Did you know that design is one of the main enablers when working towards a circular economy?
We have created an intensive five-day workshop to discover and practice the Life-Centered Design approach and tools to design new Sustainable business models, products and services integrating the triple bottom line People, Planet, prosperity.
This hands-on course will guide you through the entire process, from understanding an eco-system of stakeholders and actors, discovering their un-covered needs and dependencies to create a sustainable solution – whether it is a process, a service, a product, or a business model.
You will learn how to combine System Thinking, Circular Design and FutureCasting tools to create Sustainable innovation.
During the week you will do research, create insights, prototype and test new sustainable solutions. Along the way you’ll learn how to think in a systemic way and how to use new tools to take back to your work. These tools will help you to:
By the end of the week, you will be ready to apply this knowledge to your own work and become an ambassador of Life-Centered Design inside your organization.
Lectures are spread throughout the workshop and are immediately followed by direct hands-on applications, research and prototyping, and individual and group coaching along the way.
Prerequisite Knowledge Needed
This workshop is open to everyone and no specific prerequisites are needed. Just come with an open mind, a curious approach and your hands ready to make things.
How Will You Learn?
The days of teaching are structured around three main phases of the Life-Centered Design process: Inspiration – Ideation – Implementation. We will start by an introduction on Sustainability, main definitions and principles.
Inspiration
Ideation
Implementation
Is this for you?
This workshop is open to everyone and no specific prerequisites are needed. Just come with an open mind, a curious approach and your hands ready to make things.
The workshop should be of value to anyone responsible for creating or delivering sustainable products and services.
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.
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