.
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The course is designed to be flexible and on-demand, allowing you to set your own pace. While the duration can vary based on your learning style and commitment, you can expect to spend approximately 12 hours to complete the course.
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No prior knowledge of Life-Centered Design is required. This course is designed to cater to both beginners and those familiar with the concept. We'll guide you from the basics to advanced concepts, ensuring that everyone can participate and benefit from the course.
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This course stands out for its blend of methodology, engaging exercises, and space for reflection on your professional career for every participant. It goes beyond traditional learning to transform your mindset and enhance your perception of the world around you.
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You can access the course for at least 12 months from the date of enrollment. In Life-Centered Design, we embrace the ever-changing nature of the world, just as nature itself is in constant adaptation. This means that we periodically add and update course content to keep it current and relevant, ensuring that your learning experience remains fresh and up-to-date. So, you can expect the course to evolve along with your journey in Life-Centered Design.
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Sure, for teams, we offer in-company packages. We can do an on-site workshop, virtual or a combination of both! Please write us an email to info@lifecentereddesign.school for further information.
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Certainly! As soon as you complete the course, we will promptly send you a certificate of completion via email.
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When we refer to "outdoors," we mean your natural surroundings. This course is designed to be accessible to individuals regardless of their location. Whether you reside in a city, village, town, forest, or mountainous region, you don't need to go to a specific natural spot to complete the course.