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Sitopia: Carolyn Steel on rebuilding our lives through food
Understanding food's true value post-lockdown
Initiatives for waste collectors
Protecting Brazil's most vulnerable with soap and a crowdfunded basic income
The Rise Of The Sidewalk
Physical spaces for interaction, exchange and expression – designing the 1.5 meter society
Five WDCD talks on architecture
Ideas from the archives that could help us rethink our lives on the other side
Visual Relief By Max Kisman
This weeks visual relief is the work of illustrator / designer / artist Max Kisman
Bompas & Parr forecasts post-coronavirus trends
A fresh perspective of the ‘new normal’ we’re heading for
Architecture’s response to the pandemic
The architectural trade is showing their resilience, improvisation skills and adaptability
Visual Relief by Dadara
This week's visual relief is brought to you by Dutch multidisciplinary artist Daniel Rozenberg
Bread on Earth
Using bread’s potential as a social, political, economic, and ecological barometer
Design for distance
How will we design public space post duct-tape-markings?
Design trade organizations to the rescue
Valuable advice for designers and entrepreneurs on how to survive the crisis
Give a Sheet? These designers do
Turning toilet paper into a canvas to raise money for WHO's Covid-19 fund.
Visual Relief
A weekly column by Gorilla Collective on Covid-19
New flat-pack recovery units for doctors and patients
Cameron Sinclair joins humanitarian startup JUPE HEALTH
Michael Johnson on coping in downturn
“All of a sudden, we're dealing with a new and thorny problem – irrelevance.”
SymptoTrack maps untested COVID-19 cases
Volunteers from three Dutch internet design and development agencies develop an open-source platform to track the spread of infections
Neighbours helping neighbours
From the community: a message from Brooklyn, New York
Global Call to creatives
The United Nations turns towards designers and creatives for fresh and innovative ideas in the fight against the corona pandemic
Clear Skies
A visual record of the drop in air traffic
How 3D printing comes to the rescue
German network of companies, institutions and research institutes pushes 3D-printed applications for professional use
Join a design challenge
Four design challenges that ask for inspiration, designs and smart solutions
Watch the virus spread
Infographics on the pandemic