On October 28th, Jeroen Spoelstra and Alejandra Ramón facilitated the first LCD urban workshop as part of the VII International Design and Business Forum. They led twelve people working in three teams on their first approach towards a sustainable transformation.

I first read about Non-human personas via Monika Sznel, who developed a non-human persona from the Baltic Sea and Damien Lutz, who developed several Life-Centered Design tools. I used their work as inspiration for creating the Unbeaten Studio version when we made our Life-Centered Design in Action workshop. Recently we had the opportunity to create a Non-human persona about a beautiful mountain lake Ibón de Plan.

As designers, we have to reinvent the way we live in relationship to the natural and human world around us. We need to design new connections with each other, with our food, our work and most importantly, life on earth around us. This start with the realisation that humans are part of nature.

After these five books, you have a better understanding of Life Centered Design. Chris Do said in one of the courses I followed, "Read & study the 5 key books on the topic you want to be known for." I didn't find 5 books on Life Centered Design. Instead ….

On September 15th, we organised a Life-Centered Design co-design session at the Kantoor Karavaan in MijnStadstuin in Amsterdam. In this blog you can read about what we learned about Life-Centered Design

Why life centered? Well it is no longer enough to just focus on humans. We need to think about the planet and it’s eco systems we live in.