Author • Executive Director | LCI Education • TEDx Speaker • Radical Optimist • ChelseaFC #permissionistriumphhttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mujjvtw4qs2bIt took a role, a resignation, and a grief that arrived five months late before I understood why I had never let go of anything since. New essay, Late November, live now: https://adrianodiprato.substack.com/p/late-november?r=el1ld&utm_medium=ios #permissionistriumph02 Sep 2026 08:39 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mujjvtw4qs2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mtt5pmnqs22oCANCELLED THE APPOINTMENT Paid a colourist every six weeks for a decade to disagree with my own hair. New essay on what refusing to pay for it taught me about the economy of self-doubt: https://adrianodiprato.substack.com/p/unfiltered?r=el1ld&utm_medium=ios #PermissionIsTriumph24 Aug 2026 11:02 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtt5pmnqs22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mtmv3enqtk2o+ RED SUIT Someone called my suit vulgar thirty years ago. He wasn’t the last. Turns out tone policing was never actually about tone. New Substack essay, live now: https://adrianodiprato.substack.com/p/red-suit?r=el1ld&utm_medium=ios #permissionistriumph21 Aug 2026 23:11 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtmv3enqtk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3msrzsdxrgc2bFell alone on the Camino de Santiago. Phone lit up mid-fall: a former student replying to a birthday message I’d forgotten sending. Nobody schedules that. The plan was never the point. Being ready when it hit was. Twenty-Two Kilometres, out now: https://open.substack.com/pub/adrianodiprato/p/twenty-two-kilometres?r=el1ld&utm_medium=ios11 Aug 2026 06:54 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3msrzsdxrgc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3msfnwwxr2s2xSEVEN YEARS. My father never explained Italy to me. He just lived it, quietly, and left me to find it myself. New Substack essay on grief, inheritance, and finally being ready to go back: https://open.substack.com/pub/adrianodiprato/p/seven-years?r=el1ld&utm_medium=ios #PermissionIsTriumph06 Aug 2026 08:50 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3msfnwwxr2s2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3msfmetbbns2xAlfie Kohn’s 2024 essay on cognitive load theory names it exactly: CLT “offers no recognition of the learner as an autonomous agent.” I didn’t get there from research. I got there from a classroom, and thirty years of watching compliance become voice, agency, advocacy: www.alfiekohn.org/blogs/clt/06 Aug 2026 08:22 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3msfmetbbns2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3ms3v5a2h5227We’re hiring: Director of Studies Lead academic quality and shape how the next generation of designers & creatives learns. 📍 Collingwood, Melbourne | Full-time Details → https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4444182833/ Apply by 9am Thu 27 Aug.02 Aug 2026 11:32 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms3v5a2h5227https://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mrmpk45spc2eMy talk is now live: “We are educating imagination out of existence.” Obedience builds replicas. Imagination builds worlds. We’re teaching kids to be more like machines — when what the moment demands is proof they’re not. Watch here: https://youtu.be/EpmeylRPAJc?si=7WNAqZ2QSUPeTLtQ #permissionistriumph27 Jul 2026 10:42 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrmpk45spc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mrk2ouaws22iCONTACT IS NOT CONNECTION A friend from my 20s. A former student now running my old school. A woman met once in Johannesburg who still writes weekly. None lasted on feeling. Each lasted because someone kept writing back. New essay: https://open.substack.com/pub/adrianodiprato/p/connection?r=el1ld&utm_medium=ios #permissionistriumph26 Jul 2026 09:23 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrk2ouaws22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mrcps2w2hk2jNamed on The Educator’s Most Influential Educators 2026 list. Truth is, influence isn’t a solo act. It’s students who show up and do the work. Colleagues who believe creative education isn’t a nice-to-have. Full list: https://www.theeducatoronline.com/k12/best-in-education/te-most-influential-2026/28855623 Jul 2026 11:20 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcps2w2hk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mrcjta3xkk2aSix things happen to a person inside an institution: teaching, training, coaching, therapy, socialisation, formation. Only one fails unless you walk away capable of forming someone else. New Substack essay, Formation, live now: https://open.substack.com/pub/adrianodiprato/p/formation?r=el1ld&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #permissionistriumph23 Jul 2026 09:33 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcjta3xkk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mqyivstnn22yAlexander Stubb answered a question about happiness on Adam Grant's podcast, unscripted. What he said, I'd already written, six years earlier. Horizon is about hearing your own thinking spoken back to you by a stranger. New essay live now: https://open.substack.com/pub/adrianodiprato/p/horizon?r=el1ld&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #permissionistriumph19 Jul 2026 09:50 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqyivstnn22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mpavi5gmb22kHonoured to be joining ReimaginED Melbourne 2026 this October — among a galaxy of educators reimagining what’s next. My workshop: BELONGING BUILDS SUCCESS — Designing for Voice, Agency & Advocacy. Register: https://events.humanitix.com/reimagined-melbourne-2026 #ReimaginED202627 Jun 2026 07:06 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpavi5gmb22khttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mowzdl7j6s2qSo proud of LCIM alumni Leah Wilkinson & Valentina Barros 👏 Their capstone collection features in @harpersbazaarec’s editorial “The Shape of the Body.” From the studio to the pages of Harper’s Bazaar Ecuador — this is just the beginning. #DifferentByDesign23 Jun 2026 08:48 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mowzdl7j6s2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mowzbpl5sk2qWE’RE HIRING LCI Melbourne is hiring two Admissions Advisors on a 9-month fixed-term basis — a student-facing role guiding aspiring creatives through their admissions journey. Apply TODAY: https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-AU/lci/LCIMelbourne/jobs/22944 #DifferentByDesign23 