‘Our research helps designers to excel’
STBY elaborates on the research behind the WDCD Clean Energy Challenge
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‘Our aim is to empower design communities worldwide’
WDCD Clean Energy Challenge puts focus on five world cities
Should we forbid ads that contribute to climate change?
Do The Green Thing wants debate on servicing brands that cause climate change
What Design Does To Counter Violence Against Women
1 in 3 women experience violence in their lifetime; what do designers do to end it?
What does surprise look like?
Self-commissioned research by Studio Hellicar into human expression
‘We’re creating the future of fabrics’
Suzanne Lee (Modern Meadow) announces launch of bio-leather in coming year
Freitag gives animators ‘tarp blanche’
Animation studios produce visual interpretation of the Freitag story
New and noteworthy books
Athenaeum Bookstore’s selection of relevant reads for the WDCD community
Piles of information for a sustainable lifestyle
‘This is a good guide’ is filled with tips for a conscious life
Waste of the world
Kadir van Lohuizen’s waste project now on view in Amsterdam
Challenge winners are actually helping refugees
On World Refugee Day an update on the WDCD Refugee Challenge finalists
‘WDCD will bring Mexico new ways of thinking’
Interview with Javier López Casarín, founder of the Reinventing Mexico Foundation
Plastic cups are solid gold
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Towards a more circular solution for serving drinks at events
Establish change from within
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Think Different And Just Do It
‘But I already have green energy, right?’
WDCD Live Amsterdam report: Workshop It’s my CO(2)
Better local understanding of a global problem
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Clean Energy Design Jam
‘If you want to go far, move together’
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Climate Action Challenge Demo Day
10 guidelines to design for a better planet
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Planet-centric digital design
Visions on how circularity can rebrand cities
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Designing a (Circular) Leidse Square
Can the health system support the health care needs?
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Resetting Your Health Care Mindset
60 minutes to save the world
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Reframing the Anthropocene
How to make teenagers care about sustainability?
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Transformative Experience Design
To see is to understand white privilege
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 Report: Workshop The Colour White
‘We need solutions that help us become cyclists’
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Freitag. Creating guiding principles for lasting impact