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‘We are on track to become a healthy social enterprise’
While all our focus is on climate change these days, we haven’t forgot our five finalists…
While all our focus is on climate change these days, we haven’t forgot our five finalists…
Designing Activism was a workshop moderated by Emilie Tromp and included presentations by Tijmen Swaalf (Bits…
The man in yellow has turned red. What Design Can Do’s founder and creative director Richard…
Design research company STBY teams up with WDCD to research the theme of ‘violence against women’.…
It has been a while since we announced the five winners of the WDCD Refugee Challenge,…
While the Lebanese contribution to the first London Design Biennale was awarded the medal for best…
Originating from reflections on the spatial and social circumstances of basic care provisions for refugees, Austrian…
In collaboration with the Design Hub in Kampala (Uganda) the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA)…
‘The definition of design is broadening as we know it – it’s grown from something literal…
Petra Stienen, arabist and author, former diplomat in the Middle East, joins the international jury of…
It’s done, the public vote for the WDCD Refugee Challenge has ended. Today the committee of…
What Design Can Do against taboos around violence. That’s the key question in a student project…
‘What we hope to achieve is an improvement, however small, to the lives of millions of…
You may have noticed that we renewed our site (still working on it!) and we have…
‘Fortunately, we are beginning to see a great deal of adaptation of human-centered methods into political…
Next week Dutch journalism production company Prospektor will launch an interactive transmedia project entitled ‘De Asielzoekmachine’ (The…
As part of our new video series for the WDCD #RefugeeChallenge, we spoke to the Dutch…
‘What is design?’ we asked the audience of What Design Can Do São Paulo, this Monday…
Today, 50 per cent of the world population lives in a city. With some growing exponentially…
Though the plight of refugees and problems of cities grabbed the headlines at What Design Can…
‘To create, one must first question everything,’ architect working in the humanitarian field and eternal optimist…
What Design Can Do! is preparing an international design challenge intended to involve the creative community…
Five years of What Design Can Do have shown what design is capable of in numerous…
‘The most powerful social media is not the Internet, not Facebook. It is food. Food connects…