Lien De Ruyck

Life-centred design enables product designers and businesses of physical and digital products to consider the impacts of their products on all people, all non-humans, and all planet.

Studying in the metaverse has some shortcomings. Such as how to be inclusive of students with disabilities like hearing or vision impairment. Experts also say that metaverse addiction is a real possibility for children and adults. And for metaverse education to be mainstream and successful, it must become easier for families to acquire virtual... See more

The Circular Economy—Designing for longevity and reuse of materials beyond the first use

Online learning just became mainstream, and now a handful of startups have started reimagining the future of education once again in India by working to integrate the metaverse into everyday learning

Industrial Design operates within a capitalistic system. Industrial Designers create things to be made, purchased, and used by consumers. In the end, this exchange most frequently benefits the corporations and other entities who hold power…

Regenerative Rising is devoted to elevating and forwarding regenerative principles that expand the capability of people to lead from a living systems worldview.

Instead of making things that add value back to a system, our current linear economic model extracts and processes raw materials from nature, produces pollution and returns negative externalities back to the planet in the form of waste — which then affects all living things in negative ways. Externalities are things not accounted for in the current... See more