Hi, I’m Damien!
Life-centred Design Pioneer & Teacher, Multi-disciplinary Designer, Author, Speaker
A Sydney-based Multi-disciplinary Designer, I develop new design tools and teach life-centred design to students, designers, and professionals so their designs and businesses do less planetary harm and more good.
Teaching and Speaking
From Australia
IN-PERSON & ONLINE—I’ve designed and facilitated life-centred design and futuring workshops for design students, design teams, and corporate and climate professionals, and designed and facilitated my Life-centred Design online courses.
AUSTRALIA-WIDE ONLINE—I’ve taught UX Design & Research Fundamentals for Harness Projects, mentoring up to 12 new students over 3 months about research and problem framing to wire-framing, design, testing, and presenting.
From Europe
LISBON, PORTUGAL—I was invited by NOVA School of Business and Economics to introduce Life-centred Design, Ecosystem Mapping, and Non-human Personas to students and corporate professionals.
MILAN, ITALY, 2025—I was honoured to be invited by Politecnico University in Milan to co-facilitate Professor Di Liberto’s 5-day workshop, “Designing From A Plant’s Perspective”, with and design students using non-human personas and biomimicry tools from my Life-centred Design Lab.
MILAN, ITALY, 2026—I was honoured to be invited back to Politecnico University to design and facilitate my own 5-day workshop, “Designing A More Than Human Milan”, with design students using non-human personas and ecosystem tools from my Life-centred Design Lab.
Industry Recognition
My life-centred design and futures work was featured in Ideia Magazine, Portugal
Design For Good recognised The Life-centred Design Guide—“This book stands as a remarkable resource in our field”
My Future Scouting Game received a Notable Design Education Initiative Award in the Core 77 Design Awards 2021.
My cover design for my sci-fi novel The Lenz was the December 2019 winner of the e-Book Cover Design Award
I acknowledge the Gadigal people as the traditional custodians of Sydney and thank them for their knowledge.
I support equality that unites the community.
I support sustainable product design by regenerating the materials of my books.
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