Media & Awards
My work as a pioneer in Life-centred Design, and my thought leadership in sustainable design and futures thinking, has been recognised across the industry—referenced in design magazines, sustainable design white papers, toolkits, and newsletters.
I’m also honoured to have been interviewed by Thorsten Jonas and Leyla Acaroglu for their podcasts, and to have picked up a few awards along the way.
Interviews
“Sustainable UX” Podcast Interview | Germany
Interspecies & More-than-human Design
“For this episode, we were joined by Damien Lutz from Sydney, Australia, one of the most prominent voices and drivers of life-centred design as well as the author of The Life-centred Design Guide and The Non-human Persona Guide.”
“Why Is It Like That?” Podcast Interview | Australia
Life-centred Design & Sustainable UX
I was honoured to be invited for an interview by one of my sustainability heroes, Leyla Acaroglu, on her new podcast “Why Is It Like That?”, to chat about the need for including more than humans in design.
“Nova SBE Innovation Ecosystem” Interview | Lisbon, Portugal
Life-centred Product Design Innovation
Invited by NOVA School of Business in Portugal to speak and workshop with corporate partners and students, I was also interviewed about the importance of integrating non-human personas into design processes, fostering regenerative practices, and making a positive impact by giving back to our planet.
Features & Recognition
IDEIA Magazine | Portugal
Life-centred Design & Designing Futures
I was interviewed about my Life-centred Design Lab and my sustainable futures work, and received a four page feature in Ideia Magazine.
Interface’s Life-centred Design White Paper | Worldwide
Life-centred Design, Non-human Personas, Sustainable Futures
As a pioneer themselves in design and sustainability, Interface featured my Life-centred Design Guide, quotes, and Holistic Futures Wheel in their life-centred design white paper for architects & designers.
Design Management Network | Japan
Life-centred Design, Non-human Personas, Sustainable Futures
DMN (Design Management Network, Japan) featured a translation of my “Life-centred Design” article in their member’s program for Japanese organisational and business innovation.
Curiously Green Newsletter | Worldwide
Sustainable UX, Life-centred Style Guides, AI
Curiously Green Newsletter, created by Tom Greenwood, sustainable UX pioneer and author of “Sustainable Web Design”, featured two of Damien’s articles.
- TOOL: “Sustainable UX Buddy↗” tool to help designers choose low-energy solutions as they design
- ARTICLE: “An inclusive and planet-friendly digital style guide ↗”—how to embed Sustainable UX into design style guides to accelerate its full adoption and impact
- ARTICLE: “Will AI eat human creativity alive? ↗”—exploring the impact of AI agents on creative professionals
“Design Declare’s” planet-focused design toolkit | Worldwide
Sustainable & Regenerative Service Design, Digital Design, & Industrial Design
Design Declares shares the LCD Lab’s resources in their Design Declares Toolkit, helping designers, design studios, agencies and institutions to reimagine, rebuild and heal our world.
Learn Biomimicry’s “Life-centred Biomimicry Design” Article | Worldwide
Biomimicry in Life-centred design, Sustainable UX, and More-Than-Human Urban Design
Learn Biomimicry, pioneers of Biomimicry and designing with nature’s intelligence, based their “How to Apply Life-Centred Design To Biomimicry” approach on my life-centred design framework, sustainable UX concepts, and More-Than-Human urban design teaching.
United Nations Futuring Peace Initiative | Worldwide
Sustainable Futures, Conflict Diffusion, Design Fiction
My Treaty of One Heart design fiction was a semi-finalist in Futuring Peace 2020—a competition calling for designers and futurists to create speculative artefacts that evoked novel futures of how to better sustain peace, run by the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA)
My conflict diffusion app concept, based on syncing citizen breathing with the heart beats of the leaders at conflict was also featured in Design Whine online magazine.
“I just read Future Scouting and it’s on my top 5 recommendations list”
—Phil Balagtas↗, Founder of the Design Futures Initiative
Awards
Notable Design Education Initiative Award
Core 77 Design Awards 2021
“To help steer humanity toward a better tomorrow, you—a Future Design Scout—will be sent forward in time to design with future technologies.” Future Scouting received a Notable Design Education Initiative Award in the Core 77 Design Awards 2021.
e-Book Cover Design Award, 2019↗
“The Book Designer” Book Cover Awards
The cover I designed for my sci-fi novel, The Lenz, won the e-Book Cover Design Award for December, 2019.