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How design took shape in 2021
Our top stories of the year, as picked by our readers and editors
Yinka Ilori brings joy to a basketball court
London-based artist designs a colourful public court for Canary Wharf
‘Designers of the People’ help small businesses to readjust
Creatives from 18 countries dedicate part of their time to voluntarily help local businesses
A mural for your thoughts
Can supergraphics counter the effect air pollution has on our health?
Help build these emancipating design initiatives
Support a design school in Palestine and a design bag made by newcomers
Redesigned ostomy bags and fertilizer made from urine
A random pick of projects from the Dutch Design Week
Branding Toolkit helps social entrepreneurs
‘Brand the Change’ by Anne Miltenburg aims at change makers and disruptors
10,000 New Sheltersuits For The Homeless
Bas Timmer wants to provide Sheltersuits for all the refugees in Lesbos
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
Impact grants for two social design start-ups
Young designers with their concept made during a DesignathonLand Life Company and Designathon Works receive funding from Expo 2020 Dubai
Waterless loo improves lives in Madagascar
Loowatt toilet with biodegradable film system|Loowatt's digester in use in Madagascar’s capital AntananarivoLoowatt provides Madagascans with both sanitation and energy and could be an alternative in the West too
Watch the video and bring light to a child in Mali
Cyclus campaign by Arjowiggins and Antalis teams up with Childfund Alliance to provide families in Mali with solar lamps
Syrian refugee helps the poor in Amsterdam
Young Syrian programmer designs website with all available offers for people in need
‘We want to become the ultimate rats’
Experience designer Nelly Ben Hayoun founds the University of the Underground to make social dreams come true
37 design visions on utopia
Eclectic collection of design projects at London Design Biennale
A design museum in the slums
Design Museum Dharavi was set up to explore the social impact of design on informal settlement community
Haiti eco-shelter first set up in museum
ECOnnect shelter is one of the eye-catchers in Dream Out Loud exhibition in Amsterdam
Social Furniture to stimulate contact and cooperation
Vienna design agency makes easy-to-make furniture designs available for everyone
Design as a tool for seduction
Nynke TrompSpeaker announcement: Nynke Tromp, assistant professor Social Design & Behaviour Change
More big companies among INDEX: Award finalists
Nobel prize for design draws 1,123 nominations from 73 countries
Brian Roy to train We Are Here FC
Football team of rejected asylum seekers leads the way in design project
Gimme shelter
Design the swiftest way to get help to disaster victims
‘Some call it resilience, I call it common sense’
Cameron Sinclair speaks out on what should be done in Nepal