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CODA Award for Guto Requena’s Dancing Pavilion
Interactive façade of dance club reflects the mood of the dancing crowd

Decision day for the nominations
WDCD Climate Action Challenge enters next round; nominations on show during Dutch Design Week

Inscrições de 70 países, de muitas partes do mundo
“O nível dos inscritos é bem alto”

Entries from 70 countries, many from the global south
‘Quality of entries for the WDCD Climate Action Challenge is very high’

Em três semanas começaremos o primeiro agrishelter!
Projeto aperfeiçoado de abrigo de emergência sustentável está pronto para ser implementado

Projetos brilhantes entre 384 inscrições
WDCD Climate Action Challenge recebeu inscrições de todas as partes do mundo!

Estamos totalmente surpresos com os resultados
O arquiteto Marko Brajovic conta os resultados do Workshop de Arquitetura Flutuante na Amazônia

E OS VENCEDORES SÃO…
Veja os 5 finalistas do WDCD Refugee Challenge

Lots of brilliant projects among 384 entries
WDCD Climate Action Challenge draws submissions from all corners of the world

‘In three weeks we start building the first real AGRIshelter’
Improved design of sustainable emergency shelter now ready for implementation

Ocean farmers create jobs and feed communities
GreenWave offers a sustainable alternative to industrial fishing

‘We were absolutely surprised by the outcome’
Biomimicry research as part of floating architecture workshop

‘We are on track to become a healthy social enterprise’
The WDCD Refugee Challenge update 2: Makers Unite

Do we need resilient car design?
With half a million cars ready for the scrapyard in Houston alone we might want to think of adaptive mobility solutions

‘The current immigration system is entirely obsolete’
The WDCD Refugee Challenge update 1: The Welcome Card

Floods everywhere, we must act
From Houston to India, floods take thousands of lives

WDCD alumni and friends among Best Designs of the Year
Several projects with ties to What Design Can Do nominated in the Design Museum's Best Designs of the Year contest

Driving faster than the wind in your face
Seven student teams arrived in Den Helder for one of the four large sustainability races in the world

One month to go, but don’t wait till the last day
Already 500 users planning to enter projects to the WDCD Climate Action Challenge

Future of electric driving is made in Eindhoven
Amber Mobility, Lightyear.One and Lina flax car set to revolutionize carbon free mobility

Startup brings the farm into the supermarket
The Infarm team with an indoor farm unitInfarm develops range of tiny vertical farms for growing and selling fresh produce on the spot

‘Trump is a setback, but I’ve seen worse setbacks’
Al Gore can still see the positive side of things