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Kaori Akiyama & Shubhi Sachan on everyday materialities
6 questions with the founders of Studio Bycolor & Material Library of India
‘It feels like closing a loop’
Past winners Emy Bensdorp & Loreta Castro on the Redesign Everything Challenge
Fostering youth participation with Next Gen Design
Five European design platforms launch ambitious new collaboration
Announcing the Redesign Everything Talks
A new circular design event series with Amsterdam’s Pakhuis de Zwijger
Open call: How can social designers spark cultural participation for climate awareness?
Inspiring climate awareness community projects
Building better with less
5 inspiring initiatives to reduce and refuse
7 resources to level up your circular design game
Podcasts, books and classes to inspire design for social and climate justice
The Purposeful Gift Guide
12 gift ideas for the conscious creative
Communicating through roots
Studio Ne+ on designing with ancient Egyptian crafts and heritage
Celebrating 10 circular design pioneers with Secrid
Highlights from our visit to Dutch Design Week 2023
‘Memberful design is about creating a sense of belonging’
Harald Dunnink on cultivating calm, unbreaking news and starting fires
‘We can use digital technologies to stimulate empathy’
Guto Requena on love, urban design and Queer Eye Brazil
Time and nature take the spotlight in 2022
Our top stories of the year, as picked by our readers and editors
A matter of style over substance
Deepika Srivastava on how mainstream media writes about design
Taina Campos on sisterhood, tamales & tomorrow’s materials
Exploring the potential of local biomaterials in Mexican design
The Plastic Elephant in the Room
Is it time to retire the most widely-used piece of furniture in the world?
‘Climate action requires extraordinary collaboration’
The Creative Climate Collective on what they learned at COP27
Designing the new utopia & dystopia
How to envision more positive climate futures
Meet the next generation of Dutch product-makers
Plant power & circular materials take centre stage at Secrid Talent Podium
The Creative’s Guide To COP27
How to take part in the biggest climate change conference of the year
Meet the ‘plastic revolutionaries’ of Kenya and Uganda
African artivists take on plastic pollution with their communities
Anticipating the future at Dutch Design Week 2022
6 things you don’t want to miss from this year’s programme
Spinning yarns with blood
Shahar Livne on the links between design, ecology and forgotten materials