The difference between appropriation & appreciation
Notes on power, identity and community from ‘Urgent Conversations on Earth Day’
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Urgent Conversations on Earth Day
An online event about design, climate action & ancestral knowledge
Making objects and queering spaces
Coolhuntermx celebrates women in Mexico's creative industries for #IWD2021
Clayre Coello & Carmen Serratos: weaving networks between women
Coolhuntermx celebrates women in Mexico's creative industries for #IWD2021
How New York City’s Armour is Being Transformed into Art
The Plywood Protection Project finds new use for boarded-up storefronts
Crisis Mapping the US Elections
Activists launch new platform to monitor violence across the USA
Viral Times: Broadcasting Untold Stories From the Slums
Chicoco Radio launches new media platform for artists & activists in Nigeria
Powerful prints for Beirut
This week's visual relief celebrates the best of the Beirut Editions art sale
No Place for Sex Trafficking
New program makes hotel rooms and holiday rentals safer for all
Cards for Humanity is an online tool for inclusive design
A new resource to help creatives build empathy and make better products
Decolonising Design
Anoushka Khandwala on what it means to decolonise design in the light of the mobilisation of the Black Lives Matter movement
Dezeen x WDCD: Urgent conversations on social justice in design
Three live talks about media power, decolonising design & gender equality
Shelterbags for South Africa’s homeless
New project to help people surviving COVID-19 on the streets
A Hand Signal for Help
Online campaign to support those experiencing violence in isolation
Gender equality, a central theme of WDCD México GNP 2020
A critical time for feminist activism in Mexico
Creative attack on the US-Mexico border wall by architect duo
The Teeter Totter Wall demonstrates the delicate balances between the two nations
Public prosecutors embrace No Minor Thing results
‘At least ten projects deserve to be developed further’
What was it like to participate in No Minor Thing?
Design teams share their experiences with the challenge
13 new approaches to fighting sexual exploitation of children
WDCD and partners present the outcomes of the No Minor Thing challenge
‘We need design to address sexual exploitation of minors’
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop No Minor Thing
Tricked into sexual exploitation
Public prosecutor reflects on WDCD’s new challenge on sexual exploitation of children
10,000 New Sheltersuits For The Homeless
Bas Timmer wants to provide Sheltersuits for all the refugees in Lesbos
New invitation-only challenge: No Minor Thing
Dutch Public Prosecutor’s Office joins forces with What Design Can Do to combat sexual exploitation of children
Dancing change into the court room
Design Academy graduate Dorota Gazy aims to bring humanity back in the justice system with the help of dancers