Hope, resilience & people power at WDCD Live Amsterdam 2022
Highlights from our sold-out tenth edition in Amsterdam
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‘Graphic design can change how one sees the world’
Eddie Opara to speak at WDCD Live Amsterdam 2022
How to live—and build—in symbiosis with nature
Julia Watson to speak at WDCD Live Amsterdam 2022
Boost your creativity and deepen your activism
The changemaker's guide to WDCD Live Amsterdam 2022
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The creative entrepreneur’s guide to WDCD Live Amsterdam 2022
Your Summer Reading List by WDCD 2022
5 radical books to reframe your perspective
Cinema, and all the things climate can’t change
Josh Fox to speak at WDCD Live Amsterdam 2022
Fearless fashion on every and any gender
Adebayo Oke-Lawal to speak at WDCD Live Amsterdam 2022
On war, peace and the architecture of belonging
Marwa Al-Sabouni to speak at WDCD Live Amsterdam 2022
WDCD Live returns to Amsterdam on 3 June 2022
A one-day festival at the intersection of design, climate action & social justice
What sets a design festival apart in 2022?
5 things we’ve learned from our community
‘If you want to go far, move together’
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Climate Action Challenge Demo Day
‘We must rethink the way we design our world’
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Main stage, Day 1
Re-imagining African identity
Q&A with WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 speaker Sunny Dolat
‘To us, design means action’
Interview with Richard van der Laken, co-founder and creative director of What Design Can Do
The voice of the misrepresented
WDCD 2018 speaker Ahmed Shihab-Eldin on what drives him as a journalist
‘We must heal our cities with technology and love’
Q&A with WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 speaker Guto Requena
‘Design education is about critical thinking and experimentation’
Joel Towers, parting Executive Dean of Parsons School of Design, focused new curriculum on sustainable development and social engagement
Sunny Bergman makes us face our prejudices
Filmmaker and activist Sunny Bergman takes action as a consequence of her work
Better than meat
Vegetarian Butcher Jaap Korteweg links systemic change to economic success
‘No doubt that we need design to solve mankind’s problems’
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2017 marked the kick-off for a two-year exploration of the topic of climate action.
Learn from floating plants in the Amazon
Victor Affarosão Paulo based architect and WDCD speaker Marko Brajovic leads biomimicry workshop in the Amazon
Find inspiration in the marshes of Chibayish and the magic of feathers
Athenaeum recommends #1: Three magazines on rural life and nature
‘If things are bad, that’s good’
‘A terrible situation is a great opportunity to use design thinking,’ says Bruce Mau