Education

We want to foster a community rather than an exchange of opinions. We have created this space and the associated channels to support meaningful interactions and opportunities for people to collaborate.

Next Workshops: 

Anti-Brief 3-Part Series:
11th of August 2025: Conversational Dimensions
8th of September 2025: Designing Dialogues
22nd September 2025: Re-Designing the Economy (Series 2)

LED Workshops: 

Anti-Brief Series: We have created three core workshops that we will host and iterate according to demand. Each workshop can be attended as a standalone session, but as they compliment and build on each other we recommend participating in all three.

1. Re-Designing the Economy:

The first workshop will help us to understand how deeply design and the economy are linked. The extractive economy changes not just design, but all aspects of life. What would change if we lived in an economy of care? … and most importantly, if we are all part of the big web of life, how can we use our skills to have a positive impact? We want people from all professions because design by itself is pretty useless, but design used for the right purposes and in the right way can make a huge difference.

2. Conversational Dimensions:

In the second workshop, we will teach you different visualisation techniques to spark systemic thinking and action. It will help you to gain new insights about your work or the work you do for others. We call this workshop “Conversational Dimensions” because a new visualisation is a new perspective that invites others to reflect with you. It is a conversational design.

3. Designing Dialogues:

In the third workshop, we are going deep into the transition from Communication Design to Conversation Design. If we want to effect change, we need to engage in dialogue. We need tools and techniques that turn one-directional communication into many-to-many conversations. Apart from various examples of how Conversational Design can strengthen democracy, Emily and Martin will share hands-on workflows that can convert consumers into collaborators.

LED Pioneers

“Joining this first session of the Anti-Brief Workshop Series was a great opportunity. As a behavioral economist investigating built environment systems, I discovered a diverse, transdisciplinary collective, eager to connect, discuss, and explore—revealing underlying commonalities throughout.”

Ladislav Nikolas Krutisch

“The session made me reflect on how we sometimes feed oppressive systems through design and reminded me we’re not meant to be heroes, but conscious participants. The Anti-Brief is a powerful lens to reconnect with why we design and to imagine alternatives rooted in care.”

Claudia Gallardo Landauro

“The anti-brief session was a welcome and much-needed invitation to pause and challenge. The deep codes gave language to something I’d been struggling to articulate – let alone address – and the shifts and anti-brief prompts gave me tools to start unpacking these ideas in new ways. “

Ellie Ashman

LED for Companies:

Questioning the everyday practice and seeding innovative approaches is at the heart of LED’s strategy. Hire us to give a workshop at your company.

LED Coaching: 

The Radicle Reading Room hired LED to help them think about their procedural and organisational Conversational Design. Partner with us if you would enjoy a conversational critical friend.

LED for Universities: 

We have been giving the Anti-Brief as an assignment to design students at the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg, Austria, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland, the Film Academy Ludwigsburg, Germany, BA-Nord – University of Cooperative Education, Germany, and ELISAVA, School of Design and Engineering, Barcelona, Spain. Contact us if you want us to give your students the Anti-Brief.