‘Design is too important to leave to designers’
WDCD ambassador David Kester founds UK branch of Design Thinkers Academy
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Cucula works with, not for refugees
In the Berlin CUCULA workshop, refugees make and sell furniture designed by Enzo Mari
A coat that turns into a tent
RCA student project is among the first entries for the WDCD Refugee Challenge
Pictures for better understanding
ICOON offers refugees a tool for communication
‘The term migrants dehumanizes refugees’
Thought leader: Barry Malone, editor of Al Jazeera English
Integration goes best partying
Arts students start carnival association together with refugees
Refugees’ accounts tell the real story
One story from an individual refugee says more than a thousand pictures
Legal loopholes in work rules for refugees
Dutch designers find possibilities for asylum seekers to work despite rules
Phrasebook for refugees
Berlin volunteers compile phrasebook with basic sentences in different languages
A new approach to building for refugees
Cameron Sinclair's RE:BUILD is a re-deployable building system for displaced populations
Products to tell refugee’s stories
Studio Refugee matches designers and refugees for product design
Cucula works with, not for refugees
In the Berlin CUCULA workshop, refugees make and sell furniture designed by Enzo Mari
Encounters in a self-built living room
‘De Voorkamer’ introduces a social design method for integration
Refugees Welcome fights fear for room sharing
Flatshare website already operational in nine countries, 500 matches made
‘Displacement will mark this century’
Thought leader: Alexander Betts, Director of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford
‘Migration is essential to human survival’
Thought leader: Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development, University of Oxford
Refugia, a separate nation for refugees
Thought leader: Jason Buzi, American entrepreneur
‘Europe can easily receive millions of refugees’
Thought leader: Noam Chomsky, linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist
Floating media center gives communities a voice
Architect Kunlé Adeyemi on the backgrounds of amphibious Chicoco Radio Media Center in Port Harcourt
One Friday night dinner at V&A
Public dipped in dining experience by food designers honey & bunny
Bamboo bikes to support local communities
Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative empowers young entrepreneurs
Design is a tool to change things… Forever!
A zillion answers to our question 'What is design?'
Another day of exchange
WDCD and São Paulo prove to be a match made in heaven
Challenge: What Design Can Do for Refugees
What Design Can Do & IKEA Foundation announce global design challenge to help refugees