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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 22h

THREE WORDS I gave her eulogy and spoke about her to everyone in the room except her. Twenty-two years on, I have written the words I never said. New Substack essay, live now: adrianodiprato.substack.com/p/three-word... #PermissionIsTriumph

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Boys aren't the problem. They're being targeted by an algorithm selling a counterfeit masculinity. Schools must offer a better story. Building Schools for Boys by Prof Phil Cummins & David Atkinson shows how. Get it right and the world inherits good men: www.amazon.com.au/Building-Sch...

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Six of our recent graduates. One book. 70+ emerging designers from six Melbourne institutions. FOLIO launches Mon 19 Oct, 6–7pm at Readings Carlton. Free, registration required: mfw.melbourne.vic.gov.au/event/folio-... Part of Melbourne Fashion Week. #DifferentByDesign #MFW

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In 2017 I spent fourteen days in Cambodia keeping a daily record of ten young men becoming better people. I called the book Living Hope, because that is what they were. New essay, Sixty-Eight Pages, live now: adrianodiprato.substack.com/p/sixty-eigh... #permissionistriumph

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A bamboo tree spends five years underground before it grows thirty metres in six months. A boy scores a goal in ninety. Both are flourishing. My new essay, Ninety-Minutes, live now: adrianodiprato.substack.com/p/ninety-min... #permissionistriumph

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HEXPO 2026 landed at LCI Melbourne today 🔥 140+ founders, innovators and big thinkers in the building. This is what industry-connected learning looks like. #DifferentByDesign #HEXPO2026

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It 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: adrianodiprato.substack.com/p/late-novem... #permissionistriumph

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

CANCELLED 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: adrianodiprato.substack.com/p/unfiltered... #PermissionIsTriumph

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

+ 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: adrianodiprato.substack.com/p/red-suit?r... #permissionistriumph

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Fell 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: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod...

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

SEVEN 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: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #PermissionIsTriumph

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Alfie 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/

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

We’re hiring: Director of Studies Lead academic quality and shape how the next generation of designers & creatives learns. 📍 Collingwood, Melbourne | Full-time Details → www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44... Apply by 9am Thu 27 Aug.

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My 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: youtu.be/EpmeylRPAJc?... #permissionistriumph

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

CONTACT 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: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #permissionistriumph

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Named 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: www.theeducatoronline.com/k12/best-in-...

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Six 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: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #permissionistriumph

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Alexander 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: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #permissionistriumph

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Honoured 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: events.humanitix.com/reimagined-m... #ReimaginED2026

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

So 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. #DifferentByDesign

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

WE’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: jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-AU/lci/LC... #DifferentByDesign

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

REVOLUTION 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: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod...

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On the upheaval we have been living inside for a decade, and the one ground it cannot take

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

+ 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. open.substack.com/pub/adrianod...

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Can 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.

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

THRESHOLD 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: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #PermissionIsTriumph

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Sitting 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. 💙

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Back 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. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e... #TheArtofTeaching

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

He 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. 💙 #FightMND

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A 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: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod...

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Some 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. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #PermissionIsTriumph

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Tonight, 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. 🎓

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Yesterday, 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.

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The 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 🔗 melbourne.lcieducation.com/en/courses-a...

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

AN 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: youtu.be/EpmeylRPAJc?... #permissionistriumph

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Seven 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: adrianodiprato.substack.com/p/what-are-y...

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

21 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. #WCID

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The obstacle to creative life is almost never a lack of talent. It is a lack of authorisation. And the authorisation we are waiting for almost never comes from outside. My latest Substack essay on what it costs to claim permission. youtu.be/EpmeylRPAJc?... #PermissionIsTriumph

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

ONE QUESTION. Are we educating imagination out of existence? My #TEDxBurleighHeadsED talk is now live. If it resonates, share it with a teacher, a parent, or a young person who’s been told to stay inside the box: youtu.be/EpmeylRPAJc?...

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

THE BOX WAS NEVER THE DESTINATION. My TEDx talk is now live. Twelve minutes on why creativity must be treated with the same primacy as literacy and numeracy. The future will not arrive fully formed. It will be authored. By the audacity of human imagination: youtu.be/EpmeylRPAJc?...

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

POSSIBILITY HAS NO CEILING. Imagination is not a talent. It is an act of refusal. I carried that for years. It took a stage in Burleigh Heads to say it out loud. New Substack on what we lose when we educate imagination out of existence: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #PermissionIsTriumph

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

THE AUDACITY TO ACTUALLY DO IT First TEDx stage. Sold-out room. Gold Coast. Something happens when the words you’ve carried for months finally have to leave you. You stop performing. You just speak. I left quietly changed. #TEDxBurleighHeadsED

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

THE CONVERSATION NEVER ENDED Former Game Changers podcast guests — on stage and in the audience at #TEDxBurleighHeadsED. The most powerful thing a conversation can do is outlive the room it started in. #GameChangers

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I DIDN'T EXPECT TO GET EMOTIONAL. A photo of me as a child hit the screen. I broke. But a sold-out room at #TEDxBurleighHeadsED held the silence for me. The talk was called The Audacity of Human Imagination. But the audacity, in that moment, was theirs. That is connection.

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

THE STAGE IS SET. Thursday. Gold Coast. A sold-out room full of people who believe education should build imaginers — not instruction-followers. That's the audacity I'm bringing to #TEDxBurleighHeadsED.

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This #Easter, stop performing the faith and start inhabiting it. Let the streets be what they are — loud, fractured, sacred, impossible — and find, somewhere inside that honest confrontation, the face you have been afraid to meet. New: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #permissionistriumph

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

ONE WEEK. Seven days until I walk onto the TEDx stage. Seven days until an idea that’s been building for years meets a room full of people ready to hear it. Gold Coast. April 9. Sold out.

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Grace is the countermovement to everything that would have us harden. The Discipline of Grace — my latest Permission Is Triumph essay — is live on Substack. On restraint, generosity, and the moral courage of remaining human under pressure: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod...

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that does not come from overwork. It comes from remaining open. The Cost of Encounter — my latest Permission Is Triumph essay — is live on Substack. Link in bio open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #PermissionIsTriumph

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Education built corridors. One door in. One door out. The maze says something different. No single starting line. No one correct path. Some journeys loop back. That is not failure. TEDxBurleighHeads ED asked the harder question. On 9 April, we step in.

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Adriano Di Prato @adrianodiprato.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Encounter doesn't fail because it is weak. It fails when we stop designing for it. When Encounter Fails — is live. On the distance between what institutions profess and what they actually reward. Now on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #PermissionIsTriumph

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