Jun 2026 08:47 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mowzbpl5sk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mouhkzjtqc2nREVOLUTION Five certainties withdrawn at once: truth, power, equity, climate, work. Forecasters count four. The fifth has entered perception itself, through a pair of glasses. What can no longer be inherited must be formed, or it will be sold. New Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/adrianodiprato/p/revolution?r=el1ld&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true22 Jun 2026 08:25 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mouhkzjtqc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mocx5dybf22j+ The machine writes the essay, composes the music, drafts the building. On demand, for the price of a prompt. The one thing it cannot counterfeit is a life it was changed by. Creativity was never the dessert. It was always the infrastructure. https://open.substack.com/pub/adrianodiprato/p/infrastructure?r=el1ld&utm_medium=ios15 Jun 2026 09:16 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mocx5dybf22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mo237cveds2jCan the Real Creative Please Stand Up? A sold-out room, one big question: what does creativity mean when AI can produce more than ever? Thanks Dave King — the busywork is gone, what’s left is the real work. Bold thinking. Gut instinct. Proud to host TEDx Melbourne at LCI Melbourne.11 Jun 2026 20:34 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo237cveds2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mnrcsrdhrs2oTHRESHOLD The tools forming our young are owned, and ownership is never neutral. A harvest grown on enclosed ground is not flourishing. It is yield. Stand at the threshold. Ask whose land it is. New Substack essay: https://open.substack.com/pub/adrianodiprato/p/threshold?r=el1ld&utm_medium=ios #PermissionIsTriumph08 Jun 2026 08:56 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnrcsrdhrs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mnrbqi5eds2fSitting with the news of Professor Richard Scolyer AO’s passing. He and Georgina Long took melanoma from a death sentence to largely curable — thousands are alive because of it. But it’s his boundless love of life and selflessness I’ll remember. Thank you, Richard. With gratitude. Vale. 💙08 Jun 2026 08:37 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnrbqi5eds2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mn55ntbzf22mBack on Mathew Green's The Art of Teaching after 3+ years. We talked human-centred learning — education shouldn't just inform, it should transform — and the work at LCI Melbourne. 🎧 https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/ep-266-adriano-di-prato-game-changers-the-future/id1552506400?i=1000770387644 #TheArtofTeaching31 May 2026 08:31 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn55ntbzf22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mmo3iytobk24He knew it would take him. He fought anyway — not for himself, but for every family who’d face the Beast next. That was Neale Daniher. I had the honour of interviewing him in 2017. Today we lost him. But the army he built marches on. Vale, champ. 💙 #FightMND25 May 2026 08:43 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmo3iytobk24https://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mmo2v5zz6224A sentence carved into a wooden play structure. Four Marist sisters in gangland Guatemala City. Sixteen years of carrying what I saw there. Essay 21 of #PermissionIsTriumph is the moment I claim it: https://open.substack.com/pub/adrianodiprato/p/creativity?r=el1ld&utm_medium=ios25 May 2026 08:31 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmo2v5zz6224https://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mm4syl67yk2pSome places do not lift. They shift. Borobudur did that to me. The Great Wall. Florence. The boat pulling from Cinque Terre. My new essay is about what beauty actually does to the person who receives it. 🔗 https://open.substack.com/pub/adrianodiprato/p/what-beauty-does?r=el1ld&utm_medium=ios #PermissionIsTriumph18 May 2026 11:55 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm4syl67yk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mlkyakmdrk2bTonight, my words travelled from Melbourne to Jakarta — English on my lips, Bahasa on the screen. Congratulations to the LaSalle College Jakarta Class of 2026. The world is your classroom. Go create the future. 🎓11 May 2026 09:41 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlkyakmdrk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mlfrrf7skc25Yesterday, Sir David Attenborough turned 100 — eight decades behind the lens, a voice that has carried us from the rainforest canopy to the ocean floor. He has been a beacon for our planet and for every living thing upon it. The greatest ambassador life on Earth has ever known. Thank you, Sir David.09 May 2026 08:02 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlfrrf7skc25https://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3ml774ylnmk2yThe busywork is gone. What’s left is the real work. TEDxMelbourne x LCI Melbourne, 11 June. Dave King on creativity after AI. Bachelor of Business & Innovation — made for originals 🔗 https://melbourne.lcieducation.com/en/courses-and-units/bachelor-entrepreneurship-creative-industries06 May 2026 17:12 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml774ylnmk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3ml3vplzph22bAN EVENT WORTH HAVING. NPS +85. 10/10 average. 100% promoters. Grateful to the audience, fellow speakers and the TEDx BurleighHeads ED team for an inaugural night that proved education is ready for braver conversations. Listen: https://youtu.be/EpmeylRPAJc?si=cKr4EBU2UgtOGhbt #permissionistriumph05 May 2026 09:46 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3vplzph22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mkza7p3jbs27Seven years of keynotes. The data is right. The argument is sound. The situation has worsened. We do not have a knowledge crisis. We have a courage crisis. New Substack essay on #PermissionIsTriumph: https://adrianodiprato.substack.com/p/what-are-you-waiting-for04 May 2026 08:16 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkza7p3jbs27https://bsky.app/profile/adrianodiprato.bsky.social/post/3mjxxb4p5tk2u21 April. World Creativity and Innovation Day. Creativity is not a luxury sector or a soft skill. It is how we imagine our way forward — across art, design, fashion, business, and every table where the future is being decided. Make something today. #WCID21 Apr 2026 02:38 +0000at://did:plc:pfebwzhstd5kuadtnrpjbfth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxxb4p5tk2u