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The news as if you were there
Immersive journalism uses virtual reality to let people experience news events
When vegetables start to talk
Vegetables tell their own story in Japanese supermarket
Isolated children in hospital want to play too
KonneKt lets isolated children in hospital play with their peers
A lot of bang with a bing
WDCD2015 / Short report of the hilarious breakout with Sam Bompas on ether
‘The fear of being naive is completely overvalued’
WDCD2015 / VBAT Meet Market with Stefan Sagmeister talking about Urban Issues and other things
Happiness is in the senses
WDCD2015 / Report part 4: What Design Can Do for the Senses
‘In the city we need design to help us out’
WDCD2015 / Report part 3: What Design Can Do for Urban Issues
‘Designers can inhabit people’s minds with images’
WDCD2015 / Report part 2: What Design Can Do for Cultural Consciousness
‘Designer must live the context he is designing for’
WDCD2015 / Report part 1: What Design Can Do for Humanity
‘Designer’s influence calls for a moral code’
WDCD2015 / Design critic Jeroen Junte launches Designer’s Oath at WDCD
‘Design really can make a difference’
WDCD2015 / Two days on the impact of design
Heavenly soup and God in a punch bowl
WDCD2015 / Joint event WDCD and Stedelijk Museum brings Amazon to Amsterdam
Five years, one book, 31 ideas
WDCD2015 / Book to celebrate the best of five years of WDCD
WDCD announces international design challenge
WDCD2015 / Celebrating the fifth edition of WDCD
Design like you give a damn
WDCD2015 / A call to designers: help refugees, do something
‘Get rich at heart, or die trying’
WDCD2015 / Interview with co-founder and director Richard van der Laken on five years of WDCD
Brian Roy to train We Are Here FC
Football team of rejected asylum seekers leads the way in design project
A film-filled weekend
Don't forget: What Film Can Do!, two days of films on the impact of design
Kill flies with Al Gore
Nothing brings out a designer’s humour quite like the fine art of fly swatting
Eat Shit and be most influential
Fast Company reckons eating designer Marije Vogelzang among most influential creative
Blue waves over Amsterdam
Artwork Waterlicht by Daan Roosegaarde visualizes Dutch vulnerability for water
‘With numerical imagery we’d have complete power’
Thomas Knoll recalls the birth of Adobe’s Photoshop 25 years ago
Shape-changing desk thinks with you
MIT graduate and researcher Viirj Kan developed the adaptive desk TRANSFORM