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Life-vests turned into refugee support flags
Makers Unite and Refugee Nation join forces to create both jobs and awareness for refugees
Rescue your leftover food with the Brinery
A modern interpretation of the forgotten process of food preservation
Mapping the toxicity of the world
New map by The Eco Experts visualise the best and the worst polluters in in the world
Industrial scars: The environmental cost of consumption
A book of photographs that combines beauty and horror to make a point
‘The Refugee Challenge has been a very uplifting experience’
Demo Day: Five finalists of WDCD Refugee Challenge showed how far they have come so far
Syrian refugee helps the poor in Amsterdam
Young Syrian programmer designs website with all available offers for people in need
‘To build with straw bales you need a wooden structural frame’
Young engineers of Arup joined the WDCD Refugee Challenge to make AGRIshelter reality
Here’s an after-movie that looks ahead too
Take a short look back at WDCD Live São Paulo 2016 and see what's up for Amsterdam Live 2017
INSPIRATIONAL FIGURES AT THE WDCD REFUGEE CHALLENGE GRAND FINALE
The programme on 7 March will include talks by humanitarian experts Goof van Dormolen and Willemijn Verloop
‘Climate action is about the survival of our civilization’
Creative director Richard van der Laken on WDCD Live’s new format and theme
Alternatives for an alternative platform
How a detour will help WDCD Refugee Challenge finalist Reframe Refugees to reach its goal
Investigating how the future city can feed itself
IKEA’s innovation lab SPACE10 researches self-sustaining urban food production
A nice meeting over chorba and guima
WDCD Refugee Challenge finalist Eat & Meet experienced the first test dinner in Paris
African design collection for IKEA
African designers to collaborate with IKEA's in-house team during upcoming Design Indaba conference
WDCD Refugee Challenge showcased in Taipei
Refugee Challenge exhibition and WDCD goodies part of 100 Years of Dutch Design exhibition in Taiwan Design Museum
Better Shelter selected Design of the Year
Design Museum London awards top prize to IKEA Foundation’s improved shelter
Makers Unite explores expanding to food production
In collaboration with IKEA's Space10 Makers Unite investigates sustainable food production in Social Living Labs
‘We want to become the ultimate rats’
Experience designer Nelly Ben Hayoun founds the University of the Underground to make social dreams come true
A card that tells refugees everything they want to know
The Welcome Card team has come a long way since the initial concept entered for the WDCD Refugee Challenge
WDCD Refugee Challenge works towards grand finale
Five finalist teams will present their business plans on 7 March in Amsterdam
Feeling the problem leads to the desire to solve it
WDCD Live São Paulo 2016 breakout session: generating deep empathy with victims of violence
Meeting with kindred spirits in São Paulo
WDCD speakers visited local studios and organizations in the wake of WDCD SP
Violence against femininity is a cultural issue
WDCD São Paulo 2016 breakout session searches for questions to address violence against women