No Waste Challenge Nominees: Mexico City
Shortlist brings ideas to take recycling and composting to the next level
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No Waste Challenge Nominees: Nairobi
Shortlist champions circular strategies for better health and wellbeing
No Waste Challenge Nominees: São Paulo & Rio
Shortlist features everyday solutions for makers, home cooks and waste pickers
No Waste Challenge Nominees: Tokyo
Shortlist draws inspiration from ancient techniques to artificial intelligence
No Waste Challenge Nominees: Global
Shortlist includes fashion chains, foraging campaigns and a living coffin
85 promising ideas for a world beyond waste
Introducing the No Waste Challenge nominees
Past Challenge winners – where are they now?
See how 5 winners of WDCD Challenges continue to grow their impact today
No Waste Challenge receives a record-breaking 1409 entries
The global design competition now enters its selection phase
Urgent Conversations on Earth Day
An online event about design, climate action & ancestral knowledge
Taina Campos & Olga Rodríguez: making objects and queering spaces
Coolhuntermx celebrates women in Mexico's creative industries for #IWD2021
Haven’t we all been bad designers?
New campaign shares calls to action by Bruce Mau, Selly Raby Kane & more
In Indian society, repair is a dying skill
No Waste Challenge in Delhi: On frugality, sharing and craftsmanship
Clayre Coello & Carmen Serratos: weaving networks between women
Coolhuntermx celebrates women in Mexico's creative industries for #IWD2021
The link between waste & climate change, explained
Breaking down the mother of all environmental problems
Why waste is a socio-political issue
Making sense of the same storm, from very different boats
How bad design is driving the ‘take-make-waste’ economy
A closer look at all the ways that we can do better
No Waste Challenge is now open for submissions!
WDCD & the IKEA Foundation call for radical, design-driven solutions to waste
Looking back at the best of Design in Times of Corona
Our top stories of the year, as picked by our readers and editors
‘All my work has been cancelled. What now?’
Looking back at Designers for Designers, a coaching series for surviving the pandemic
Buy Nothing on Black Friday
And other ways to curb consumption this holiday season
The Smart App making Sao Paulo Cleaner and Safer
WDCDSP Interviews Clean Energy Challenge Winner Marcel Ogando from Milênio Bus
Style and sustainability for the new normal
Environmentally friendly masks with high impact on local economic activities
Dezeen x WDCD: Urgent conversations on social justice in design
Three live talks about media power, decolonising design & gender equality
How digital arts can solve the problem of socially distanced place-making
Exploring the role that digital arts can play for organisations based on live and tangible experiences