Planet Centric Design Toolkit & Workshops
17 methods that we mix, match and adapt for each project.
Try our Planet Centric Design Toolkit in your project or business
Workshops are now available to unlock the potential of your business
Let us help you or your team use our toolkit. We will work with you to customize the specific set and sequence of the tools that will drive the most valuable outcomes for your business in this moment.
Identify a new planet-centric line of business - What areas of opportunity surface when hidden connections are revealed?
Gain a holistic understanding of your impact - In what ways are your activities having unintended consequences for the planet?
Concept a new product or service - What are specific opportunities you can ideate? Examine your business from new vantage points.
“I liked that we all worked together and got involved and it was practical.”
Blue Earth Summit 2022 Workshop attendee.
“I liked providing solutions - thinking about the planet when designing a product.”
Blue Earth Summit 2022 Workshop attendee.
“It was very fluid and efficient between workshops. The discussion was also enjoyable.”
Blue Earth Summit 2022 Workshop attendee.
“I love it. This is like circuit training for workshops.”
How it works
Assess
Assess the structure of your business or life cycle of existing products, setting design priorities for each dimension of sustainability.
Planetary actors
Describe the needs and mindsets of the main individuals or groups who directly or indirectly affect or are affected by the project we are designing for.
Ecosystem map
Map the stakeholders and actors involved in your industry, business or project ecosystem, including their interactions and connections.
Problem reframe
Dig deep and understand what the real user problem you want to solve is. Reframe it into business opportunities.
Sustainability priorities
Looking at your industry / business / product / project - how do you rate the sustainability criteria?
Align
Align your business, people, culture and network with what the planet needs next, setting your own micro SDGs as actionable targets, and open up to the opportunities it brings.
Goal alignment
If you and your network all worked together in alignment, even the smallest change in direction would have a huge impact. Delve deeper into this method as an example of what you find in the full toolbox.
Envision
Develop a proposition that goes beyond your core business to offer wider planetary benefits.
Back to the future
Look back at the essence of your industry and how value has been created when the focus was not on infinite business growth. Get inspired and think about possible sustainable futures.
Ideas for planet-centric innovation
Describe how you could practically solve the identified problems and work towards our planetary goals. Think about products, services and features.
Planetary proposition
Articulate what your business and product provides to your customers as well as the value that can be delivered to society and the planet.
Business model for sustainability
Define how the business model behind your proposed new product or service will work, with environmental, social and economic sustainability as key factors.
Design
Create planet-centric products and services
Life cycle design
Think about product life cycle circularity and describe how each stage is geared towards sustainability on an environmental, social and economic level.
Technical sustainability check
Plan how your business solution will be implemented from a technical point of view to prevent harmful outcomes.
Brand purpose
Articulate the personality of your brand and the planetary message you want to communicate to the world.
Planet-centric touchpoints
Map the user interaction with your proposed product or service. Think about what features and processes might make the product or service more planet-centric.
Test
Apply long-term resilience thinking to products and services we develop - prototyping, testing and iterating in loops from the beginning
Ethical assessment
Explore what possible undesired consequences your proposed business, product or service might generate and create preventative solutions.
Sustainable futures
Identify how you can avoid any possible negative future impact. Challenge your assumptions about the future and anticipate change in a planet-centric way.
Design for all
Make sure most people can benefit from your planet-centric offering. Make sure they they can effectively access it, use it and trust it.
Measure
Build a sustainability roadmap for your business with actions and when they must be implemented, measuring progress throughout
Planetary roadmap part 2
Order the initiatives you identified on an implementation timeline, set metrics for sustainability and track progress.
Planetary roadmap part 1
Look at your short-term design priorities and at your planetary goals and define a set of initiatives to achieve those.
Our methodology applied to our work
