LIFE-CENTRED DESIGN
LIFE-CENTRED DESIGN
Did you know that design is one of the main enablers when working towards a circular economy?
Did you know that design is one of the main enablers when working towards a circular economy?
As more industries and sectors recognize the need to shift to circular economies, the demand for skills to facilitate this shift has rapidly grown. Life-Centred Design is an intensive five-day course that gives participants access to those skills, and opportunities to practise them on realistic problems. We will introduce you to a fast, effective, and broadly applicable design toolkit for researching strategic innovation opportunities and prototyping service concepts.
Our focus is on nuanced applications specific to CIID’s design practice with an emphasis on tools and techniques for Sustainable innovation, all applied through learning by doing. This hands-on course will guide you through the process of designing new sustainable business models, products and services. It begins with understanding an ecosystem of stakeholders and actors, discovering their hidden needs and dependencies, and culminates in a sustainable solution which integrates the triple bottom line of People, Planet, and Prosperity.
Prerequisites
No specific prerequisites are needed, other than an open mind, a curious approach, and hands that are ready to make things.
How you’ll learn
We’ll start with an introduction to sustainability, main definitions and principles, then move on to specific skills structured around three main phases of the Life-Centred Design process: Inspiration – Ideation – Implementation. The Inspiration phase includes research planning and fieldwork, trends and signal hunting, and analysis techniques such as needs mapping and actor cards. The Ideation phase covers opportunity finding, large-volume idea generation, and idea prioritisation and refinement. Finally, the Implementation phase includes concept mapping, co-creation, and experience prototyping and testing.
What you’ll learn
What to Bring
Irene is a service designer with Italian and Bulgarian roots, currently based in Paris. Her expertise spans design across various domains, from systemic thinking, product to service and interior design, graphic facilitation and illustration. She currently blends these skills in projects for the French public institutions that address social and environmental challenges in the sectors of health, education and housing.
Passionate about frugal interior design, she dedicates her free time transforming homes and offices into more functional, pleasant and intentional spaces, always starting by repurposing imaginatively what is at hand.
Christine leads Sustainability for Song France, Belux and Netherland and is part of the Sustainability Studio in charge of the Global Sustainability learning and training program. She also teaches the Life Centered Design approach which integrates system thinking, circular design and Future Casting tools to create sustainable innovation.
Christine has over 25 years of international business experience working on strategic design programs. She has held creative leadership roles at Fjord Paris & Berlin, Frog Design Milano and Sapient Boston – as well as her own consulting company, Design Strategy Lab.
Throughout her career, Christine has worked for numerous international clients across a broad range of industries in the US and Europe.
Based in the South of France, on weekends you can find her sailing around Antibes or hiking in the Mercantour National Park. She also has a passion for olive trees and is working on improving her own olive oil every year.
